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Thomas Paine

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

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

12 January - RSS SnapShot Pt 1

 

IPS - Inter Press Services

  • GREECE: As Austerity Bites, Police Get More Brutal
    "The most terrifying thing is the memory loss. I can't recall anything after I was knocked out - and for a long time afterwards," says Nasos Iliopoulos. His features are tense as he narrates his violent altercation with riot police.
  • CLIMATE CHANGE: ‘Water Towers of Asia' Show ...
    A concerted effort to formally document the magnitude and directions of climate trends in the Eastern Himalayas and thereby decide regional adaptation strategies is critical to ensure the region's water security, according to water experts.
  • VIETNAM: Communists Gag the Web
    By clamping down on the Facebook.com social networking service, Vietnam's ruling Communist Party is revealing its discomfort with the rapidly expanding avenue for free expression even as it pushes to transform the once poor agrarian nation into a modern industrial society by 2020.
  • US: EcoATMs Swap E-waste for Cash
    It's hardly news that the U.S. love affair with electronic gadgets has a dark side. The global toll on natural resources and the potential health and environmental hazards are staggering.
  • South Sudan Voters Die in Ambush
    At least 11 more people have been killed in violence over southern Sudan's historic referendum, officials have said.

Scoop - NZ

  • Politics Key To Success in Good Conversation – Sur ...
    Prime Minister John Key is the man Kiwis would most like to ring in the New Year with, according to new research. The finding was released today as part of the Mud House Wine Survey* – an independent study which looked at New Zealanders’ attitudes towards the consumption of wine. Almost one in ...
  • New Research Says Kiwi Women Should Grow Old Grace ...
    Kiwi women want to ‘grow old gracefully’ rather than attempt to turn back the clock with cosmetic procedures – according to a new study. The findings were released today as part of the Olay Regenerist Survey* – an independent study which looked at New Zealand women’s attitudes towards cosmetic su ...
  • Towards a written British constitution
    Views are being sought by January 10th on a document being described by some as the first step towards a British codified constitution. The 150-page draft cabinet manual, drawn up on 14 December, aims to set out how the UK is governed.
  • Youth jobless rate hits 19.4%
    New Zealand's youth unemployment rate has surged to nearly 20 per cent – one of the highest levels in almost 20 years. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) figures for the September quarter last year showed 19.4 per cent of Kiwis aged between 15 and 24 were unemployed – ...
  • The Hobbit and New Zealand's heritage industry
    We are accustomed to think of movies as part of our leisure activities rather than terrains on which political battles are enacted. However, in a highly commercialised globe that has turned image and sound into pathways to political inclusion and global recognition, films have become politicized are ...

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

  • Could the U.S. central bank go broke?
    The U.S. Federal Reserve's journey to the outer limits of monetary policy is raising concerns about how hard it will be to withdraw trillions of dollars in stimulus from the banking system when the time is right.
  • Algorithms Take Control of Wall Street
    Last spring, Dow Jones launched a new service called Lexicon, which sends real-time financial news to professional investors
  • 'Unabomber' lawyer sought for Tucson gunman
    A 22-year-old man described as a social outcast with wild beliefs steeped in mistrust faces a federal court hearing on charges he tried to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in a Tucson shooting rampage that left six people dead.
  • Dem plans bill banning use of threatening imagery ...
    In the wake of the tragic Arizona shooting, Rep. Bob Brady (D-PA) says he plans to introduce a bill criminalizing the use of certain forms of threatening imagery against lawmakers and judges.
  • Stock market plunge sparks protests in Bangladesh
    Bangladesh suspended trading at its main stock exchange Monday and security officials used batons to disperse thousands of angry investors upset over a market plunge.

Innovation Canada

  • The year in review
    Welcome to 2011! Before we launch into a new year of covering cutting-edge Canadian research, we’re going to rewind and look back at some of the success stories we featured on InnovationCanada.ca in 2010.  Some recurring themes in Canadian research this year were: biodiversity, aboriginal culture, a ...
  • Celebrating Arctic research
    When you turn 50, there’s a tendency to sit back and celebrate your accomplishments. But some 50-year-olds prefer to be bold and try new things. Such is the case for the University of Alberta’s Canadian Circumpolar Institute (CCI). Between building university-degree programs in the North and finding ...
  • The bright side of E. coli
    Mention the Escherichia coli bacterium, or E. coli, and many people immediately get anxious. After all, certain strains of E. coli, typically ingested through undercooked ground beef, have been associated with cases of severe diarrhea, kidney failure and even death. But a group of undergraduate stud ...
  • Getting to the root of HIV
    Daily, neurologist Chris Power at the University of Alberta in Edmonton boards an elevator in the lobby of the Heritage Medical Research Centre, gets off on the sixth floor and strolls down the corridor to a nondescript, but world-class, level-three-security biosafety laboratory (BSL-3). No one is g ...
  • When good stress turns bad
    Everyone experiences stress, whether it’s dealing with day-to-day annoyances, such as traffic jams or machines that just won’t work, or with truly life-altering events, such as the death of a loved one, a divorce or the loss of a job. Whatever the trigger, the initial response by the body and the br ...

Signs of the times

  • Minnesota, US: Baby Girl Born at 1:11 a.m. on 1/11 ...
    St. Paul - It's one for the record books. A lot of ones, that is. A Minnesota woman gave birth at exactly 1:11 a.m. on Tuesday - Jan. 11, 2011. That's 1-11-2011. Amy Zeller and Codjo Mensah of Eagan welcomed their daughter, Flora Mensah, at United Hospital in St. Paul. Zeller tells KARE-TV that ...
  • Remembrances of Lives Past
    "The popular purveyors of reincarnation belief these days are not monks or theologians, but therapists - intermediaries between science and religion who authenticate irrational belief." writes Lisa Miller in her New York Times article on how belief in reincarnation has gone mainstream and can now ...
  • High doses of common painkillers increase stroke r ...
    British Medical Journal study links ibuprofen to highest risk of stroke over long term Commonly used painkillers increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes when taken at high doses or over the long term, according to research. Experts analysed more than 30 clinical trials on more than 116,000 ...
  • Australia: Disaster in Brisbane as water keeps com ...
    Brisbane residents have been told it is not too late to evacuate as a once-in-a-century flood threatens 20,000 homes tonight. More than 50 suburbs are expected to be flooded when the Brisbane River hits an expected peak of 5.2 metres at about 4:00am on Thursday. Already thousands of people have be ...
  • SOTT FOCUS: Change is Good! What it means...
    We've already received some interesting feedback from readers about the changes on the SOTT page. It seems that there is some real confusion by the change of focus. For example, one reader wrote: I am extremely sad to see that your coverage on the Levant is gone ? any reason were u bought out, ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Happy New Year!
    HAPPY NEW YEAR! The infinity figure? That's called an analemma. It's a 37-shot composite. You can find out what it's about at Astronomy Picture of the Day. All the best for 2K11.
  • They keep on trying . . .
    ACCORDING TO THE INDEPENDENT'S Tony Paterson, in his article, "Five suspects arrested over Danish cartoon 'massacre plot'", there are members of the Umma who are still plenty chuffed over the Mo cartoons, five years after their publication. Jakob Scharf, the head of Denmark's intelligence service, t ...
  • Feel-good stories of the holidays
    Via the always terrific Mock, Paper, Scissors we read of a health clinic in California that took the high road to helping the poor this Christmas. Christmas in that neck of the woods just got a lot merrier. Hurrah for Pierre Karl Peladeau! Kinda reminds me of the last time Saddam Hussien was electe ...
  • A trial of two academies
    1. The University of Manitoba.� A math professor and academic prodigy at the UofM sues the university and finds himself suspended over protesting what he felt was the illegitimate awarding of a PhD to a 3rd party given that party had failed one of their comprehensive exams twice after an acknowledge ...
  • Seriously, folks . . .
    Medicine for melancholy.

Media Matters for America

  • Fox Now Embraces Obama's Call To Avoid "Jumping To ...
    In the context of the Arizona shooting, Fox News is now citing President Obama's call following the shooting at Fort Hood in 2009 to avoid "jumping to conclusions" about the causes behind the attack. However, following the Fort Hood shooting, Fox personalities immediately called for profiling of Mu ...
  • Beck Stokes Fears Of "A Ban On Guns" Following AZ ...
    On his Fox News show, Glenn Beck claimed that lawmakers are considering "a ban on guns" in light of the recent shooting in Tucson, Arizona. Beck has previously stoked fears that the government or President Obama "will slowly but surely take away your gun or take away your ability to shoot a gun, ca ...
  • Beck's Pledge: A Coded Attack On Obama
    In the aftermath of the tragic shooting in Tucson, Arizona, Glenn Beck has issued what he claims is a pledge denouncing violence. But as the language of that pledge makes clear, it is little more than the same attacks on President Obama that Beck has engaged in for the past two years.Beck's "Challe ...
  • REPORT: Media Ignore Rep. Issa's Alleged Criminal ...
    Rep. Darrell Issa's past includes arrests for weapons charges and auto theft, suspicions of arson, and accusations of intimidation with a gun, but you'd hardly know it from the media's recent coverage of the new chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. While Issa was substan ...
  • In Wake Of Arizona Shooting, Beck Backs Off Claim ...
    Responding to criticism of violent political rhetoric in the wake of the tragic shooting in Arizona, Glenn Beck ridiculed the notion that "spirited debate" leads to violence, asking rhetorically whether, because he is "enemy number one of Barack Obama," the president "wants me dead." In fact, Beck ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • The Market and Inequality: Progressives Lose When ...
    Paul Krugman joined a debate on the morality of markets, arguing that the United States has not met the fundamental condition of equality of opportunity that libertarian conservatives agree is necessary for fairness. While this is true (only in loon tune land does a kid growing up in Anacostia have ...
  • What To Say?
    Before stepping into this thicket, I'll begin by reviewing the apparent ground rules for discussing political rhetoric and whether it has anything to do with the tragedy in Tucson. The acts of a mentally unbalanced man bear no connection to the political climate around him. Once you draw any such co ...
  • The Right and the Shooting in Tucson
    It appears that Arizona is ground zero in a right-wing war against the democratic process. Rep. Giffords was on Sarah Palin's "target list" of twenty 2010 incumbents, a list which featured a graphic showing the crosshairs of a gun. Giffords' office was was one of those vandalized by the right-wi ...
  • Top Jewish Historian: Glenn Beck, Roger Ailes, Ant ...
    On Saturday night, CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked someone on the scene in Tucson if anti-Semitism played any role in Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' shooting. His response was "no." It is well known that Giffords is Jewish, but anti-Semitism per se did not seem to be a contributing factor in the shooting of ...
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TruthOut

  • Nine Years Later: The Political Prisoners of Guant ...
    Political prisoners? Surely, that can't be right, can it? Surely, it's only dictatorships in far-flung corners of the world who hold political prisoners, and not the United States of America? Sadly, no. As the "War on Terror" prison established by President Bush begins its tenth year of operations, ...
  • The Tax Deal's Biggest Losers: 40 Million Low-Wage ...
    On December 6, the President said "there is no reason that ordinary Americans should see their taxes go up next year." Apparently, the Administration staff who negotiated the deal found a reason.read more
  • Report Shows Rollback on Rights in China
    New York - A new report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) charges that China has largely failed to meet the commitments laid out in its first-ever National Human Rights Action Plan (NHRAP), introduced in 2009. The 67-page report, "Promises Unfulfilled: An Assessment of China's National H ...
  • We Welcome Our New Plutocratic Overlords
    Meet the new global elite. They're pretty much the same as the old global elite, only richer and more smug. read more
  • Is Lockheed Martin Shadowing You?
    Have you noticed that Lockheed Martin, the giant weapons corporation, is shadowing you? No? Then you haven’t been paying much attention. Let me put it this way: If you have a life, Lockheed Martin is likely a part of it. read more

Planetsave

  • Best Climate or Energy Humor of 2010
    Joe Romm of Climate Progress has a post up on the best climate and energy cartoons or other humor of 2010. Definitely worth a share. Here are few cartoons from the post as a teaser. More in the article and a ton more good ones in the comments. Enjoy! (I thought about compiling my own... Read More...
  • Coral Reefs See 2nd-Worst Year Ever in 2010
    We’ve covered coral bleaching, the devastation of coral reefs and their relationship to global warming here on Planetsave numerous times over the past few years. For clear reasons: this is a true global environmental catastrophe with numerous harmful ramifications. Dr Jeff Masters of WunderBlog delv ...
  • No Jobs? Obama Created More in 1 Year than Bush Di ...
    Yes, the ridiculous claim of Republicans (too many of them, at least) is that policies to address climate change and protect the environment we all need to live would kill jobs and hurt the economy. Well, really, where is the proof? Here’s a look at job losses with Bush as president and job losses a ...
  • The Linkage between Energy Use and Economic Growth
    A new study published in the January issue of the journal BioScience has found a strong correlation between global energy use and economic growth. The research has led the authors to infer that energy use limits economic activity directly, and that an “enormous” increase in energy supply will be nec ...
  • Glacier Melt Will Contribute 12 Centimetres to Sea ...
    A new study published in the most recent edition of the journal Nature Geoscience has shown that meltwater from small mountain glaciers and ice caps will contribute anywhere between seven and eighteen centimetres to world sea level rise by the year 2100. The largest of these contributors will be the ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Illinois death penalty ban sent to Gov. Pat Quinn ...
    SPRINGFIELD --- A historic measure to abolish the death penalty in Illinois passed the state Senate today after nearly two hours of impassioned debate. The ban on executions goes to Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn, who must sign the legislation for it to become law. During last fall's campaign, Quinn s ...
  • First we get rid of the fatties - Featured
    There has been a fresh round of articles appearing recently concerning world population, suggesting that journalists may have grown tired finally of writing/worrying/bullshitting about climate change. Indeed, Google Trends indicates that articles on population growth have doubled since 2008. Appa ...
  • Empire of Bases 2.0. Does the Pentagon Really Have ...
    The United States has 460 bases overseas!  It has 507 permanent bases!  What is the U.S doing with more than 560 foreign bases?  Why does it have 662 bases abroad?  Does the United States really have more than 1,000 military bases across the globe?     In a world of statistics and.. ...
  • Wikileaks' Julian Assange 'fears US death penalty' ...
    Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who published leaked US diplomatic cables, fears he could face the death penalty in the US, defence documents say. He is fighting extradition from the UK to Sweden over allegations, which he denies, of sexual offences against two women. His lawyer said there ...
  • FABIÁN ESCALANTE ON POSADA AND OPERATION 40 - Cri ...
    This article was originally published in Axis of Logic on May 11, 2005. Editor's Note: It has recently been our pleasure to meet Jean-Guy Allard, well known journalist and writer who lives in Havana, Cuba. As with so many of our friends and colleagues, we met Jean-Guy through correspondence, draw ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Decent Thing For Palin To Do Would Be To Retire Fr ...
    No, she didn't shoot anything, at least nothing with any more civil rights than a moose has. But last year she had a map of 20 congressional districts with "crosshairs" over them, and one of them was the district of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., now recovering from being gravely wounded by a gun ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    "She has no right to look this good, but she does." "Doctors taking care of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords say her condition is essentially unchanged, which is a hopeful sign. ... "I'm happy to tell you she's holding her own," neurosurgeon G. Michael Lemole said in a press conference Tuesday from Universit ...
  • More of Puerco's Simple Criticisms
    By way of Huffpo and Howard Fineman: Rush Bails Water In Wake Of Arizona Shooting Nothing hateful here, nosiree Bob! �Just good old Pigboy doing what he does best... exercising his right and fulfilling his duty. �That fat bastard could write the definitive textbook on hyperbolic hypocrisy. WASHINGT ...
  • The right's role in the Arizona massacre
    Some on the right are protesting their innocence and angrily proclaiming it terribly unfair to say their rhetoric in any way contributed to the weekend's violence. �Here is why they are wrong. Cross posted from Pruning Shears. No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postGlenn ...
  • Safety for me, but not for thee
    In August of 2009, when the hatred and fearmongering over healthcare reform reached a fever pitch, a man named William Kostric showed up at a presidential town hall meeting in Portsmouth, New Hampshire with a gun strapped to his thigh. He stood on church property near the high school where the meeti ...

Care 2

  • An Important Update on IV Vitamin C
    After our Action Alert on the FDA�s move against intravenous vitamin C, a number of rumors have sprung up. Today we want to sort through the confusion.Submitted by Carrie Burton to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Scientists monitor 'first direct evidence' of thun ...
    It was once the preserve of Star Trek and other science-fiction television shows.But scientists looking at thunderstorms through a telescope have now picked up on antimatter clouds being blasted into space from Earth. Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Nigel Barker and Chefs for Seals Call for Canadian ...
    Nigel Barker is the face of Chefs for Seals, an organization of chefs and restaurateurs committed to ending the seal hunt. Yesterday, a Chefs for Seals event in Los Angeles, co-hosted by Barker and chef Cat Cora, brought out celebs and chefs to promoteSubmitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! � ...
  • China's human rights 'action plan' short on any ac ...
    China's National Human Rights Action Plan of the the past two years amounts to 'a series of unfulfilled promises,' Human Rights Watch says in a review of the plan's impactSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • RSPCA Queensland Flood Appeal
    RSPCA Qld is calling for donations that can be used to purchase pet, livestock and wildlife supplies in areas affected by the current flood crisis.Submitted by Ginger Geronimo to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Sara Palin, Slap that Cunt Bitch
    Yeah, that’s right. Sarah Palin is guilty of hate speech. She’s a moron. She’s ignorant. She’s got the blood of Arizona on her hands. Also she loves the rich and hates the poor. Don’t believe me? Just ask the Rosie’s–O’Donnell and Barr: What people like Palin need to learn is that we need to be [... ...
  • 01.11.11 Open Thread
    For all of of us open thread aficionados, here’s tonight’s, squeezed between two very hot posts … … by Reverend Amy and Mssr. Johnson, the bad-boy, brilliant writer of irony and satire. Tonight, I’d like to point you to David Brook’s op-ed on the Tucson shootings in The New York Times: “The Politici ...
  • “Scurrilous”
    That is the word Dr. Charles Krauthammer used to describe the attempt by the left to blame Sarah Palin and the Tea Party for the horrible tragedy in Tucson, an action carried out by a mad man. It seems rather an appropriate term, not just for their unfounded claims, but for some of the claims [...]
  • Rejecting the premise
    There’s an old strategy in politics, one that we should all learn, and that’s to “reject the premise of the question.” When a politician is asked a pointed or challenging question, if the politician answers it, then the veracity and rightness of the question is affirmed. The strategy is to simply di ...
  • Homicidal Maniacs and their Immature Apologists
    Sheriff Clarence Dupnik’s words about the “climate” in AZ set off a “national discussion” about what causes nutjobs to act on their nutjobbery. Well, that was a little glib, but we have all been dealing with the “discussion” ever since – exactly whom is to blame depends on one’s political outlook un ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Most Incredible Images of the Northern Lights
    These are 10 of the best Aurora Borealis photographs that were taken in 2010 and posted to Flickr. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Does Deuterium in Our Drinking Water Pose a Health ...
    Deuterium, otherwise known as heavy water, is found in naturally occurring water, including springs, streams, aquifers and our municipal water. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 6 Nursery Rhymes With Sinister Origins
    Torture and animals being cooked alive aren't what most parents consider good bedtime story subjects. Yet they have been loved for centuries in nursery rhymes. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • Finding Vegan Alternatives to Soy
    A few vegan alternatives to soy, dairy and meat. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Amazing Navigational Skills of the Leatherback ...
    Leatherback turtles' amazing odyssey is achieved by traveling in a straight line with incredible navigation. But how does it work? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Seize the Year!! It's ours!! Now with Fractal Ante ...
    The last piece of litter I noticed in 2010 was a Four Loko can by the Hiawatha Franklin station. Had a nice New Years roundabout. Basement foursquare. Bonsai tree, Heatbox. Cabooze. Loud basement jamming. Wookiefoot. Igorrr. Stranvisky Conducts Firebird And the new Fractal microwave cloaking dev ...
  • Russia & China not buying BIS Fractional Reserve G ...
    A bit of Xmas cheer pushin back against LA school district police brutality: How a Google Engineer (and Reddit) Got a Teenager Out of Jail for Christmas Fiddlesticks: It's Over: Jason Rosenbaum: BREAKING: FCC breaks Obama's promise, allows corporate censorship online with fake Net Neutrality Previou ...
  • Robert Erickson: Featured Pic for Top 10 Political ...
    Friend of mine says this is still a running gag at her office six months later! :-D My mom is happy the Christmas tablecloth went a bit viral! Star Tribune featured the penny drop as the most photogenic political moment in Minnesota politics for 2010! The boring 2010 campaign season featured one hi ...
  • Metrodome collapse new video closeups panels rippi ...
    Is it Metrodome or Metropolis? No one was injured fortunately. New video closeups from the surveillance cameras posted - its a pretty clear sign of collapse eh? Part 1: Part 2 The damage could block DNC 2012, sure to cheer opponents of the convention. In a satirical press release Nature took credi ...
  • A New Week of Link Dump: Gnosis Whacks Gawker; Fed ...
    Before Wikileaks there wuz Hyperlinks: Lots of em. Let's lead off with the best thing in America: Prisoners Strike in Georgia - NYTimes.com. GO CHAMPS! Day 3 of Historic Prison Strike in Georgia-Blacked out By Media-Guards committing Violence Anyone can have a Tumbr hit! kim jong-il looking at thing ...

Daily Censored

  • 21st Century Segregation: Inverting King’s Dream
    Brian Jones has asked us to pause during the 2011 MLK Day to consider King’s reaction to the achievement gap that persists well into the twenty-first century, suggesting that education policy begun under George W. BushâNo Child Left Behind (NCLB)âand accelerated under Barack Obama works against King ...
  • Violent Gun Rhetoric Criticized in Wake of Assassi ...
    Gabrielle Giffords, a Democratic Congresswoman from Arizona, was shot in the back of the head by a 22 year old man named Lee Loughner. Six other people were also shot dead and eighteen others were injured. Representative Giffords is in critical condition, lying in a Tucson hospital. Former Alaskan G ...
  • What if they were Muslim?
    www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news Please Join us this powerful and liberating episode. This episode we will be paying particular focus on the horrific tragedy that recently occurred in the Tucson area of Arizona. Our sincere thoughts and condolences go out to the victims of the senseless terrori ...
  • Superman or Kryptonite?—Legend of the Fall, pt. V
    The celebrity tour continues, and this time it is Geoffrey Canada on The Colbert Report where celebrity reformer Michelle Rhee revealed her lack of historical perspective and expertise concerning education. Canada made his second appearance with Colbert, but this time he comes in as the face on the ...
  • Winning/Losing, You Decide.
    We were supposed to be out of Afghanistan this year.  Instead, we added 30,000 more soldiers to bring the troop level to 100,000+.  Now our timeline reads 2014.  For all the troops we have in Afghanistan, the only region that has seen progress is the South, where we have all of out troops.  Everywhe ...

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Institute for Policy Studies

  • Gun Crazy
    The NRA and the Pentagon are both addicted to guns, and they're both on a slippery slope.
  • The Age of Vulnerability
    How the 2008 financial crash redefined what it means to be economically vulnerable.
  • The Lineup: Week of January 10-16, 2011
    Jim Cason explains what's wrong with the unmanned drones the United States is deploying in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
  • A Lousy New Year for Workers
    General Motors executives could claim today that what's good for their company is good for the country if they referred instead to China.
  • No Ordinary Cross Hairs
    A neighbor though that Rep. Giffords' community event would be of interest to this young, budding public servant.

Equality Trust

  • Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
    A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details...
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    Don't forget to sign up to our email newsletter to receive quarterly updates about our work and next week's response from Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett to questions about the Spirit Level analysis.
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    Please visit our new Media section for the latest details.
  • VAT rise would hit the poorest
    Bill Wilson's VAT motion to the Scottish Parliament reads as follows: That the Parliament notes the warning issued by Save the Children in Scotland that raising VAT to 20% could mean a £31 a week bill for the poorest families in Scotland and that the poorest 10% of the population currently spend ...
  • Excessive pay and bonuses in public sector under s ...
    Daily Telegraph reports on bold moves in the public sector. But what about the private sector which originated the "crazy" bonus system and still leads the way on excessive top pay...?

PDA AMERICA

  • Video: Peak Oil and a Changing Climate
    Cross-posted from The Nation The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health, while warming the globe in the process. But beyond the damage ...
  • Peter B Collins: Final Podcast of 2010: Progress ...
    Listen to Podcast:  Click Here Prof. David Coates of Wake Forest University and Tim Carpenter of Progressive Democrats of America discuss the new political mix in Washington and offer advice on how to confront the challenges ...
  • You + PDA = Success
    Happy New Year! Friends, At this time of the year, our email boxes are overflowing with messages pronouncing how great a particular organization is, ticking off all the wonderful things that organization accomplished in the last year, ...
  • January 2011 Accountability and Justice IOT News
    January 2011 Accountability and Justice IOT News PDA Issue Organizing Team Accountability and Justice Conference Call https://www.thedatabank.com/dpg/309/mtglistproc.asp?formid=meet&caleventid=18964 When Wednesday, January 12, 2011 Time: 9:00 PM ET, 8:00 PM CT, 7:00 PM MT, 6:00 PM PT Note new ...
  • Put the fix on the Senate
    Help Us Make History on January 5 Dear Friend, The Senate is broken. A minority of 41 Republican Senators has virtually stopped reform in its tracks: • If Democrats try to pass something without Republican input, Republicans filibuster. • If Democrats ...

Marler Blog

  • Parnell hopes to move on, but what about the nine ...
    Bryan Gentry of the Lynchburg News and Advance stepped back into the Peanut Corporation of America Salmonella outbreak now coming up on the two-year anniversary of the announcement of the outbreak that sickened over 700 and killed nine with his article - "Parnell hopes to move on after Peanut Corp. ...
  • Sprouter's Northwest hit with Salmonella Lawsuit o ...
    We filed this Complaint in Kitsap County Superior Court this morning:
  • Jimmy John's switches from Alfalfa Sprouts to Clov ...
    According to one of my favorite online Ag magazines – The Packer - In response to a December outbreak of salmonella in the Midwest, Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches is dropping alfalfa sprouts from its menu in favor of clover sprouts — despite clover sprouts being the focus of another recall of sprou ...
  • Godstone Farm Petting Zoo in England Admits Liabil ...
    I have been following Fair and Petting Zoo Outbreaks for several years - http://www.fair-safety.com/ - so it really came as no surprise that Godstone Farm Petting Zoo admitted liability.  Last time I was in London I had a chance to meet with counsel for the injured children, and it seemed quite cl ...
  • Listeria monocytogenes and Staphylococcus aureus c ...
    Surtex Foods Co. says it is recalling its Oaxaca (wah-HAH'-kah) string cheese because it may be contaminated with a pair of bacteriums. The Los Angeles-based company said Monday that its "La Original" brand, which comes in a 17.63-ounce clear package could be susceptible to Listeria monocytogenes a ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 01.12.11
    Detroit 2011: Li-Ion motors says hello to first Wave sales, promises Inizio by mid-summer Double-check your facts before putting down your money. Detroit 2011: Johnson Controls unveils prismatic ie:3 elec ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.11.11
    Ford VP: Electric-drive models could account for 10-25% of sales by 2020 Think Blue Oval, think big. Detroit 2011: Toyota Prius V The V stands for volume (and "v"amily). ...
  • Detroit 2011: Toyota Prius family will grow with a ...
    Filed under: Concept Cars, Detroit Auto Show, Hybrid, Hatchback, Toyota Sprinkled around Cobo Hall this morning in the wee hours of the 2011 Detroit Auto Show, we discovered a number of promotional images from Toyota teasing the big Prius announcement that's coming later this afternoon. We don't ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.10.11
    Consumer Reports tests aging 2002 Prius Turns out, the car "retains its youth." As new Congress opens, Republicans disband global warming committee *Feigned shock* ...
  • Banned Four Loko energy drink recycled into ethano ...
    Filed under: Etc. Straight from the "Never Expected To See This" file is a story regarding plans for all those banned and discontinued cans of alcoholic energy drinks that were taken off the market late last year. Instead of bring poured on the ground in honor of all the parties that will forever ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Dr. Atul Gawande on Obama's 'Frustrating' Record o ...
    Renowned surgeon and author Dr. Atul Gawande discusses his frustrations with President Obama’s on healthcare reform, the ethical conundrums of learning and practicing medicine and his most recent book, The Checklist Manifesto. Part 1 of interview Part 2 of interview
  • Darrell Issa, Step Away From the Corporations
    Remember “freedom fries”? That’s what the House Republicans, when they were last in the majority, renamed french fries, after France refused to support the invasion of Iraq. It seems like renaming fries might be just about the extent of food regulation that some in Congress are willing to support. ...
  • Prisoners at Supermax Ohio Penitentiary Begin Hung ...
    Four prisoners in the supermax Ohio State Penitentiary have launched a hunger strike to protest what they call their harsh mistreatment under solitary confinement. The prisoners—Bomani Shakur, Siddique Abdullah Hasan, Jason Robb and Namir Abdul Mateen—were sentenced to death for their involvement i ...
  • A Special Message to our Facebook Fans from Amy Go ...
    As 2010 draws to a close, I want to thank you for watching Democracy Now! and for choosing a news source that’s committed to the truth. Five days a week, Democracy Now! delivers headlines directly to your Facebook page for free, keeping you and your friends up-to-date with the latest news from arou ...
  • ‘The Comeback Kid’ and the Kids Who Won’t
    President Barack Obama signed a slew of bills into law during the lame-duck session of Congress and was dubbed the “Comeback Kid” amid a flurry of fawning press reports. In the hail of this surprise bipartisanship, though, the one issue over which Democrats and Republicans always agree, war, was co ...

Digg Green

  • Earliest Known Winery Found in Armenian Cave ...
    In the same Armenian cave where the oldest known leather shoe was found, barefoot winemakers were likely stomping grapes 6,000 years ago.
  • Replacing Cattle With Edible Insects?
    Insects produce much smaller quantities of greenhouse gases per kilogram of meat than cattle and pigs. This is the conclusion of Dutch team of scientists at Wageningen University, who have joined forces with government and industry to investigate whether the rearing of insects could contribute ...
  • Be like Larry and Sergey: Google hosting onli ...
    Google is urging youths ages 13 to 18 to take part in a worldwide science fair that will be hosted by the search giant online.
  • Researchers Discover a Gram of Bacteria Can H ...
    Researchers have figured out that data can be stored in bacteria, and that a single gram of bacteria can store more information than a giant 900 terabyte hard drive! This storing and encrypting information in living organisms is called biostorage, and students at Hong Kong's Chinese University ...
  • Fermi Sees Antimatter-Hurling Thunderstorms ( ...
    NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected beams of antimatter launched by thunderstorms. Acting like enormous particle accelerators, the storms can emit gamma-ray flashes, called TGFs, and high-energy electrons and positrons. Scientists now think that most TGFs produce particle beams ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • CDC adjusts fluoride poisoning of America’s ...
    By Mike Adams The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) today issued a startling report that admits 2 in 5 children in America show signs of fluoride poisoning (streaking, spotting or pitting of teeth due to dental fluorosis). The agency concluded that fluoride levels need to be lowered in municipa ...
  • Scientists uncover truth about fluoride and other ...
    By Anthony Gucciardi, citizen journalist There have been numerous studies highlighting the adverse effects of water fluoridation and other drinking water contaminants, but a slew of new scientific findings have sparked even more opposition to these chemicals than ever before. Most shockingly, a stud ...
  • Mercury Exposure Makes People Go Nuts
    By Mark Sircus It is very interesting to note that that everyone is concerned in this video about green house gasses from coal fired plants but nothing is mentioned of the 50 tons of mercury that these plants put into the atmosphere each and every year in the United States alone. Coal plants put out ...
  • Aspartame exposed – GM Bacteria used to crea ...
    By  Anthony Gucciardi, citizen journalist The manufacturers of the most prevalent sweetener in the world have a secret, and it`s not a sweet one. Aspartame, an artificial sweetener found in thousands of products worldwide, has been found to be created using genetically modified (GM) bacteria. What`s ...
  • 2011 – The year when money starts to die
    by Alasdair Macleod We can expect the collapse in money values to be reflected in gold and silver prices rather than other paper currencies, and the warning signs are now upon us. Bullion has been climbing in value for a decade, and in 2010 buyers found it regularly difficult to get physical metal d ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Stop Monsanto Again–GM Alfalfa Threatens to Contam ...
    More info and opportunities to take action on GM Alfalfa.From Rodale: Genetically Engineered Alfalfa Could Be Growing in U.S. Fields by Spring From EatDrinkBetter: URGENT: Stop Monsantoâs GM Alfalfa From Food and Water Watch: Take Action: Ask President Obama to Protect Organic and Stop Monsanto’s GE ...
  • Fox News Serving Up Climate Skepticism
    Related Articles: From Ecopolitology: Fox News Editor Tampers with Climate Reporting: Where is Conservative Outrage Now? From ClimateProgress: National Journal: âThe GOP is stampeding toward an absolutist rejection of climate science that appears unmatched among major political parties around the gl ...
  • When I Was Your Age…
    View all of Joe’s political/environmental cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com Updates on Twitter at @GreenCartoons Related posts:Tea Party Actually Started by Two British Comedians (cartoon) Republican Energy Plan (cartoon) Election Day Cartoon Caption Contest Related posts:Tea Party Actually Starte ...
  • Monsanto Claus: A RoundUp-Resistant Christmas
    (To the tune of “The 12 Days of Christmas”) On the worst day of Christmas Monsanto Claus gave to me, six bucks per acre and toxic herbicides from some other company… Last year’s Monsanto Claus cartoon–“Monsanto Claus: Ho Ho Oh No!” …and the rest of my Monsanto-related cartoons. Follow on Twitter @Gr ...
  • WTF?! EPA Says RIP to Bee’s.
    EPA knowingly OK’s Bayer’s bee-killing pesticide. Related Links: The full Grist article whose text is in the cartoon. Wik-Bee Leaks: EPA Document Shows It Knowingly Allowed Pesticide That Kills Honey Bees The Bayer Kills Bees! website. (They also kill democracy!) Yep, that’s Bee from the environment ...

Inhabitat

  • Suoi Re Village Community House in Vietnam Built f ...
    Read the rest of Suoi Re Village Community House in Vietnam Built from Rammed Earth and Bamboohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable arc ...
  • Brooklyn Compost Company Vokashi Cleans Up Your Ki ...
    Here at Inhabitat, we've long praised the environmental benefits of composting, but we understand that the thought of rotting food or a worm bin in your kitchen can be a turn-off. But fear no more, eco-friends, Vokashi, a new Brooklyn composting company, is here to clean up your kitchen waste in an ...
  • Mobile Garden Project Brings Awareness to Lack of ...
    Displayed at Istanbul Design Week, the Mobile Gardens project was designed to bring attention to the current shortage of a green space in Istanbul. Turkish designer Gursan Ergil created a number of mini green areas complete with real grass, flowers, trees and garden structures made of reclaimed mate ...
  • Modular Sprig Lamp Transforms Into an Array of Eco ...
    The Sprig lamp is a clever design inspired by the growth of plants. Made from recycled plastic, each “sprig” of lamp can be transformed into a pendant light, or for a greater illumination, multiple sprigs can be stacked to build a floor lamp or arranged into a chandelier. The Sprig takes a standar ...
  • AEV Develops E-Shuttle Bus With Range Of 83 Miles
    Whether at transport hubs, large campuses or construction sites, shuttle buses play a key role in getting people to and from their destinations. And while many traditional buses run on fossil fuels, American Electric Vehicles (AEV) based in Colorado, has developed an e-shuttle bus – hey, if cars can ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Songbird’s Sex Horomone Surges at Sight of Flowers
    SALT LAKE CITY — As summer heats up, the sight of blooming thistles may give male goldfinches a testosterone kick. Thistle flowers could signal to American goldfinches that the seeds the songbirds prize for baby food and parent food will soon be abundant, proposes Thomas Luloff of the University ...
  • Lemur See, Lemur Do: Lower Primates Show Glimmer o ...
    Black-and-white ruffed lemurs can learn to do complex tasks simply by watching a fellow member of their troop. When researchers showed one lemur how to manipulate a simple snack machine, all other lemurs in its troop successfully performed the same trick on their first try. That lemurs can learn s ...
  • Ancient Mass Extinctions Hint at Possible Ocean Fu ...
    In sediment traces and fossil records from one of Earth’s most tumultuous periods, geologists have found a narrative linking mass extinctions with planetary biological and geological change. After dramatic oceanic extinctions 250 million and 200 million years ago, the global carbon cycle turned ch ...
  • Biggest-Ever Night Sky Image Released to Public
    SEATTLE — The Sloan Digital Sky Survey collaboration released the largest-ever digital color image of the sky today. The new image consists of 1.2 trillion pixels and covers a third of the night sky, capturing half a billion individual stars and galaxies. Every yellow dot in the image (above) is a ...
  • Thunderstorms Shoot Beams of Antimatter Into Space
    SEATTLE — Forget about gamma rays from the hearts of distant galaxies. Scientists now believe gamma rays, as well as beams of energetic particles of antimatter, are common components of lightning storms right here on Earth. In 2009, researchers announced that NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telesc ...

PakAlert

  • 14 Eye Opening Statistics Which Reveal Just How Dr ...
    Most Americans have become so accustomed to the "new normal" of continual economic decline that they don't even remember how good things were just a few short years ago. Back in 2007, unemployment was very low, good jobs were much easier to get, far fewer Americans were living in poverty or enrolle ...
  • Video: Insider Confirms Suspicions About the Elite ...
    MUST SEE! Absolutely fascinating interview with an insider who reveals the elite's plans and motive for culling the population, the laughable misdirection of the alternative media, the very serious manner by which mega-food companies control all the food, the fact that we must view space more as an ...
  • 8 Conspiracy Theories About Health The Mainstream ...
    Who knows more about health - the mainstream media or those that believe in "conspiracy theories"? Well, the truth is that time after time after time those in the "alternative media" and those who believe in "conspiracy theories" have been proven to be far ahead of those in the mainstream media when ...
  • War for the People, Profit for the Bankers
    The Federal Reserve was set up in 1913 to finance both sides of two subsequent world wars. In other words, these wars were funded by the credit of the US taxpayer. Apart from profiting from it , the Illuminati bankers use war to enslave us with debt, enact social change and consolidate their power ...
  • Top Ten Legal Drugs Linked to Violence
    When people consider the connections between drugs and violence, what typically comes to mind are illegal drugs like crack cocaine. However, certain medications — most notably, some antidepressants like Prozac — have also been linked to increase risk for violent, even homicidal behavior. A new study ...

Andy Worthington

  • A Statement from Former Prisoner Omar Deghayes on ...
    I’m delighted to reproduce below a statement by my friend, the former Guantánamo prisoner Omar Deghayes, which was read out at a rally (at which I spoke) outside the White House on January 11, 2011, the 9th anniversary of the opening of the prison. Omar, whose testimony is at the heart of the docume ...
  • Nine Years of Guantánamo: Statement from the Prote ...
    On the morning of January 11, 2011, as part of my short U.S. tour to mark the 9th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo, I found myself in the surreal position of being outside The White House for the first time in my life, addressing a crowd of reporters, activists, lawyers, other members of the ...
  • Guantánamo Forever?
    On the 9th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo, it may sound uncharitable to President Obama to be asking whether all plans to close the prison have failed, and to be asking whether it might remain in operation for as long as anyone can foresee. After all, the President may have failed to close ...
  • Human Rights Groups and Individuals Tell Obama: Cl ...
    With the start of the tenth year of operations at Guantánamo on Tuesday January 11, and no end in sight for the bleak prison opened at the height of the hubris of the Bush administrationâs âWar on Terror,â Iâm delighted — while here in the US campaigning for the closure of Guantánamo — to be [...]
  • On Democracy Now! Andy Worthington and Katie Galla ...
    This morning, as part of my current US tour to raise awareness of Guantánamo, in the week that the 173 men still held in the “War on Terror” prison begin their tenth year of detention, I was delighted to be invited to speak to Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez on Democracy Now! Amy and Juan [...]

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • A Real Public Option In Connecticut?
    And so it would seem.The other day for an open thread at ePluribus Media I commented on "the intended public option that should be Sustinet in Connecticut," and it would seem that is to be the case if the Sustinet Health Partnership Board of Directors get their way according to the report they hande ...
  • Dan Malloy scores first in Danbury
    Dan Malloy jumping off of the bench of the Danbury Whalers shortly after scoring the first goal in Whalers' history. [update] I have an interview from after the game at TK's. Let me say, in advance, that he was a bit reluctunt to give it since I am a political blogger... But as a hockey fan I prom ...
  • Still All That I Want
    Something that gets lost in the news about the unemployed is the fact that much of what used to be the backbone of this nation's economic prowess, the middle class, is now the working poor: Imagine That: Working Poor On The Rise After the Republicans crashed to economy in 2008 one thing became imm ...
  • Choosing a New Police Chief: No Local Ties, Please ...
    Do you want your town to look like The Dukes of Hazzard? Then again, maybe New Milford has been run by Boss Hogg and Roscoe P. Coltrane for a while. If that's not your idea of how a quaint New England town should be run, then help make sure the next police chief has no local ties - political or fa ...
  • WWWWWWWWW.boardofeducationobstruction.edu
    Click on the above link, and it will take you to an interesting place. A place where obstruction is the norm, bad lawyering is the standard, lack of preparedness is encouraged, and focusing on the main mission is discouraged. Sounds beautiful, doesn't it? Here's the real name of this magical cyber s ...

SPL Center

  • Assessing Muslim Terrorism: Lies, Damn Lies and Gl ...
    Are you prepared to believe there are 157 million Muslim terrorists in the world? You have a choice: You can take Fox News commentator and radio host Glenn Beckâs word for it â or you can insist on proof. Pausing in the midst of a meandering condemnation of the mainstream mediaâs failure to take him ...
  • Rap-Loving Promoter Creates Whites-Only Facebook C ...
    It looks like Facebook. It apparently works like Facebook. But the Terms of Use, not to mention the name, might give you a clue that this definitely isnât Facebook. Meet AryansBook.com. âAryanBook [sic] is a racialist, WHITE ARYAN PRIDE Social Network for Whites Only! Niggers, Jews, Mexicans, and Mu ...
  • Another Anti-Gay Activist Warns About Gays in the ...
    Just when it seemed the controversy over high-tech body scanners and âenhancedâ pat-down procedures at airports couldnât get weirder, along comes Eugene Delgaudio, a Loudoun County, Va., lawmaker who claims federal transportation officials were motivated to implement the new procedures by the âhomos ...
  • Tony Perkins Defends Family Research Council, Sort ...
    I went up against Tony Perkins, the head of the hard-line anti-gay group Family Research Council (FRC), on MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews” last night. Perkins was there to defend his organization after the SPLC listed it as a hate group last week. The whole experience was like trying to nail ...
  • New Intelligence Report Finds Gays Most Targeted f ...
    The FBI issued its 2009 Hate Crime Statistics report this morning. The report shows that the number of reported hate crime incidents fell from 7,783 to 6,604. But a pattern that has existed since the FBI started tallying these numbers remains: the LGBT community is, by far, the most victimized by vi ...

change: org.

  • Put Down The Clippers and Step Away From The Shave ...
    The epicenter of crime in the black community, at least according to the Orange County Florida Sheriff's Department, is the neighborhood barbershop. I guess anytime there is a group of more than two or three black men gathered in one place, brandishing weapons - in this case, hair clippers and sciss ...
  • Swiss Village Sends Death Threats to Dogs for $50 ...
    The village of Reconvilier, Switzerland has resurrected a law from 1904 that allows officials to kill dogs if their owners don't pay a $50 annual pet tax. So much for the Swiss reputation of tolerance. Reconvilier is a small village of about 2,245 humans and 280 dogs. These death threats are part of ...
  • South Carolina School Tries To Sweep MLK Day Under ...
    2000 was a big year for civil rights in South Carolina. In 2000, the state became the last state to make Martin Luther King, Jr. Day a holiday - 17 years after it was first passed. 2000 was also the year that the Confederate flag was removed from S.C.'s statehouse dome. But today, more than ten year ...
  • Super Bowl Host Committee Ignores Calls to Fight S ...
    As Super Bowl 2011 approaches, anti-trafficking advocates are getting ready for the expected spike in sex trafficking of women and girls. They have a powerful ally in their endeavors: Attorney General Greg Abbott of Texas, the state lucky enough to be hosting the Super Bowl this year, is gung-ho abo ...
  • Nigel Barker and Chefs for Seals Call for Canadian ...
    One of the most stunning photo shoots by fashion photographer and America's Next Top Model judge, Nigel Barker, took place in 2008, when Barker took his camera to Canada to document the annual seal hunt. This wasn't a one-time publicity stunt — Nigel Barker is passionate about ending the brutal slau ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Israel Defiant in Face of US Criticism
    Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying Jews have a right to live anywhere in Jerusalem, defended today a settlement project that drew criticism from US secretary of state Hillary Clinton.Israeli bulldozers cleared the way for 20 new homes for Jews in East Jerusalem, an area captured by Is ...
  • Now Arizona Wants to Allow Concealed Guns on Campu ...
    by Jeff BiggersArizona's weak gun laws could reach a new low this spring. When the Arizona state legislature reconvenes today for the first day of the new session, two gun bills will be on the table for debate. One bill--H2001--will allow faculty members to carry concealed weapons on campus. rea ...
  • Conservative Pundit Says Criticism of Palin Like ' ...
    by Bob CusackA conservative pundit on Monday ripped liberals who have suggested that Sarah Palin is to blame for the shooting tragedy in Arizona.During an appearance on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal," Bill Kristol of the conservative-leaning Weekly Standard magazine called the criticism of the forme ...
  • BP Shuts Alaska Pipeline After Leak
    by Graeme Wearden BP shares slid nearly 2.5% this morning after closure of a major Alaskan pipeline that carries around 12% of America's oil output.The Trans-Alaska pipeline system, which transports oil from the Prudhoe Bay field, was closed on Saturday following the discovery of a leak. The incid ...
  • Military Town Residents Take Ottawa to Court in $2 ...
    by Andrew ChungMONTREAL—Marie-Paule Spieser won’t drink water from a tap. Any tap. Anywhere. Such is the psychological legacy of learning 10 years ago that the well from which she and her young children were drawing their drinking water was laced with a toxic chemical, trichloroethylene, at leve ...

Lifehacker

  • JuiceDefender Simplifies Automated Android Battery ...
    Android only: JuiceDefender, a battery-saving Android app we previously checked out, has seen a major overhaul. Much-needed bug and performance fixing was the big change, but the app also saw a major interface overhaul, and a few new features. ...
  • Use Folder Hiding to Stay Focused on One Project [ ...
    Hiding files and folders is generally reserved for system files that you don't need to see. Reader Anonymous, however, uses it much more liberally, turning it into a way to stay focused on one project at a time. More�� ...
  • See What We Really Think Is Cool About Our Posts o ...
    The nice thing about Twitter? That 140-character limit forces writers to cut the crap. Since Lifehacker writers are each updating @Lifehacker ourselves, you get to see our short versions of Why You Should Care. That alone might be worth the fo ...
  • Five Easy Places to Recycle Your Old Gadgets and C ...
    Maybe you got some next-generation gear over the holidays. Maybe you're just cleaning out unused cruft in this new year. Whatever the reason, you've got gadgets that need to go. Here's where to bring them for responsible, ecological, and (most ...
  • DraftPad for iPhone [AppOfTheDay]
    If anyone's ever said "QUICK jot this down," and you went for pen and paper before your iPhone because you weren't immediately sure where to type (I nervously default to the universal search bar), then DraftPad is for you. More�� ...

Water Privatization

  • Students battle bottled water
    Green ideas: New Westminster Secondary School students and Marie-Claire Massicotte, left, and Hannah Crisp want bottled water sales banned at their school.
  • War of words over water at Westhill: Barlow debate ...
    In 1809, Joel Barlow wrote, “If we estimate its magnitude by the length of its course and the quantity of water it throws into the sea, it is much the greatest river that has hitherto come to our knowledge.” The same could be said as a metaphorical statement about the debate team from the high schoo ...
  • Students battle bottled water
    Green ideas: New Westminster Secondary School students and Marie-Claire Massicotte, left, and Hannah Crisp want bottled water sales banned at their school.
  • Review urged on privatization laws and prospective ...
    MANILA, Jan. 7 (PNA) -- With the series of increases in utility costs, including the use of Metro Manila's light rail mass transport and its expressway system, a party-list lawmaker on Thursday recommended a review on existing laws on privatization, build-operate-transfer (BOT) scheme and other rela ...
  • War of words over water at Westhill: Debate team t ...
    In 1809, Joel Barlow wrote, “If we estimate its magnitude by the length of its course and the quantity of water it throws into the sea, it is much the greatest river that has hitherto come to our knowledge.” The same could be said as a metaphorical statement about the debate team from the high schoo ...

Guardian

  • More than 200 schools miss new GCSEs target
    League tables reveal how many schools met coalition's threshold of 35% of pupils achieving five GCSEs at grade A*-C including English and maths More than 200 schools in England have failed to meet a new target for GCSE results and face coming under the control of more successful headteachers who wil ...
  • Flood evacuation leaves city deserted
    �� Officials warn that worst is yet to come �� Death toll since weekend rises to 12Emergency sirens blared across Brisbane today as thousands of people abandoned their homes and workers searched for dozens still missing in Australia's worst floods in a century.Two bodies were found today, bringing t ...
  • Blair to face Iraq inquiry next week
    Blair to make second appearance at inquiry, a year after he first gave evidence, in light of revelations about advice he received on the legality of the war Tony Blair, summoned back to the inquiry into the Iraq invasion in light of damaging and conflicting evidence revealed since he answered questi ...
  • Best friend reveals final Yeates call
    Rebecca Scott says she knew Yeates must have been abducted when she heard of disappearanceJoanna Yeates's best friend has spoken of the moment she heard the Bristol landscape architect was missing and the desperate search for her before her body was found on Christmas Day.Rebecca Scott, who is the l ...
  • Hezbollah threatens to quit coalition
    Group members likely to be charged by UN tribunal with assassinating prime minister Rafiq Hariri in 2005Hezbollah and its allies are threatening to quit the Lebanese government this afternoon � a move that would likely end prime minister Saad Hariri's reign and destabilise the fragile state.Hezbolla ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Ice-cold reality of warming projections
    Glacier melt will contribute to sea level rise - but how much? Given the importance of glaciers in regulating the water supply for a fair fraction of the Earth's population - given also the recent furore over the likely melting date for Himalayan glaciers - there's possibly no hotter topic in clim ...
  • A big bite for conservation
    � Overall, you'd have to conclude that 2010 was a better year than most for sharks. Just before the Christmas season began, both houses of the UN Congress passed the Shark Conservation Act, which basically aims to end the practice of shark finning in US waters by making it illegal. Conservation gr ...
  • Cancun splits opinion, but may mark way forward
    Does the Cancun outcome give real hope for curbing climate change? Views diverge... Within the last week we've run here on the BBC News website two articles by people knowledgeable about climate change that reach widely differing conclusions about the outcome of this year's UN climate summit. Last ...
  • Cancun: The chihuahua that roared
    �From the UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico: If Copenhagen was the Great Dane that whimpered, Cancun has been the chihuahua that roared. And what a surprise it was. Before the summit, expectations were so low that simply keeping the UN show on the road was all many observers (and some players) ...
  • The chihuahua that roared
    From the UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico: If Copenhagen was the Great Dane that whimpered, Cancun has been the chihuahua that roared. And what a surprise it was. Before the summit, expectations were so low that simply keeping the UN show on the road was all many observers (and some players) ...

The Wonk Room

thwap's schoolyard

  • Listen Up NDP: NO DEALS WITH hARPERCON SCUM
    Far and Wide talks about how, in the face of Ignatieff's apparent eagerness to force an election, the harpercons are cuddling up to the NDP. Far and Wide's take on it is that it's surprising, given all the stuff about Ignatieff's unpopularity and the Liberals' moribund polling, that it's the harperc ...
  • Never Forget: Scum-bags Blair and McGuinty's Abuse ...
    We'll get over it? No. We won't get over it. Authoritarian scum. That's what they are.
  • A Liberal-NDP Coalition is the Best We Can Hope Fo ...
    The corrupt harpercons are trying to ram through some more stupid pro-crime legislation (or they're purposefully dangling legislative garbage before the opposition parties knowing that they'll reject it so that they [the harpercons] can yammer and howl about how the opposition parties are "soft on c ...
  • There's something to be said for this sort of thin ...
    "Today you, .... tomorrow me." From Youngfox Canada.
  • Nauesating Canadian Hypocrisy on Haiti
    The latest abomination: Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon says the international community "cannot do everything in Haiti" and urged the country's leadership rivals to respect the democratic process "with respect and calm." ... it's important for the people of Haiti to assume their respo ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • NWC Executive Directors Discusses 1st Amendment an ...
    On Saturday, January 8, 2011, Stephen M. Kohn, National Whistleblowers Center Executive Director, appeared on CBS Evening News. The news segment covered the United States Department of Justice subpoena of private information on select WikiLeaks supporters. The government may have the right to th ...
  • CFTC invites comments on whistleblower regs
    The Commodities Future Trading Commission (CFTC) has proposed a series of regulations to implement the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Members of the public are invited to comment on the proposed whistleblower regulations until February 4, 2011. We can expect a replay of ...
  • 11th Circuit slaps attorneys for pursuing rape vic ...
    Two decades ago, John Green was a regular customer at a Denny's restaurant in Miami, Florida. He saw manager Asif Jawaid treat one of the employees, Floride Norelus, “as a slave.” On December 28, 2010, the 11th Circuit issued an opinion affirming a $387,738 sanction against Norelus' attorneys, Karen ...
  • WikiLeaks Scandal Demonstrates Need for Whistleblo ...
    Today, Stephen Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center, issued the following statement expressing his concern about the rise in retaliatory investigations in the wake of the WikiLeaks scandal: The WikiLeaks scandal is being used to justify a witch hunt against federal employe ...
  • Can anybody spell "witch hunt?"
    The BBC is reporting today that the Obama administration is developing a "test" to detect whistleblowers. "Clearly there are different reasons why people leak information, the public spirited uncovering of wrong-doing being one of them," BBC reporter Olivia Lang writes. Based on documents obtained b ...

Science Express

  • Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
    If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant radio ...
  • Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratospheric ...
    The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the glo ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes spend ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20th c ...
  • New approach precisely tracks evolution's footprin ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for example. T ...

TechDirt

  • On The Media Seeks Senator Who Killed Whistleblowe ...
    At the beginning of the year, we wondered if a "whistleblower" might reveal the anonymous Senator who killed the whistleblower protection bill that was making its way through Congress (and had already been approved by the Senate earlier). Now, to be clear, there were many complaints about the bill, ...
  • Rovi Sues Amazon For Not Licensing Its Electronic ...
    Rovi, the DRM company which recently changed its name from Macrovision, surprised some folks three years ago, when it bought Gemstar/TV Guide. However, in that deal, Rovi got a bunch of patents, and now it's suing Amazon over its IMDB site, claiming the company is violating five different patents c ...
  • Famed Korean Director Shoots Movie With Just iPhon ...
    Just last month, we wondered how long it would be until a feature-length film was shot solely on a smartphone. We're not quite there yet, but Ross Pruden points us to the news that famed South Korean director Park Chan-wook, who did the movie Oldboy, has shot a new film entirely with iPhones. Of c ...
  • Band Discovers Leaked Song... And Its Response Is ...
    We've talked in the past about how there are all sorts of ways that bands and musicians can react to the fact that their music has leaked out into the world (and, yes, it will leak out). There's a range of strategies from calling your fans "thieves" and getting angry, all the way to a much more fan ...
  • It's January, Which Means Congress Promises Patent ...
    Every January, it seems, we hear proclamations from Congress that this year (no, really!) will be the year that patent reform finally gets done. Of course, each year, when this proclamation is made, what comes out is a bill that is even more watered down than before and which will almost certainly ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I feel like I should say something about the anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, but it is just a silent scream at this point.  Haitians are gathering all over Haiti to commemorate, grieve, and try to figure out what the hell to do.  I sincerely hope all white knights will get the hell out of the [ ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I’m sure you all know what a clusterfuck it is in Northern Mexico right now. I wonder if a student movement, or any kind of people movement, can turn it around. (HT @maymaym) As long as we are on southern border issues, the Penn and Teller video in this post on Colorlines is hilarious. And [...]
  • 2010 in Review
    It has been an interesting year.  Thanks to all of you who have stuck around to converse.  I’ve learned a lot from you. My thinking has changed so rapidly in the last couple years, I can barely imagine what I am going to be writing two years from now.  The posts that got the most [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Racialicious posted a great TED video of Tony Porter talking about the man box. Most of you will find something to object to in this report by the United Nations on access to land and security of tenure.  (I know I skipped the recommendations part.)  But it is worth a read for how it frames the [... ...
  • Am I a Rapist?
    I don’t want to talk about the Assange rape charges. There are more than enough people doing that already. But I would like to talk about something that Jaclyn Friedman said during her debate with Naomi Wolf on Democracy Now. Friedman essentially said that a sleeping/unconscious person cannot consen ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

  • The blockade of South Yemen follows tactics of Saa ...
    As Yemen’s blockade on southern Yemen enters its third week, stocks of food, medicine and oil have dwindled to dangerous levels. Prices have skyrocketed and already malnourished children bear the brunt of the military action. The blockade began 17 days ago when the Western Armored Division establish ...
  • بقلم الكاتبة الامريكية جين نوفاك : ثلاثة أسابيع من ...
    مع دخول الحصار اليمني على اليمن الجنوبي أسبوعه الثالث ، إنخفضت المخزونات من المواد الغذائية والدواء و المشتقات النفطية الى مستويات تنذر بالخطر. و ارتفعت الأسعار و أصبح الأطفال يعانون بالفعل من سوء التغذية تحت وطأة العمليات العسكرية. وبدأ الحصار قبل 17 يوما عندما قامت وحدات المنطقة الغربية المدرعة بإ ...
  • السلام مع الكرامة في اليمن: هل يمكن ايقاف دوامه ال ...
    اÙسÙام مع اÙÙرامة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù: ÙÙ ÙÙ…Ù٠اÙÙا٠دÙام٠اÙØ­Ø±Ø¨Ø Ùتبت: جÙÙ ÙÙÙاÙ*- ÙصحÙÙØ© “إجسامÙÙر” ترجمة/ عبداÙÙ٠عبداÙÙÙاب ÙاجÙ- ترجمة خاصة بÙ: اÙمستشار Ùت Ù٠حرب م٠حرÙب صعدة اÙستة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù ÙÙ Ùسخة Ù…Ùررة م٠ا ...
  • Peace with Dignity in Yemen, Can the Cycle of Endl ...
    Each of the six Sa’ada wars in Yemen was a photo copy of the one before, except the bombs got bigger, the children more frail and the jails more crowded. The Yemeni government systematically denied food, medicine and international aid to civilians in the northern Sa’ada province as a tactic of war s ...
  • Would Yemeni law find Anwar Awlaki guilty?
    Yemen’s Foreign Minister Abu Baker al Qirby urged Anwar Awlaki to turn himself to be tried under Yemeni law, vowing that no Yemeni citizen would be extradited to the US or any other country. The US announced last week that it had authorized Awlaki’s kill or capture, having determined he is an active ...

Dark Politricks

  • Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To Push ...
  • Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming Ala ...
    Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace follow ...
  • Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Openin ...
    Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircraft p ...
  • NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have cau ...
    John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve seen ...
  • Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal government is ...
    Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll found ...

food and water watch

treehugger

  • The Builder Concept Home 2011: Time To Redefine Wh ...
    All images credit Builder Magazine Concept Home It is that time of year again, the once-huge builders show in Orlando, where every year they build a concept home and every year I gripe about it. One might think that this year I would have less to complain about; after all, it is net zero energy ...
  • Overfishing by US Fishermen Will End This Year - F ...
    photo: Dave Palmater/Creative Commons It seems too good to be true, and the final data won't be in for a few months to confirm it, but the outgoing chief scientist of NOAA's Fisheries Service, Steve Murawski, has told Huffington Post that he expects the final catch stats for the 2010 season to ...
  • Hyundai Introduces the 40 MPG Veloster Coupe (2011 ...
    Photo: Michael Graham Richard One More Small Car Getting Around 40 MPG on the Highway Hyundai has been on a roll lately. After launching the all-new 40 MPG (highway) Elantra a few weeks ago, they are now debuting another small car that should get around 40 MPG on the highway (not an official E ...
  • ePlant Gives Biologists a Cool Open-Source 3D View ...
    Image via PLoS ONE The biology of plants is complex, with scientists needing to study different types of information at different levels simultaneously to get a complete picture. That is why a group of researchers have created ePlant, a brilliant project that displays information in 3D. And eve ...
  • 7 Must-Read Green Books for Your E-Reader
    Photo: Planet Green For avid readers, making the switch to a Barnes and Noble Nook, Amazon Kindle, or Sony Reader can help you save thousands of pieces of paper every year when you read your books electronically instead of in hardback. And did you know that 1 in 10 A...Read the full story ...

Biosingularity

  • Using the body’s own defenses to combat cancer
    In the past 40 years, scientists have learned a great deal about how cells become cancerous. Some of that knowledge has translated to new treatments, but most of the time doctors are forced to rely on standard chemotherapy and radiation, which can do nearly as much damage to the patients as they do ...
  • Telomere Tweaks Reverse Aging in Mice
    By tweaking enzymes that prevent chromosome tips from unraveling, researchers have shown age-related tissue degeneration can be reversed in some mice. Medical breakthroughs involving mice must be taken with rock-sized grains of salt because, despite their genetic similarity, the rodents aren’t human ...
  • Warfarin, Dietary Supplements a Risky Combo
    If you’re using the anticlotting drug warfarin, tell your doctor about any herbal or dietary supplements you may be taking. That’s the strong advice of researchers who say that nine of the 10 top-selling supplements can change the effectiveness of warfarin, potentially causing a dangerous bleed, a d ...
  • A SNP Surprise
    Ellen Goode and her colleagues at the Mayo Clinic found a surprise while studying the human genome: four chromosomal locations with mutations that could lead to an increased risk of ovarian cancer. But the biggest surprise was a number of SNPs on chromosome 8 that seem to act through a different mec ...
  • Researchers discover that gut bacteria affect mult ...
    Biologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have demonstrated a connection between multiple sclerosis (MS)—an autoimmune disorder that affects the brain and spinal cord—and gut bacteria. The work—led by Sarkis K. Mazmanian, an assistant professor of biology at Caltech, and postdoc ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Mass animal deaths in winter 2010-2011
    Large groups of birds, fish and other animals have been found dead in different parts of the world. In many cases, the cause of death remains unknown.
  • Russneft agrees $6.2 bln debt restructuring
    Russian mid-sized oil company Russneft has agreed to extend to 2020 repayment of a $6.2 billion debt with its main lenders Sberbank, the country's largest bank, and Glencore International AG and cut the interest rate to 9% from 12%, Russneft said on Wednesday.
  • U.S. and China need to learn how to talk and count
    A meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday wrapped up U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates' three-day visit to China. The meeting may have been purely ceremonial, but it was still an important step in the preparations for Hu Jintao's upcoming visit to the United States on January 18-21.
  • Kamchatka authorities dismiss Cinderella censorshi ...
    Authorities in Russia's easternmost region of Kamchatka dismissed as "nonsense" reports that a recent theatrical performance based on Cinderella had been censored.
  • Belarus hopes to get Russian oil no later than Jan ...
    Belarus hopes that Russian oil companies, which halted their supplies to Minsk over disagreement on prices, will resume deliveries no later than January 20, Marina Kostyuchenko, a spokeswoman for state-controlled petrochemicals company Belneftekhim said on Wednesday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • The right's role in the Arizona massacre
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Glenn Reynolds is a dumbass and those who find his arguments persuasive are, if possible, even more stupid. if you’re using this event to criticize the “rhetoric” of Mrs. Palin or others with whom you disagree, then you’re either: (a ...
  • This Week in Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Since my previous update combat operations have concluded for:Sgt. Jose M. Cintron RosadoSpec. Jose A. Delgado ArroyoLance Cpl. Maung P. ...
  • Help a blogger out
    DCblogger could use some help.� Please do something if you can.
  • Recalibrating convenience, privacy and security
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postWe will probably always have to balance computer security and ease of use. Ideally security is baked in, and we go on our merry way without having to think about it. This is the case with viruses. Users were once expected to downlo ...
  • This Week in Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Re: the “Accounts Diverge Sharply” article by the Times above, such resolutely neutral treatment smacks of the kind of “some claim earth is rou ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • "Earth to TransFair: Fair Trade is a Movement Not ...
    North America's largest consumer advocacy organization, the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), which represents over 850,000 members, is coordinating a new campaign to oppose the name change of the fair trade certifier TransFair USA to "Fair Trade USA". TransFair has applied for the new name to be ...
  • Stop TransFair's "FairWash" of Personal Care!
    OCA and Dr. Bronner's File Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Complaint Against TransFair and Fair Trade Cheater Brands Avon and Hain Celestial Click here to read this article
  • The Scoop on Neotame - Not Allowed in Organics
    Neotame, as a synthetic additive, is not allowed in organic foods, contrary to the Internet rumor.Click here to read this article
  • Arizona's Long Dark Night Continues
    Perhaps not since the full-on throes of the Civil Rights era has a single state been so beset by crisis, conflict, and now catastrophe. Chronicling Arizona politics has been a trying and tiresome experience on many levels, with few points of optimism at hand to buffet the constant blows of injustice ...
  • Hemp History Week 2011
    The Hemp Industries Association (HIA) and Vote Hemp are excited to announce that the 2nd Annual Hemp History Week will be held May 2-8, 2011. As a national grassroots education campaign designed to renew strong support for hemp farming in the U.S., Hemp History Week will feature events in cities and ...

fotoFrontera

  • Así celebraron el Año Nuevo 2011 en el mundo (56 f ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para ver todas las fotografías.
  • Así celebraron la Navidad 2010 por el Mundo (35 fo ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para ver todas las fotografías.
  • Imágenes, Fotografías y Wallpapers de Artistas I
    En esta colección de imágenes de artistas, le ofrecemos a usted fotos de Elvis Presley, Adam Lambert, Keith Richards, Bon Jovi y algo más. Disfrute nuestras actualizaciones y gracias por preferir al Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas como fuente de recursos fotográficos. ¡Grandes íconos del Rock!Nota: Haz ...
  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XXXII ...
    De manera sorprendente, estamos ya en la parte número 33 de nuestra colección titulada 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes'. Recuerde que esta serie, engloba las imágenes que han sido elegidas por el editor. Disfrute lo mejor de lo mejor y manténgase en espectativa ante nuestras nuevas act ...
  • Wallpapers de Winnie Pooh by Disney I (8 imágenes)
    ¿Le gustan a usted las Imágenes de Winnie Pooh? ¡A mi me encantan! Por eso mismo y por mucho más, aquí tienen una linda colección con 8 wallpapers en Alta Resolución cortesía de Walt Disney.Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Are you learning your food habits at home? Doesn’ ...
    When I was a teacher, a common gripe among the staff was that the parent’s “weren’t doing their job” at home and how were “we,” the teachers supposed to make up for students whose parents didn’t read to them or encourage them to do their homework. This ongoing blame game ranged from discussions of r ...
  • New FDA Numbers Reveal Food Animals Consume Lion’s ...
    Antibiotics, one of world’s greatest medical discoveries, are slowly losing their effectiveness in fighting bacterial infections and the massive use of the drugs in food animals may be the biggest culprit. The growing threat of antibiotic resistance is largely due to the misuse and overuse of antibi ...
  • Yakima Valley Releases Draft Air Quality Policy fo ...
    Unlike agricultural water discharges which are regulated for large farms defined as CAFO by the EPA and the Clean Water Act, most agricultural air emissions are not regulated. Water discharges and air emissions that are related to industrial scale agricultural operations in rural areas are big conce ...
  • No title
    By Julia DeBruicker Valliant On the front porch, boots stamp away snow, and then the farmer steps inside.  The glasses fog up.  Off comes the jacket, the cap, and out goes the hand in greeting.  After a season spent grazing cows and sheep and pasturing pigs, hens and turkeys, meat producers from ar ...
  • Happy Holidays from the Johns Hopkins Center for a ...

Norwegianity

  • Book break
    I’ve been reading two books a chapter at a time since getting the Kindle: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1, and The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz, Ron Jeremy’s autobiography. There are few gems in the Twain but the real howlers have been in Jeremy’s book. Eddie Murphy did a great routine abo ...
  • I’ll never forget, no way
    So much things to say.* Just as evangelicals always circled the wagons to protect cultists, the mainstream right and their fellow travelers are busting their asses to cover for hate radio. Barbara Walters (Barbara Walters!) is saying it’s unfair to blame Sarah Palin (TBogg begs to differ). David Bro ...
  • Cow pie politics
    I should have known better. In this country if the left dares to put their foot down, the right immediately forms a cow pie around that foot. More: Roy Edroso finds it necessary to write a part deux to his morning Voice screed PZ vs the rationalizers An Arizona reporter on the tragedy Shooting from ...
  • The politics of sudden acceleration
    Yes, let’s go there. Let’s talk about how one side is always making vague and not so vague eliminationist threats while the other side is always reaching out for compromise (against the wishes of its base, but only one base gets pandered to in this country, and it’s the one Mr. Fish is talking to [. ...
  • More on that
    Authorities identified the dead as U.S. District Judge John Roll, 63; Christina Greene, 9; Giffords aide Gabe Zimmerman, 30; Dorothy Morris, 76; Dorwin Stoddard, 76; and Phyllis Scheck, 79. Roll had just stopped by to see his friend Giffords after attending Mass. But officials said they believed tha ...

Public News Service

  • Could Mental Health Intervention Have Prevented Tu ...
    Could Mental Health Intervention Have Prevented Tucson Tragedy? Phoenix, AZ – The accused Tucson shooter was suspended from college last fall pending a mental health evaluation. A long-time mental health advocate says that’s the point where last Saturday’s shootings may have been prevented. Comments ...
  • Vigil for Civility Held as AZ Legislature Begins S ...
    Vigil for Civility Held as AZ Legislature Begins Session Phoenix, AZ – Politics took a back seat at the State Capitol Monday, as Governor Brewer and most lawmakers concentrated on offering their condolences and prayers for the victims of Saturday’s Tucson shootings. Outside, a vigil to restore civil ...
  • Official: Repealing Health Care Reform Law Would C ...
    Official: Repealing Health Care Reform Law Would Cost Billions Phoenix, AZ – As the U.S. House prepares to vote on repealing the new health care reform law, Arizonans may feel justifiably confused after listening to the pro and con arguments. Some say repeal will save money, while others say it will ...
  • New Year's Resolution to Quit Smoking? – Tip ...
    New Year's Resolution to Quit Smoking? – Tips to Help Kick the Habit for Good Phoenix, AZ – It’s the first week of the New Year and a crucial time for those who resolved to quit smoking – which takes an average of 7-8 tries before most people are successful. The American Lung Association offers seve ...
  • Tossing Arizona's Wild Birds a Winter Lifeline
    Tossing Arizona's Wild Birds a Winter Lifeline Phoenix, AZ – When the weather turns cold, wild bird populations in Arizona, especially in the mountains, have to work hard to find enough food to survive. Now is the time that Arizonans can help by putting out feeders and keeping them full this winter. ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Feds Yank GE Crops From All Northeast Refuges
    Settlement of Bombay Hook Suit Makes Southeast Refuges Next Legal Target    The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has agreed to stop planting genetically engineered (GE) crops on all its refuges within a dozen Northeastern states, according to a settlement agreement in a lawsuit brought by conservation a ...
  • In Wake Of Pending FDA Approval Of GE Salmon, Cali ...
    Bill Would Require Labels on All Genetically Engineered Salmon   Dissatisfied with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) current review of the first-ever proposed commercialization of genetically engineered (GE) salmon, today California State Assemblymember Jared Huffman introduced an Assemb ...
  • Obama to Sign Landmark Food Safety Legislation
    Center for Food safety Applauds New Powers for the FDA. Tester-Hagan Amendment a Win for Consumers and Small, Local Food Producers and Processors The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the passage of the Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) by the United States Congress.  The bill which passed ...
  • USDA Releases Final Environmental Impact Statement ...
    AGENCY MAKES NO DECISION ON APPROVAL OF THE ROUNDUP READY CROP CITING HARM TO ORGANIC INDUSTRY AND PROLIFERATION OF SUPERWEEDS CFS URGES AGENCY TO CONTINUE BAN ON POTENTIALLY HARMFUL CROP The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today the availability of the Final Environmental Impact Sta ...
  • Help Us Fight Monsanto and Protect Our Food and Fa ...
    This has been an incredible year for the Center for Food Safety, and our work protecting our farms, our food, and our environment from the potential hazards of genetically engineered (GMO) crops.  As you know, in April we battled Monsanto in the U.S. Supreme Court – and were victorious in maintainin ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Ray McGovern: Why Obama Should Read Wikileaks on A ...
    Ray McGovern: Why Obama Should Read Wikileaks on Afghanistan By RAY McGOVERN Perhaps President Barack Obama should give himself a waiver on the ban prohibiting U.S. government employees from downloading classified cables released by WikiLeaks, so he can get a better grasp on the futility of his Afg ...
  • We should focus on WikiLeaks, not Assange | Social ...
    We should focus on WikiLeaks, not Assange | SocialistWorker.org: "UPON LISTENING to Democracy Now's long overdue debate between two feminists about the sexual assault allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange recently, I was struck by how unsatisfying the debate was. I have been one of th ...
  • Brother Jesse Blog: If Tucson shooter were Muslim, ...
    Brother Jesse Blog: If Tucson shooter were Muslim, would the discussion be different?: "Over the last few years alone, since the election of President Obama, we have witnessed a heightened culture of hate, violence, bigotry, death threats, religious intolerance, vicious political foolery, racial ten ...
  • Guest Editorial: AAP: Scott Sisters, NAACP, Black ...
    �Read the rest of this excellent editorial @ African American Pundit: THE SCOTT SISTERS WHERE RELEASED AND NO ONE SHOULD HAVE A DOUBT THAT THE VICTORY WAS INSPIRED BY BLACK BLOGGERS AND BLOGTALK RADIO HOST. BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY IT WAS INSPIRED BY THE SCOTT SISTERS MOTHER, EVELYN ROSCOE, WHO FO ...
  • John Pilger’s The War You Don’t See: An indictment ...
    John Pilger’s The War You Don’t See: An indictment of news reporting as state propaganda :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1] Pilger questions BBC Head of Newsgathering Fran Unsworth and Editor-in-Chief of ITV News David Mannion about their ...

Pensieve

  • Grand Canyon from Hopi Point
    I wasn’t expecting to go to the Grand Canyon over Christmas break. But, since my nephew Oscar and his wife Natalie now live in Phoenix, my brother invited me to join them in visiting him for the first time. The trip over there was grueling, especially after sitting in a bus for 14 hours. But, [...] ...
  • Change, by Futureshorts
    Related posts:Hope for Change? Related posts:Hope for Change?
  • Colón Protesters Voluntarily Disperse
    Minutes before being forcibly removed by a large group of Honduran police and military, the protesters that had laid siege to the city of Trujillo for 11 days voluntarily dispersed. Had they not, at the very least, there would have been violence. Iâm glad to have been wrong in overestimating the zea ...
  • Trujillo in Siege, Violence Imminent
    Photo by samiq Armed “peasants”, alleged narcos, pro-Zelaya activists and assorted foreign troublemakers have laid siege to the city of Trujillo, Colon, for 11 days. The people of Trujillo are desperate as the only road to the city is blocked by protesters. Armored vehicles with cash for banks, truc ...
  • Don’t Read This If You Work for the US Govt.
    This article does not contain quotes from any secret US government documents, but does discuss and link to reproductions of them, in the press, and in the Google cache. I have been hesitant to publish any information related to Wikileaks in my blog, being sadly aware of the lengths to which the US p ...

Green Times

  • Young tree plants in national park
    It looks like someone left their picnic waste behind... but in fact these bags -called tree guards- protect small plants in order to reforest some areas. They save the vulnerable seedlings from animal’s appetite, harsh weather conditions and reduce moisture loss. Isn’t it amazing to see a p ...
  • The Electric Bike: with Dutch courage
    Thinking about riding to work? Maybe an e-bike is just what you need &ndash giving you a little extra oomph to get up those hills…
  • What's On 10 January 2011
    Happy New Year from Green Times! Kicking off the new year in Sydney - the City of Sydney Council is collecting your old Christmas Trees for free! That's right a free pick up - but there are only a limited number left...
  • Selection of organic vegetables
    Summertime is salad time! Currently you can find a great range of the most delicious organic vegetables on the market. To find a place where you can purchase all kinds of fresh organic fruits and vegetables, use the Green Times directory, section Food Drink (pictures/food-drink.php). If you ...
  • Enjoying a sunny day at the beach
    Australians can feel lucky to be able to enjoy beautiful sunny weather most part of the year. But beware of the sun! Two out of three Australians suffer from skin cancer (http://www.cancersa.org.au/aspx/Skin_cancer_in_Australia.aspx ) before the age of 70. We should all protect ourselves and treat ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Flood-Stricken Australia Sets Up Temporary Morgue
    ShareThisFlood-Stricken Australia Sets Up Temporary Morgue 11 Jan 2011 As Brisbane braces for more flooding today, authorities have set up at least one temporary morgue west of Australia's third largest city in anticipation of bodies floating downstream from areas devastated in flash floods earlier ...
  • Israeli PM calls for 'credible military option' le ...
    ShareThisIsraeli PM calls for 'credible military option' led by US, against Iran 12 Jan 2011 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for "a credible military option against Iran" to force Tehran to end its nuclear energy program. On Tuesday, Netanyahu said that military action should be ...
  • US drone attack kills 4 in Pakistan
    ShareThisUS drone attack kills 4 in Pakistan 12 Jan 2011 At least four people have been killed in the latest non-UN-sanctioned US drone attack in the northwest of Pakistan. Over 1,184 people were killed and hundreds injured in a barrage of non-UN-sanctioned US drone strikes in Pakistan in 2010 amid ...
  • Man Arrested for Threatening to Shoot Aides to Sen ...
    ShareThisMan Arrested for Threatening to Shoot Aides to Senator Bennet --Affidavit: 'I'm just going to come down there and shoot you all.' 10 Jan 2011 A Colorado man was arrested after allegedly threatening to shoot members of U.S. Senator Michael Bennet’s staff in an incident occurring just days be ...
  • The term 'control orders' to disappear, replaced w ...
    ShareThisThe term 'control orders' to disappear, replaced with 'terrorism prevention powers' --Terror suspects - who are unable to be tried in court - will be allowed to use a 'designated computer', as long as they allow police to install surveillance software on it. 11 Jan 2011 The cabinet will tod ...

Daily Loaf

  • Mass animal death tracker on Google Maps: Apocalyp ...
    Want to see the damage? Well, Google has a map for that. What many of us didn't know until the eerie, back-to-back mass bird deaths in the States were reported, is that this had been happening all over the globe months before these recent events occurred.
  • Sarah Palin can’t resist attacking media in new vi ...
    After days of laying low, former Alaska Governor and potential 2012 GOP Presidential candidate Sarah Palin released a seven minute plus video this morning in reaction to the attempted assassination of Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.  See it here. There’s a new Tampa City Council cand ...
  • “Dingfelder Law” now open for business
    There had been speculation that he would then run again for City Council, where he would undoubtedly be a serious contender, what with his experience and name recognition. But that would have meant going back to court, to fight a seemingly punitive vote the council made last fall that singled out ...
  • Nudists and comedy Saturday at Caliente
    My first visit to Caliente was several years ago when Soccer Dad and I were coaxed to come out to Caliente’s night club with a few other swinger couples.  While Caliente isn’t a swingers resort, it is more open minded than your average South Tampa bar.  I can wear my sluttiest dress, shortest nig ...
  • Sarah Palin responds by video to assassination att ...
    Palin said, "Like many, I’ve spent the past few days reflecting on what happened and praying for guidance. After this shocking tragedy, I listened at first puzzled, then with concern, and now with sadness, to the irresponsible statements from people attempting to apportion blame for this terrible e ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • A year in jail not enough punishment for protestin ...
    Israel’s military went to court for the right to keep holding in jail Palestinian organizer Abdallah Abu Rahmah, the cousin of slain protester Jawaher Abu Rahmah. Happily for the Israeli Army, it’s a military court so they complied. Abdallah is now to serve an additional 2-3 months. Presumably they ...
  • East Jerusalem update: 1 Palestinian organizer dro ...
    By Jesse Bacon Adnan Gheith, whose plight we mentioned earlier, dropped his appeal with the Israeli Supreme Court and will be expelled for four months from East Jerusalem. Ha’aretz reporter Mairav Zonszein linked to that of Jonathan Pollak refusing to plead for mercy in his own case. While it is a t ...
  • Israeli Army’s anonymous version of Jawaher& ...
    By Jesse Bacon One of the proudest moments on this blog for me came when we were among the people covering the Rachel Corrie’s attempt to bring desperately needed supplies to Gaza in the aftermath of the 9 killings aboard the Mavi Marmara. Covering the event live on twitter as the Israeli army jamme ...
  • Horrible start to a new year: Palestinian woman ki ...
    from the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Jawaher Abu Rahmah, 36, w
    • as evacuated to the Ramallah hospital yesterday after inhaling massive amounts of tear-gas during the weekly protest in Bil’in, and died of poisoning this morning. Abu Rahmah was the sister of Bassem Abu Rahmah who was als ...
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      Support peace with your tax-deductible year-end gift today. Donate by December 31st and your gift will help The Only Democracy’s sponsor Jewish Voice for Peace meet a $100,000 matching gift. Your gift helps us keep bringing on the ground reports, commentary, and interviews from Israeli, Palestinian, ...

    Politics in the Zeros

  • Arizona sheriff links Limbaugh words to shooting
    “The kind of rhetoric that flows from people like Rush Limbaugh, in my judgment he is irresponsible, uses partial information, sometimes wrong information. [Limbaugh] attacks people, angers them against government, angers them against elected officials and that kind of behavior in my opinion is not ...
  • Israeli vulture cleared of spying charges
    This is certainly good news. No innocent bird — even a vulture — deserves to be held on trumped up charges. I also hope that R65′s colleague, reportedly still circling around Saudi Arabia, will stay safe.
  • World’s fastest solar car, no batteries, just sola ...
    The Sunswift Ivy solar car reached almost 55 mph, a new record for a car powered solely by solar cells with no battery packs. It was designed and built by students at the University of South Wales, beat the previous record by a substantial margin and the record was certified by the Guinness Book of ...
  • NMA.tv from Taiwan on the Tucson shootings
    Link Further proof that other countries think the US has jumped the tracks.
  • Governor Brown commences painful budget cuts
    During Governor Brown’s press conference Monday, he was asked what would happen if voters reject the continuation of taxes set to expire this year. He replied, take all the budget cuts we’re making now and multiply by 2. Ouch. The cuts he announced are already severe and draconian. They are across t ...

Coteret

  • Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for remov ...
    On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan shared with t ...
  • “Rejectionist front”: Maariv details N ...
    As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here’s the latest example, from a ...
  • New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: ‘ ...
    On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. Note that this i ...
  • Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book, no ...
    Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the introdu ...
  • Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders spons ...
    This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers and then di ...

Deadline Live

  • “What We’re Up Against Is The MILITARY ...
  • This Day In History – January 12
    1737 – John Hancock, American patriot (d. 1793), was born. 1773 – The first public Colonial American museum opens in Charleston, South Carolina. 1893 – Hermann Göring, German Nazi official (d. 1946), was born 1893 – Alfred Rosenberg, German Nazi official (d. 1946), was born 1895 – The National Trust ...
  • Deadline Live – January 11 2011
    News and commentary on this 11th day of January 2011 from ‘Our Narrator and Radio Gun’, Jack Blood. In the first hour David Icke makes a return to Deadline to discuss the shooting in Arizona targeting Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. http://www.davidicke.com/ In the second hour Tad Lumpkin joins Deadline to ...
  • The Murders in Arizona and Attacks on Freedom
    Yet another nut job has decided to take his frustrations out on innocent people. This time one Jared Loughner managed to kill six people and wound thirteen others. The dead include a child, 9 year old Christina Green. Also dead are John Roll, Gabriel Zimmerman, Dorwin Stoddard, Dorthy Murray and Phy ...
  • Religious extremists banned from picketing Arizona ...
    The Arizona legislature has passed emergency legislation to prevent members of a church notorious for its anti-gay, anti-Catholic views from disrupting tomorrow’s funeral of a nine-year-old victim of Saturday’s shooting. The Westboro Baptist church in Kansas praised Jared Lee Loughner for killing si ...

The Air Vent

  • Cartoons are fun
    A little wrongthink fun from TGBrown on a CA thread.
  • Teleconnections — Shoot your own foot
    It is a sad day in America (and the world) when a lunatic in Arizona attempted to murder dozens of people, killing six and hospitalizing others including Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.  If you pray, please pray for the victims. It is even sadder when lunatics with agenda’s turn this into an anti- ...
  • EIV/TLS Regression – Why Use It?
    This is a guest post reprinted with permission from Roman M’s blog statpad.  I found this to be the best explanation I’ve read of the difference in OLS and EIV methods and it has the additional benefit of discovering that the solutions of the EIV regression are dependent on the input scaling.   T ...
  • Let it Rain
    Anastassia Makarieva has been graciously keeping me up to date on the goings on with their recent publication.  She sent me an email today with a bit of a surprise. Dear Colleagues Recently news sneaked in here and there that a “secret” project in Abu Dhabi has successfully created artificial rains ...
  • Tell us what you really think
    Judith Curry has a post on Libertarians and environment.  Apparenlty, I’ve been keeping my opinions to myslef too much lately because after reading the following sentence, I let loose with a chapter size description of my opinions.  It’s like I don’t have a blog or something. So why do Libertarian ...

Focal Point

  • Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) Shot in Head at Tuc ...
    Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) was shot in the head and severely wounded by a gunman who ran up to her at a campaign event in a Tucson supermarket parking lot and started shooting. Several others were wounded in the attack and one of Giffords' aides was reportedly killed. (Update: The Washington ... ...
  • There's a Sucker Born Every Minute
    Dwight Garner wins the Lede of the Day Award for his scathing and accurate assessment of the New York Times Book Review's self-help bestseller list: The New York Times Book Review’s advice and miscellaneous best-seller list — the place where self-help books go to eyeball one another — is a ... ...
  • Senate Dems Unveil Roadmap for Filibuster Reform
    Open Congress has the latest on the senate Democrats' filibuster reform plan: Senators Tom Udall [D, NM], Tom Harkin [D, IA] and Jeff Merkley [D, OR] have released an official outline of their filibuster reform package. As expected, it would force senators who want to filibuster to actually .. ...
  • 100,000 Dead Fish: Take the Quiz
    This simple quiz neatly divides the world into two kinds of people. A hundred thousand unexplained dead fish is a job for: a) theology; or, b) ichthyology. [Photo credit: psyberartist, Creative Commons.]Read More
  • Dear NYT: No Means No; Shoving A Dick Into An Unco ...
    Katrin Bennhold of the New York Times has a heartwarming piece for anyone planning a New Year's Eve hookup. According to Bennhold's friends, consenting to any sex with a dude is the equivalent of giving him an all-access pass to your orifices for the rest of the night, if not the rest of your life ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook to Distribute AMBER Alerts, Perhaps Other ...
    In an interesting tie between government and Facebook, users will soon be able to receive AMBER (Americaâs Missing Broadcast Emergency Response) Alerts on the site about children abducted in their area. The deal is made possible through a partnership between the company and the National Center for ...
  • Facebook’s Big Credits Push Shows Itself in CityVi ...
    Over the past year, Facebook has steadily worked to make Credits the only payments option on its platform, but has given few specifics details on what it’s doing during the transition. Below, we take a fresh look at Facebook, its top developers and the platform providers to help clear up where Credi ...
  • Facebook Adds Seven More Ad Providers to Approved ...
    After releasing a very short list of ad providers that it has approved to work with developers on the platform last month, Facebook has added seven more names in the past week or so. Readers will recognize many of them as having been active on Facebook for years. The newly-listed companies: Applifie ...
  • Data on Facebook’s Traffic, Advertising, and Compa ...
    With Facebook’s recent substantial fundraising round and the emerging possibility of an initial public offering in 2012, Facebook’s growth and business success will impact even more individuals, businesses, and institutions throughout the coming year. While the company remains private with details o ...
  • Top 20 Growing Facebook Pages: Zynga, Call of Duty ...
    We had a good mix of different Pages on our list of the Top 20 fastest growing Facebook Pages this week — everything from football (soccer) to games to TV and movies to National Geographic. Growth on our list is measured by the number of Likes added since last week using our PageData tool, which [.. ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Israel begrudges Palestine its fragile tourism
    Stuart Littlewood exposes the hypocrisy of Britain's Israel lobby, which has been mounting a campaign to get the UK's advertising watchdog to force the removal of an advertisement for tourism in Palestine while endorsing Israel's illegal occupation of Palestinian territories and annexation of Arab E ...
  • Grains of sand: highlights from the alternative me ...
    Paul J. Balles highlights "the brilliance and integrity of the alternative press" - characteristics that are often lacking in the mainstream media - with selected quotes on current events from active writers in the alternative media.
  • British Zionists' hypocritical view of suffering a ...
    Gilad Atzmon considers why British Zionists, notably, Israel's mouthpiece, the Jewish Chronicle, the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Community Security Trust, insist on acknowledging only Jewish suffering and deny the suffering of the Palestinians at the hand of Israel.
  • Radicals in US Congress: Representative Peter King ...
    Lawrence Davidson considers the impending US congressional hearings on the "radicalization of the American Muslim community", focusing on Representative Peter King, the main behind the hearings, and the historical context - the "cyclically recurring American phenomenon" of self-abuse which "entails ...
  • Israeli parliament launches McCarthyist witch-hunt ...
    Uri Avnery views the alliance of racists and fascists behind a bill, recently adopted by the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, to investigate the funding sources of human rights and civil liberties groups but not the settler organizations that are financed by US evangelical sects and Russian mafiosi.

Amazon Rainforest

  • Second rancher sentenced for contract kill of Doro ...
    A second rancher has been sentenced for his role in the murder of Dorothy Stang, an American nun who was gunned down in 2005 for her efforts on behalf of poor farmers in the Amazon Rainforest. Regivaldo Galvao was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a jury in the city of Pará. Last month [...]
  • Yasuni National Park- SAVED!
    President Raphael Correa now has approved an agreement to leave Ecuador’s largest oil reserves, amounting to some 900 million barrels, underground in Yasuni National Park in exchange for more than $3 billion. Under the unprecedented agreement, known as the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, the government of Ec ...
  • Amazon watchgroups SILENT over new Chevron oil spi ...
    In the space of a week, a Chevron technical team has discovered two fresh oil spills in Ecuador’s oil-producing Amazon region. One covers three hectares (7.4 acres) near state-owned oil company Petroecuador’s Guanta production station in the heart of Cofan indigenous country. The other impacts half ...
  • Amazon River dolphin new stunning photos!
    The Amazon River dolphin (Bufeo, Bufeo Colorado, Boto, Boto Cor de Rosa, Boutu, Nay, Tonina) or Pink River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), is a freshwater River dolphin endemic to the Orinoco, Amazon and Araguaia/Tocantins River systems of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. These we ...
  • Belo Monte dam auction proceeds despite protests!
    Bidding for electricity generated by Brazil’s planned Belo Monte Dam in the Amazon rainforest has been marked by protests and legal confusion. A court injunction issued late Monday suspended the dam auction overnight, throwing the bidding process into a state of chaos. Just moments before the aucti ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Additional Omitted Points in CIA-Gulen coverage & ...
    Crucial Details Missing in the MSM Coverage of the Recent Intel Chief’s Exposé Last week I wrote about the Washington Post’s incomplete and one-sided coverage of the recently published memoir by former Turkish Intelligence Chief Osman Nuri Gundes exposing CIA Operations via an Islamic Group in Centr ...
  • Weekly Round Up for January 9
    Obama’s Whistleblower-Hunt, ‘Rent-A-Generals’ Industry, A Great Example of Intentionally Awful Journalism, One-Tip-Based Terror Watch List & More! A belated happy new year to all our readers and friends here at Boiling Frogs Post. As you can tell I am just coming up for air. The holiday season happe ...
  • The “Exceptionally “Redacted 9/11 Commission Inter ...
    Newly Released 9/11 Commission Files at Cryptome.Org Last week John Young’s information site Cryptome.Org began publishing documents related to the interviews conducted by the 9/11 Commission which were released for the first time. On January 3, Cryptome posted the 9/11 Commission’s report on my int ...
  • Turkish Intel Chief Exposes CIA Operations via Isl ...
    âIn the 1990s Gulenâs Madrasas sheltered 130 CIA agents” in Kyrgyzstan & Uzbekistanâ Yesterday Washington Postâs Jeff Stein published a very interesting but incomplete story regarding a recently published memoir by former Turkish Intelligence Chief Osman Nuri Gundes. Here is the title of his post: I ...
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Afro Spear

  • Cosmetics Industry Rakes in Billions on the Insecu ...
    Colorism is happening, not only with Africans throughout the diaspora, but also with our equally melanated Indian brothers and sisters. I was surprised, but not surprised (if you know what I mean) to learn of the rampant colorism that’s happening in India. I have heard of the color caste system in t ...
  • Violence
    A deeper prespective from Sister Ana: Poverty is violence Hunger is violence Injustice is violence Racial/Ethnic/Religious Discrimination is violence Ignorance is violence Backwardness is violence War is violence Sickness without the proper medical attention is violence Lack of sanitary conditions i ...
  • “Welcome South Sudan, then Darfur” by ...
    South Sudan’s seceding is more a fact that a thought. It is unstoppable. Come January 9th, southerners, as they’ve already indicated, will vote for freedom. Yeah. Freedom. Everybody wants to be free and, of course, everybody deserves to be free. Freedom means, among other things, honour, sense of be ...
  • Sudan Referendum
    Interesting documentary about Sudan and it’s upcoming referendum on January 9th.
  • Don’t Leave the Church with Your Hands Throw ...
    I read a while back that Anne Rice, the writer of the Vampire Chronicles, and who is/was a Catholic, has decided to leave the church because of the rampant hypocrisy that she sees there. In an article of the Los Angeles Times dating back to August 2010, Anne was quoted as saying: “The author Anne [. ...

Expose the BNP

  • Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
    Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a nation ...
  • Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
    A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep his po ...
  • Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
    The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative candidat ...
  • Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
    On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop denying ...
  • Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
    On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well. Griffi ...

Sen4Earth

  • No to Monsanto and GMO: Action Central
    "SEN is greatly concerned that Monsanto and GMO give rise to a threat that if unchecked could eventually prove as catastrophic to mankind and the sustainability of all life on earth as global warming. We must scream bloody murder, and do so with facts." -- Gregory Hilbert, Co-Founder Sustainability ...
  • Bill Gates On Climate Change & Energy: We Must and ...
    Whether you know a little or a lot about Climate Change (aka Global Warming), SEN urges you to watch this one-hour video, because you will learn a great deal either way. Gates lays out a sweeping set of ideas for reducing CO2 emmissions to zero. Gates is no fool when it comes to matters of [...]
  • Week 2 – Worldwide Campaign to Save the Gran ...
    The Grand Canyon is one of the world's most pristine and majestic treasures. Mother Nature needs our help to save it. We all need to act to protect the Grand Canyon. Pledge to do your part. Help us by adding your signature to the petitions and ask everyone you know and who cares for earth to do the ...
  • Seize BP Demonstrations Nationwide
    SEN believes these demonstrations will help awaken politicians to outrage over inadequate regulation and control of international corporations, even if they do not succeed in gaining temporary seizure of BP on the basis of national emergency and evidence of criminal neglect and fraud by BP.
  • Petition for Global Warming Facts on Fox
    SEN's Co-Founder Gregory Hilbert told Huffington bloggers Mary Ellen Harte PhD and John Harte PhD of cooltheearth, "The Discovery Palin Alaska petition-condemnation-boycott campaigns by Defenders of Wildlife, Credo, Change.org, Center for Biodiversity, Care2 Petitioners, Facebook groups and SEN have ...

If Americans Knew

  • As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed at ...
    Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage at h ...
  • An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Clinic: ...
    I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again on Ga ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner whic ...
  • The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised as ...
    John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
  • A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and love ...
    We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine providence ...

David J. Gregory

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    Join our community page by CLICKING HERE, a social networking page of like minded individuals! Our page is intended to bring people together in an environment of less advertisement with a hope of sorting through propaganda in life and discovering the truth.
  • JFK deathbed confession | Big news Repost from Bor ...
    Truth is stranger than fiction, the best screenwriters that ever lived would never be able to come up with the truth of John F. Kennedy's assassination or that of 911.
  • Conservative Conundrum
    Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because s ...
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Unsuitable Blog

  • Mother Nature Network: A Hypocritical Crock Of Shi ...
    I make no apologies for the title of this post: I have just spent a short while reading the biographies of the Mother Nature Network Team, and have ended up in the kind of moral position that Immanuel Kant might have struggled with if he had had the internet to contend with in his philosophical [... ...
  • The Unsuitablog’s Worst of 2010
    Taking a cue from all the awards and “looking back on”s going on at the moment, it seems like just the right time to pick the very worst ethical hypocrites of 2010. Taking the year as a whole, there is a huge selection to choose from even when just looking at the pages of The [...]
  • Undermining in 2010: How Did I Do?
    There is something very human in looking back over a specific period of time and reflecting on what you have achieved, failed in or could just have done a bit better. It’s part of the learning process that civilization discourages, because if we really did look back and reflect upon what really matt ...
  • EnviroLeaks : Now Live
    EnviroLeaks is a repository of leaked information that fills the gap between what the mainstream media allow us to know about the environmentally destructive behaviour of the industrial system, and the often highly classified and largely political information from groups such as WikiLeaks. EnviroLea ...
  • EnviroLeaks – Coming Soon…
    Watch this space for more information. Secure email in advance to farnish [at] hushmail [dot] com Nothing is as it seems…

Subalternate Reality

  • Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
    Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…”  Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constructi ...
  • Wealthy Far More Likely To Default On Mortgages
    crossposted at Political Correction For much of the past two years, Congressional Republicans have wasted few opportunities to blame poor and working class Americans for the financial meltdown and the subsequent recession. They’ve argued that through well-intentioned government initiatives, includ ...
  • GOP House Candidate: Mosque Near Ground Zero Is A ...
    Conservative activists and the Muslim-baiters among them are furious about a proposed Islamic community center to be built near Ground Zero.  The debate has become entirely unhinged and some of the more hateful folks are using the controversy as a rallying cry to oppose the construction of all futur ...
  • Ex-Muslim Ergun Caner Is A Fraud
    Ergun Caner is one of the most prominent figures in the evangelical movement. He is also one of the most deceptive. A self-professed Muslim convert to Christianity, Caner plays an important, and arguably dangerous, role in the community. After the 9/11 attacks, when many Americans were searching for ...
  • Aliou Kumbaya
    My brother Aliou Niasse has saved the day.  He was the first to spot smoke coming out of the Nissan Pathfinder that Faisal Shahzad intended to detonate in crowded Times Square. Thankfully, the incompetence of Shahzab and the alertness of Niasse and two other gentlemen, both of whom are Vietnam War v ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • LocalWiki: Laying the Groundwork
    A few of you have been wondering what we've been up to since our Kickstarter pledge drive ended, so we want to give you a quick update on our Knight-funded project, LocalWiki. For those of you who are more technically inclined, we hope to also provide an insight into these early stages of our proces ...
  • NPR's Project Argo Creates National Content at the ...
    Jason and the Argonauts were the mythological Greek heroes who set off on a quest for the Golden Fleece. Like its namesake, NPR's Project Argo is off on another noble quest -- to strengthen local journalism, particularly on digital platforms. Project Argo is a partnership between NPR and member sta ...
  • Introducing Sourcerer: A Context Management System
    If you want to follow the news, the web has a lot to offer: a wide variety of information sources, powerful search tools, and no shortage of sites where people can voice their opinions. At the same time, though, the web can be overwhelming. Hundreds of links turn up in a Google search. Relevant inf ...
  • How OpenStreetMap Helps to Curb Haiti's Cholera Ep ...
    In order to respond to the current cholera epidemic in Haiti, it's essential that citizens, aid groups and others are aware of the locations of functioning health and sanitation facilities. The challenge is that maps showing this information don't currently exist -- at least not in a comprehensive a ...
  • Altering Docs? Now There's a Tool for That in Docu ...
    When we embarked on the DocumnetCloud project, tools for altering documents were the furthest thing from our minds. After all, a responsible journalist doesn't tweak source documents! But one of the first papers to embed material using DocumentCloud needed to do just that. The Chicago Tribune acc ...

Cutting Edge News

  • America on Edge - Joint Hill Conference Slated to ...
    The chairman of the House Democratic Caucus said Sunday that lawmakers will meet for a special joint conference on Wednesday to discuss security measures and concerns in the wake of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) in her home district Saturday.Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.) spoke to re ...
  • Book Review - Student Atheletes Take More Batterin ...
    Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform by Ronald A. Smith. (University of Illinois Press, 2011), 360 pages.The already-battered image of the “student-athlete” took more hits in 2010. The 2005 Heisman Trophy winner, Reggie Bush, returned his trophy when it came out that he had be ...
  • Great American Conferences - Historic Scholars Con ...
    Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, a non-profit organization formed by leading academics seeking to dispel violent racism and anti-Semitism, is planning a historic interdisciplinary academic conference on the diplomatic and strategic relationship between the US and Israel over the last half cent ...
  • America's Economic Recovery - Foretelling America’ ...
    The science of foretelling was apparently revered by the ancients. Examples abound of oracles divining the fates of wise men and kings. Mighty warriors Odysseus and Agamemnon would not dare sally forth less the portents augured in their favor. The balance of chances measured in scattered bones, anim ...
  • America's Farms on Edge - American Farm Workers an ...
    Innovation, and job outsourcing have eliminated or changed thousands of jobs in farming of crops such as cotton, pecans, chile peppers, onions, and other products and foodstuffs. At the same time, many of the long-time conditions of farm work-temporary or seasonal employment, minimum wage violations ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Happy As A Hangman
    By Chris HedgesThose who do not carry out acts of rebellion, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant, are guilty of solidifying and perpetuating these crimes. Those who do not act delude themselves into believing they are innocent. They are not
  • WikiLeaks: What, Really, Is The Problem?
    By Alan HartAlan Harts vote of confidence for WikiLeaks and Julian Assange and an indictment on the mainstream media for the way it reported the leaks
  • Assange Rape Accuser Linked To Notorious CIA Opera ...
    By David EdwardsOne of the women that is accusing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of sex crimes appears to have worked with a group that has connections to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
  • The Truth Will Always Win
    By Julian Assange In its landmark ruling in the Pentagon Papers case, the US Supreme Court said only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. The swirling storm around WikiLeaks today reinforces the need to defend the right of all media to reveal the truth
  • The Arrest Of Julian Assange: Truth In Chains
    By Chris FloydWell, they got him at last. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the target of several of the worlds most powerful governments, turned himself into British authorities today and is now at the mercy of state authorities who have already shown their wolfish and lawless desire to destro ...

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Sharing the writing of another Stieber
    My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing our [ ...
  • Article in FOR
    The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out: http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement   Rhetoric and Realit ...
  • Slate Interview: My Country Right or Wrong: Consci ...
    Interview I did with a fascinating writer for SLATE whose special interest is on transformation and how people come to admit they’re wrong:   Address to article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/12/16/my-country-right-or-wrong-conscientious-objector-josh-stieber-on-being-w ...
  • Dangerous Activity Thwarted in Afghanistan!
  • Tenth Year of War, March to Stop Deployment of Tra ...
    Thursday marked the beginning of the 10th year of war in Afghanistan. There is much to protest about U.S. action there–some performed a die-in to highlight the use of drones (http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/200657/us-drone-kills-7-militants-in-nw-pakistan)–and a group of veterans of The Global ...

Yid With Lid

  • Sarah Palin Issues Video Statement Condemning the ...
    Ever since that horrible shooting in Tucson Arizona this past Saturday, progressives in the mainstream and new media, along with members of congress have been attacking the tea party movement, Sarah Palin and conservative media figures, unfairly trying to place the blame for the horrible shooting sq ...
  • Who Knew? Egyptian TV Says The “Jooose” Forced The ...
    Boy oh boy, those moderates in Egypt sure know history. In fact some times they understand History better than anybody else in the world, even better than any historical record written at the time the event happened. Take for example the story of the Roman invasion of Egypt during the time of Cleopa ...
  • Revealed! Why Nancy Pelosi Now Flies Southwest Air ...
    Its Tuesday, that means it's time for Newsbusted from Newsbusters.org.� In this episode we learn why Nancy Pelosi flies Southwest now that she lost the private jet, scientists new discovery of the fastest unit of time ever measured, all about the new Jersey Shore cast member,� more about Robert Gibb ...
  • A Modest Proposal to End The Progressive Media Tus ...
    �Note To Reader: In order to make sure this article will be read by progressives, I asked a friend of that persuasion to scrub the post below for objectionable terms so please excuse the "cross-outs" Sometimes it�s very hard not to feel empathy for the progressive media; their arguments keep ge ...
  • If One Extremist Gunmen Can Do So Much Damage in A ...
    By Barry Rubin When one crazed or ideologically obsessed gunman starts shooting in Arizona, people condemn him and start bemoaning the state of their society. How about a place with ten million people like that who are treated as heroes? America this week is awash in a huge and passion ...

The Real Agenda

  • Aluminum in vaccines causing aluminum Allergies
    NaturalNews.com January 10, 2011 An allergic reaction to aluminum used to be extraordinarily rare. That’s not true any more, however, and researchers have been baffled for an explanation. Now it appears one has been found. It turns out that as the number of vaccinations people are given has increase ...
  • Controllers Mask Internet Control with ‘Conv ...
    Obama readying Internet ID for Americans.  Will it be mirrored elsewhere? By Luis R. Miranda Efforts to accelerate internet control to ´harmonized´ standards has taken a leap forward.  United States president  Barack Obama has proposed that the Commerce Department head a cybersecurity initiative to ...
  • Contaminación con Dioxina rastreada a Pesticidas
    Residuos de pesticidas se encuentran en el origen de la contaminación con dioxinas de los aceites y grasas industriales utilizados para la producción de piensos para animales en Alemania. EFE Lunes 10 de Enero Residuos de pesticidas se encuentran en el origen de la contaminación con dioxinas de los ...
  • Big Pharma’s Business Model
    By Luis R. Miranda As a former chemist at two of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the planet, Shane Ellison knows exactly how Big Pharma works.  The business model these corporations follow is based on the creation of synthetic drugs to treat symptoms.  That is right, symptoms; not disease.  ...
  • “O Autoritarismo é o estado natural da Human ...
    O professor David Shearman, conselheiro do IPCC das Nações Unidas diz que os humanos são um “eco-tumor maligno” e um “câncer ecológico”. Versão Português Luis R. Miranda Um professor influente que foi consultor do IPCC das Nações Unidas pediu para que a democracia para seja substituída por ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind Turbine Ice Safety Notice
    As with any tall structures, please use caution when approaching wind turbines when potential icing conditions exist. Potential icing conditions can occur at any time during the colder months. Caution should be exercised from November to April inclusive. The 110 turbine Underwood Wind Farm of EOWP i ...
  • Wind turbine opponents turn out in North Kingstown
    NORTH KINGSTOWN � Several hundred people showed up at the North Kingstown High School auditorium Tuesday night for a Planning Commission hearing on a proposal to build a controversial 427-foot wind turbine at Stamp Farm on Route 2. Richard Pastore, chairman of the commission, said it was one of the ...
  • Wind power could put birds at risk
    One of the nation’s largest bird conservation groups says rapid construction of wind energy projects will endanger several avian species. That includes the whooping crane, a famous migratory bird and annual visitor to central Nebraska. Officials with American Bird Conservancy on Wednesday cited data ...
  • Hammond wind panel adopts home guarantee
    HAMMOND – Is the Hammond Wind Committee nailing the coffin on the town’s chances of hosting an Iberdrola-owned wind farm? The committee voted 9 to 1 Tuesday evening – with committee member and leaseholder, Michele W. McQueer, casting the lone dissenting vote – to adopt the controversial Residential ...
  • Blumenthal urges tough standards for siting of win ...
    Hartford – Attorney General Richard Blumenthal called on state officials to draft strict standards for the siting of wind power projects in Connecticut, including two that have generated local controversy in Colebrook and Prospect. Blumenthal, who was conducting what was likely his last press confer ...

Not My Tribe

  • Tripoli and the Original Intent of the Founding Gr ...
    You know the first line of the Marine Corps Hymn, ends with “to the shores of Tripoli”So, why, exactly, was Tripoli so important? Well, since American Capitalism was and still is heavily dependent on goods and services produced by Slavery, an important slave-shipping region like the Barbary Coast (N ...
  • Guardian redacts passages disparaging Capitalism f ...
    The beauty of the Wikileaks model is simultaneous releases through multiple news outlets as well as on its own site to keep them honest. The Guardian has been caught redacting not just names, but entire passages which would be unflattering to British politicians, oil companies and CAPITALISM. About ...
  • Revolution_2.0
    Seems the Fake Revolutionary TeaBags are up in “arms” (carried by other people) over some on the Left and the middle and even the right taking notice that they basically told the Tucson Kid to go and murder human beings, that it was OK with them. Saying now that he was a “misfit” and “psychotic” [.. ...
  • On 9th anniversary of illegal Gitmo prison: Close ...
    Is that disrespectful? IS THAT BEING TOO IMPOLITE? Is that showing INSUFFICIENT DEFERENCE TO THE TORTURER-IN-CHIEF who promised to close Guantanamo two years earlier but avers now because he was not allocated the funds to lock-up the prisoners elsewhere, or can’t find courts for his kangaroos? –beca ...
  • US vexed Swiss will support peace not peacekeeping ...
    In a cable dated Dec 2, 2008, our ambassador to Switzerland laments that US-Swiss relations “lack the natural intimacy and trust” because “U.S. and Swiss soldiers never fought side-by-side in a war, no Swiss town felt an emotional bond to the U.S. for a past liberation or economic assistance program ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • WTC7 Explosion Video A Fake?
    First off, here is the video in question. Joseph Nobles of ae911truth.info points out in his post "Explosion on 'Seven’s Exploding' Video is Not Original," that the firefighter in the clip does not say "seven's exploding," but rather "the city’s explodin." After taking this into consideration and ...
  • The Year in Duh-Bunking: February
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog writes: The Year in Troof: February Follies Gage's Gaggle held their 1000th signer press conference and celebration. Steven Jones chose this opportunity to speculate that perhaps the New World Order had caused the Haiti earthquake. Sibel Edmonds became a 9 ...
  • Skeptics eating up Big Pharma crucifixion of Dr An ...
    The British Medical Journal has published a report by journalist Brian Deer and accused Dr Andrew Wakefield, the doctor who in 1998 published a study suggesting a link between the MMR vaccine and autism, of fraud. Over the last 12 years there has been considerable media misrepresentation of Andre ...
  • Merry Christmas from me, and from NORAD!
    Me (2007) NORAD (1965!) http://noradsanta.wikia.com/
  • The Reading Comprehension of Debunkers...
    ...never ceases to amaze me. Youtuber "TheSkepticalIdealist" recently commented on my video "Demolition Expert Debunks the Debunkers" and tried to misrepresent the expertise of Tom Sullivan. I pointed out to him that Sullivan's position at CDI was not just a photographer, but also a Powder Carrie ...

Fooducate

  • 8 Things to Know About Cream of Tartar
    Anna, a Fooducate community member asks: My mother-in-law told me not to use Cream of Tartar, that her mother said it’s bad. Anyone know if she’s right??? Good question. What you need to know: 1. Cream of Tarter is actually a white, odorless powder. You can find it conveniently packaged in the spice ...
  • Fooducate Explained in 50 seconds [Music Video]
    Happy Monday everyone – Get Fooducated! Get Fooducated: iPhone App RSS Subscription or Email Subscription Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/fooducate on facebook: facebook.com/fooducate
  • Coming Soon? Warning Labels on Soda Pop
    Most of us know that too sugary soft drinks are not a nutritious choice. Now, consumer advocacy group CSPI wants warning labels on them, just like cigarettes: In a letter to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, the health advocates said that the agency should use its authority to require a rotating se ...
  • Funny Flowchart for Choosing Food at the Supermark ...
    We all know how hard it is to choose healthy food at the supermarket. If you don’t already have an iphone with Fooducate’s free app, this flowchart may be the next best thing. Kinda. Thanks to flowchart creator Darya Pino, neuroscience PhD, columnist, and foodie. Check out her excellent blog Summer ...
  • So, You Think You’re Eating Healthy…
    Here’s a perplexing mathematical puzzle – If 2 out of 3 Americans are overweight or obese, how can it be that 9 out of 10 Americans (think they) are eating healthfully? That’s what Consumer Reports wants to know, and a recent article explains why so many of us get it wrong: We found that Americans [ ...

Traffikd

  • How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blogs i ...
    To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.
  • Blogging Event Ideas to Spice Up Your Blog
    If you've ever gone to an industry conference, film festival, grand opening, or author signing, then you can appreciate the energy such events can create. Industry conferences gather together the best and brightest minds in order to share ideas and plan for the future. Film festivals celebrate great ...
  • Increasing Your Blog’s Interactivity: 10 Tips for ...
    Guest post by Alexis Bonari Success in attracting and retaining readers is often influenced by a blog’s level of interactivity. Many readers are more active than passive and want to feel like they have a role in affecting a blog’s content, design, structure, and overall ongoing conversation. Posts ...
  • 5 Facebook Apps That Really Make Money
    Guest post by Alexis Bonari If you aren't on Facebook by now, you are probably the only one who isn't. My grandmother has a Facebook page and anyone who can type, is able to start their own page with no problem. Most everyone uses Facebook as a social meeting place, but did you know that you coul ...
  • Online Profits Re-Opens (and now it’s free)!
    Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips started a membership site, Online Profits, last year to help people learn about making money online. Daniel has just re-launched and re-vamped Online Profits, and this time there is no charge to get all of the valuable content. The only requirement is that you open a ...

Survival International

  • Travesty of justice for human rights defender
    Dr Binayak Sen, human rights defender, starts his life sentence for sedition, India. © Anon, use by special arrangement Indian human rights defender Dr Binayak Sen has been sentenced to life in prison under charges that Amnesty International has called âpolitically motivatedâ. Binayak Sen â a ...
  • Borneo indigenous leaders arrested
    Nicholas Mujah has been arrested for 'possession of seditious materials'. © Anon Police in Sarawak, in the Malaysian part of Borneo, have arrested two indigenous leaders for possession of ‘seditious materials’. The offices of the Sarawak Dayak Iban Association (SADIA) were raided and its secre ...
  • Borneo tribe launch legal case to save rainforest
    Penan men in the forest. © Andy Rain/Nick Rain/Survival Penan tribespeople in Sarawak, in the Malaysian part of Borneo, have launched a legal case against logging giant Samling. The hunter-gatherer Penan want to stop Samling cutting down the rainforest they have lived in for generations. The ...
  • Canadian rowers to cross Atlantic in support of tr ...
    Dylan (right), Nigel (center), and Zach (left) have been training for several months for their world record attempt. © D. White/Survival A team of 16 men and women will depart from Agadir, Morocco, in the next few days in an attempt to break the world record for the fastest East to West cross ...
  • Disease kills 15% of recently contacted tribe in p ...
    Marubo woman & children, Javari Valley, Brazil © Fiona Watson/Survival 15% of the recently contacted Korubo Indians in Brazil have died since the year 2000, as a result of inadequate health care. The alert has been raised by the Brazilian NGO the Center for Indigenous Work (Centro de Trabalho ...

Greg Palast

  • Shake your head and throw something at your TV
    from MoviesOnline.ca Bush Family Fortunes is a documentary that will make you shake your head and want to throw something at your TV. If even half of what BBC investigative reporter Greg Palast reveals is true and you happen to be an American you may or may not be calling for a revolution depending ...
  • Peak Oil and a Changing Climate
    from The Nation The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health, while warming the globe in the process. But beyond the damage these fuels cause to us now, what will happen when the world's supply of oil runs o ...
  • Palast ArrestedBusted by BP in Azerbaijan
    by Greg Palast BP's Azeri police arresting Palast for filming BP oil rig - Baku, Azerbaijan, December 2010"Here in Azerbaijan we believe in human rights. PLEASE GIVE US YOUR FILM." Oh, no, no, not good. The enforcers here come in three colors:  the military police still wearing their old Russian ...
  • The Real Wiki Hero
    by Marta Steele from OpEdNews with a Surprise P.S. from Greg Palast Is it not ironic that the same country that contributed Rupert Murdoch to the world has more recently donated Julian Assange, editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks since 2007, when it was founded to "report on and publish important informat ...
  • WIKI-CREEP ASSANGE, THE SCAMPPvt. Bradley, the Cha ...
    by Greg Palast for Truthout/Buzzflash I'm a "hero" and it makes me want to puke.  This week I was voted a "Hero of the Media" in one of those fairly harmless polls that are little more than thermometers of face time on the idiot box. But this Nation Magazine gong is shared with Julian Assange, imp ...

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Why I’m Against Current Wars—and Most Foreseeable ...
    No, I’m not against all wars.  But I’m against the Afghan war, the “secret” war in Yemen, the occupation of Iraq, and any war with Iran under any circumstances I can imagine. Why? Because: They are moronic (in the sense that they cannot be “won” and I oppose unwinnable wars); The US is in steep [... ...
  • The right wing isn’t going to stop violent rhetori ...
    In light of the attempted murder of Representative Giffords, in which others did die, many on the left have been saying that Republicans need to stop violent rhetoric, because some people take it seriously.  Crazies in some cases. (Note that it’s not clear that Loughner was necessarily one of them, ...
  • Two bloggers who could use a helping hand
    Times are tough, all around, and I know that’s true of many of my readers. It’s also true of a couple of good bloggers.  The first is Roy Edroso of Alicublog, who skewers the right in fine style.  He’s down and out, living with a friend and could use a helping hand if you can [...]
  • Afghan fatality rates are treading water at best
    Insurgencies will take heavier casualties than most counter-insurgent and main body forces because the insurgents tend to be much more lightly armed, lightly armored and do not have widespread access to both an extensive base infrastructure or medevac helicopters.  However, popular insurgencies that ...
  • Stasis off Somalia
    In 2008, piracy off the Somali coast became a medium size news story.  The International Maritime Bureau has the data: The 2008 figures surpass all figures for hijacked vessels and hostages taken recorded by the PRC since it began its worldwide reporting function in 1992. In 2008 there was a worldwi ...

Age of Autism

  • FAQs About the BMJ Wakefield Editorial and the Lau ...
    By Louise Kuo Habakus and Mary Holland The actual news content in last week’s media firestorm about Dr. Andrew Wakefield didn’t seem to warrant the level of media frenzy it received. Am I wrong or is this old news? The...
  • Dr. Julie Buckley On Treating Underlying Medical C ...
    By Anne Dachel A few months ago, I watched the trailer and the complete video to Shots in the Dark, a film about vaccine injury in multiple countries. It showed, among other things, parents with autistic children who told their...
  • Support Age of Autism
    Wow, we were shot out of a cannon into 2011, weren't we? Thank you for your readership and comments. We have a rich slate of topics and some wonderful changes coming in soon. Our sponsors are working harder than ever...
  • UK Article Questions Mercury in Children's Flu Jab ...
    What a difference a Continent makes... Read the manufacturer's response at the end of the article. Up to a million under-fives have been inoculated against the flu virus with a controversial vaccine containing poisonous mercury. Pandemrix has been given to...
  • CryShame Response to BMJ Report
    From UK's CryShame: PARENTS OF AUTISTIC CHILDREN SPEAK OUT AGAINST BMJ CLAIMS THAT WAKEFIELD 'S RESEARCH WAS FRAUDULENT HERE WE GO AGAIN. Once again, the BMJ gives a platform for Brian Deer's investigation of the research behind Dr Andrew Wakefield...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Truth Squad Radio – Weekly Schedule!
    This Wednesday we will talk with RT Fitch about the wild horse roundup situation, and receive an update on how the FDA is allowing aluminum to poison our food supply.
  • Aluminum: An FDA GRAS Neurotoxin
    It is becoming increasingly clear on a daily basis that it is up to us to protect ourselves, because if we rely on government agencies such as the FDA to do it, we may just as well pour ourselves a nice big glass of GRAS poison and have a toast to our premature and highly painful demise.
  • The USDA’s Organic Deception
    “USDA Certified Organic” is a big business, and the deception is great. With a bit of sleight of hand, by simply moving a word around a bit, you have a complete subterfuge.
  • Truth Squad Radio – On Wednesdays Now!
    We will be discussing the USDA Certified Organic’s Dirty Little Secret: Neotame, as well as getting updates on other important issues.
  • USDA Certified Organic’s Dirty Little Secret: Neot ...
    Let me make this perfectly clear. Neotame does not have to be included in ANY list of ingredients! So, if you buy processed food, whether USDA Certified Organic or not, that food most likely will contain Neotame - a neurotoxin worse than Aspartame.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Suicide blast in Afghan capital kills four
    BBC – At least four people were killed when a suicide attacker rammed his motorcycle into a bus in the Afghan capital, Kabul, police told the BBC. The powerful blast in the western part of the city also injured eight others. Security sources said the bus was carrying members of the Afghan intelligen ...
  • Schwab in $119 million SEC accord, two execs charg ...
    Reuters – Charles Schwab Corp will pay $118.9 million to settle regulatory charges that it hid from investors the mortgage-related risks in a seemingly safe, multibillion-dollar bond mutual fund. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced the settlement and filed a civil lawsuit charging ...
  • Call for full access to Tamiflu trial data to allo ...
    Physorg – Leading researchers today call for access to all clinical trial data (published and unpublished) to allow drugs to be independently assessed by the scientific community. Tom Jefferson and colleagues from the Cochrane Group argue that the current system for assessing the safety and effectiv ...
  • Goldman opens books to scrutiny, no wider shake-up
    Reuters – Goldman Sachs Group Inc pledged to be more open about how it makes money and to put the interests of clients ahead of its own in an effort to rebut criticism it acted more like a hedge fund than a bank during the credit boom and misled investors. Goldman revealed for the first [...]
  • Australian Greens received $27,000 foreign donatio ...
    The Australian – THE Greens received close to $27,000 from one overseas source to fight last August’s poll, but weeks after election day banned foreign donations as part of their accord with Julia Gillard to keep Labor in power. The gift is revealed in a list of donations to the party of $1500 or mo ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Delta water official presses agriculture to use wa ...
    “I think it’s long past time that the state focus on what is really a reasonable and beneficial use of our water,” said Pacific Institute President Peter Gleik, who has argued that California agriculture could cut its water use by 10-15% if it adopted more sophisticated irrigation techniques. “There ...
  • California utility adds to its renewable portfolio
    Southern California Edison continues to add to its renewable-energy portfolio, announcing Monday that it signed contracts for more than 800 megawatts of electricity generated from solar photovoltaic plants being built in three California counties. The utility is now the nation’s...
  • ‘Addicted to Energy’ : A venture capitalist's plan ...
    A venture capitalist gives tips for efficiency
  • Fluoride in drinking water: Will the EPA get tough ...
    Environmental health groups are now looking to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to impose tougher standards on fluoride in drinking water, building on a decision Friday by the federal Department of Health and Human Services to lower the recommended level...
  • House Republicans get early warning from Californi ...
    "This committee will remain vigilant to ensure that politics and special interests do not interfere with the ability of the EPA and the states to act in accordance with the law to respond to what the scientists are telling us,’’ Boxer said.

water.org

  • Bill Clinton keynote speaker for Hult Challenge (P ...
    President Bill Clinton to Deliver Keynote at Hult International Business School’s 2nd Annual Global Case Challenge (PR Newswire) BOSTON – Hult International Business School announced today that President Clinton will serve as this year’s keynote speaker and personally present awards to the winning t ...
  • Lowe’s Foundation donating $1M to 4 charitie ...
    Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation Donating a Total of $1 Million to Four Environmental Charities through Online Campaign – Each charity will receive $100,000; Consumers will help decide how remaining $600,000 is divided (Business Wire) MOORESVILLE, N.C. â Loweâs and the Loweâs Charitable ...
  • Zynga – Play it Forward for Water.org (FF)
    Zynga Asks Farmers to âPlay it Forwardâ for Charity (FarmvilleFreak) – Playing your favorite Zynga game such as FarmVille will trigger a $0.10 donation to charity recipients benefiting both Water.org and Save the Children. Read full Farmville Freak article.
  • Give: Water.org (Green Spot Blue World)
    Give: Water.org (Green Spot Blue World) – Nearly 1 billion people lack clean, safe drinking water. Thatâs astounding. Astounding, heartbreaking and in desperate need of change, which is exactly what Water.org has set out to do. Even better, you can help them. Surprisingly it takes very little from e ...
  • A crisis we can end by Gary White (Media Planet)
    A crisis we can end (Media Planet insert in the Washington Post) – The water crisis has many anglesâwater conservation, water rights conflicts, environmental impact, the list goes on and on. But in my view, the most urgent of all is this: today, one in eight people on earth lack access to safe drink ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

  • The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
    The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley break ...

Margaret's News

  • EU report on East Jerusalem reflects negative chan ...
    The far-ranging, sharply worded recommendations in the report drafted by European Union consul generals do not therefore point to a dramatic, negative change in Israel's policy toward Jerusalem. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Hamas urges Gaza militant groups to stop attacks o ...
    Several Hamas leaders have said a new Gaza war would inflict heavy casualties on Israel, but they also have spoken of a willingness for a reciprocal truce to facilitate the rebuilding of homes and infrastructure destroyed in the 2009 conflict.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
  • In the West Bank, everyone knows theres a culture ...
    Instead of arguing over how much tear gas is too much � ie, lethal � we should be discussing why tear gas is used at all. We should be discussing why Palestinian civilians have no recourse when they are brutalized by Israeli soldiers � often for no reasonSubmitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �No ...
  • Israel demolishes East Jerusalem hotel wing to cle ...
    The United States voiced its displeasure over the project to Israel's Washington ambassador in 2009 after the plan received the green light from Israel's Jerusalem municipality.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The IDF uses propaganda like an authoritarian regi ...
    Following the investigation into Jawaher's death, it is also necessary to investigate how the army dares to distort in this way. Perhaps it will disturb Israeli society more than the death of a demonstrator.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • UN Reports Thousands Displaced as Heavy Rains and ...
    The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has re-allocated funds to support the Government's aid efforts, and will provide 735 metric tons of food assistance to feed approximately 400,000 of those affected,
  • EPA Issues Guidance for Enhanced Monitoring of Ch ...
    The enhanced monitoring guidance provides recommendations on where the systems should collect samples and how often they should be collected, along with analytical methods for laboratory testing. Systems that perform the enhanced monitoring will be
  • Women Continue to Experience Physical and Emotiona ...
    Despite women's increased visibility in public spaces, better education and work opportunities, and changing social attitudes, women continue to experience physical and emotional violence, both within their homes and outside.
  • Puppetry Empowers Women in India
    The Rahales Little Theatre (RLT), MacBean's group, was set up 25 years ago, and she along with her over 400 puppets - each with a special name - and dedicated team members started on a long and fulfilling journey to discover a new world through C.E
  • NASA's Planck Mission Observes The Sky With Infrar ...
    The catalogue includes thousands of never-before-seen dusty cocoons where stars are forming and some of the most massive clusters of galaxies ever observed.

    libcom

  • Greeks take to buses and roads in new protests
    A new front is opening in the struggle between Greece’s Socialist government and its beleaguered subjects as public and private transport users co-ordinate mass sabotage in the face of spiralling prices. On January 8th angry public trans ...
  • Heinz beanz is being really meanz
    beans.jpg Alfred Stevens of Communist Students on the ongoing dispute at Heinz's factory in Wigan, Greater Manchester. The 1,200 striking workers at Europe’s biggest food manufactu ...
  • Gaza Youth's Manifesto for Change
    Surprised it had not been raised so far here on Libcom . Some pro-palistinain solidarity people consider it a divisive conspiracy but , hey , Hamas was sponsored by Mossad in its early days. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/02/fr ...
  • Croatia: Actions of solidarity with UK and Italian ...
    IMG_0099.jpg Short info about students struggle & solidarity. Last week, students in Croatia organized actions to express solidarity with their colleagues in UK and Italy who are p ...
  • Australia: Wharfies strike over conditions at Patr ...
    freo.jpg Maritime Union of Australia members in Patrick Stevedoring facilities at Fremantle, Albany, Melbourne's Webb Dock, and Geelong have voted overwhelmingly to take protected action after a secret b ...

Free Range International

  • You Can’t Handle the Truth
    The efforts of the international community to bring aid to Afghanistan, help develop the infrastructure with the goal of allowing Afghanistan a chance at self sufficiency are failing dismally.  That should not be a surprise to anyone with more than a passing knowledge of the international aid racket ...
  • Afghanistan’s Forgotten Province
    There are a couple of recent articles in the flood of coverage about Afghanistan which caught my eye last week.  The first is factually wrong but I understand what the author was saying and he is, in a sense correct.  The second is factually correct, I understand what that reporter was saying too an ...
  • Rules of Engagement
    I have written in the past about night raids and aggressive ISAF convoy tactics causing unnecessary civilian casualties.  I have also written on the importance of not allowing enemy fighters who attack ISAF units to live and fight another day.  Counterinsurgency requires adaptation and my annoyance ...
  • Healing Ulcer
    After only 90 days of fighting to root the Taliban out of a place they have owned for over a decade  Gen McChrystal called Marjah a bleeding ulcer. That was an unbelievably stupid assessment given the nature of the enemy, the rules of engagement placed on the Marines by the General, and the paltry a ...
  • Afghanistan Summary
    This summary comes from Sami the Finn a.k.a Sami Kovanen, the Senior Information Analyst at Indicium Consulting. Sami has been in Afghanistan for over six years now and is one of the best informed analyst working outside of the ISAF security bubble.  He was kind enough to let me post this update and ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • Jared Lee Loughner
  • Two Vital Ingredients of Freedom
    I was watching a History Channel documentary over the weekend, explaining how the Russian economy was manipulated in 1905 and how the Communist/Bolsheviks eventually came to power.  It apparently all began with the debasing of the Russian coinage followed by a systematic manipulation of the volume ...
  • NATIONAL INFLATION ASSOCIATION PREDICTIONS
    The National Inflation Association is pleased to announce its top 10 predictions for 2011. 1) The Dow/Gold and Gold/Silver ratios will continue to decline. In NIA’s top 10 predictions for 2010, we predicted major declines in the Dow/Gold and Gold/Silver ratios. The Dow/Gold ratio was 9.3 at the time ...
  • 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.  ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

  • Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny hou ...
    Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring  just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plans fo ...
  • Air powered environmentally friendly car being pro ...
    Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re in ...
  • Deforestation – environmental & human effect ...
    There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen.  In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain temper ...
  • Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here’s ...
    Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing to do ...
  • Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
    It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM says t ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Ed Clark, TD Bank President and CEO (Dec 11, 2010)
    It's now one of the biggest, most powerful banks anywhere -- and it's Canadian. Leading it, a former Ottawa bureaucrat, who walks into the boardrooms of Bay Street and Wall Street with a confidence reserved for the world's most influential business leaders. Ed Clark is our guest this week - and you ...
  • Elvis Costello, singer/songwriter (Nov 27, 2010)
    His music captures the times we live in and its been doing so for forty years. He's never been shy about issues, and Elvis Costello isn't today. He's here to talk music, politics and activism.
  • James Cameron, Director and Activist (Oct 2, 2010)
    He's one of Hollywood's most powerful figures, and, he's been one of the oil sands most vocal critics. That combination had the oil industry on edge when Avatar director, Canadian James Cameron visited Alberta.
  • Tony Blair, former British PM (Sept 11, 2010)
    He was British prime minister for a decade of change and controversy. This week, as his book "A Journey" hits shelves around the world, Tony Blair is our guest.
  • Steve Nash, Two-time NBA MVP (Sept 19, 2009)
    He's one of the best basketball players on the planet, and he's made millions at it. But there's more to this week's guest than just the game. A lot more. This Canadian now makes his name on the courts, in the movies, and doing some pretty good things around the world. This week, he's our guest.

Scotts Contracting

  • FREE WEBINAR: Sustainable Refurbishment and Solar ...
    FREE WEBINAR: Sustainable Refurbishment and Solar Heating for the Home Click here for free registration Join the authors of Sustainable Home Refurbishment and Solar Domestic Water Heating for an event that offers guidance to anyone wanting to improve the energy … Continue reading →
  • Clean Energy Dirtied by Politicians
    In an Age of Compromise, Will Clean Energy Become Dirty? By Ron Pernick, Clean Edge Based on the actions of a very active lame duck Congress last month, we could be moving into a new age of compromise. By crossing … Continue reading →
  • Dept of Energy 600 Million Biorefinery Projects
    Secretaries Chu and Vilsack Announce More Than $600 Million Investment in Advanced Biorefinery Projects Private company investment brings total to nearly $1.3 billion for 19 biorefinery projects to create jobs and new markets for rural America Washington, D.C. â U.S. … Continue reading →
  • BIO Feul News from AZ
    About Fulcrum BioEnergy Based in Pleasanton, California, Fulcrum BioEnergy is emerging as a leading company in the development of the next-generation of ethanol production in the United States. The privately-held company focuses on developing, owning and operating efficient, environmentally responsi ...
  • US Dept of Energy-Residential Efficiency Webinar 1 ...
    January 18: National Residential Efficiency Measures Database Unveiled The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Building Technologies Program is offering a Webinar on Tuesday, January 18, 2011, from 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Eastern titled "National Residential Efficiency Measures Database Unveiled." Register ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • آجر گران شد
    -  افزایش قیمت سوخت ناشی از اجرای قانون هدفمند کردن یارانه ها تمام قیمتها را دستخوش تغییر کرده است، بر این اساس، حواله نفت کوره از 200 هزار تومان به پنج میلیون و 200 هزار تومان رسیده و قیمت تولیدات این بخش از جمله آخر را چند برابر کرده است.
  • هفت نفر از محكومان جرايم مواد مخدر اعدام شدند
    هفت نفر از محكومان جرايم مواد مخدر كه از سوي دادگاه‌هاي انقلاب اسلامي تهران به اعدام محكوم شده بودند، سحرگاه امروز ‌به دار مجازات آويخته شدند.
  • Iran and Qatar make biolateral ties for the birds?
    Iran and Qatar are still interested in working together on environment projects. This time dealing with protecting endangered local animal species.  A new agreement was signed...which follows  a Memorandum of Understanding  signed last February by the two men, [that] also included working jointly on ...
  • Iran accuses Israel of assassinating nuclear scien ...
    Iran on Tuesday accused Israel of assassinating its nuclear scientist and vowed to sue the issue legally. Iran's Intelligence Ministry said that it had dismantled an Israeli spying network and arrested a group of its terrorist spies who were linked to the assassination of its nuclear scientist.
  • Iran Jails Another Lawyer
    This week Iran's judicial authorities sentenced my friend Nasrin Sotoudeh, a human rights lawyer, to 11 years in prison. Her case has attracted only modest attention in the West, but it is the latest example of Iran's unrelenting crackdown on dissent. It deserves greater notice.read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Social Fragmentation: Implications for Activists
    What Does Collapse Look Like? “Collapse” could mean the collapse of the US dollar or economy, the electrical or telecommunications grid, food distribution or all of the above. It could also mean the breakdown of federal political authority into local or regional units or of law and order into major ...
  • Empire Building and Social Fragmentation
    Vaknin’s fourth criterion for a semi-failed state is that it replaces rational infrastructure reconstruction and policy making with empire building. In his view irrational empire building is a signal that a semi-failed state is in the final stages of becoming a failed state. He gives four examples. ...
  • Petition to Indict Sarah Palin
    Please sign the on-line petition to indict Sarah Palin for incitement to violence, related to designating Arizona Congresswoman Jessica Giffords with a gun target on her website: CLICK HERE: http://www.petitiononline.com/IndictSP/ There is ample evidence from Palin’s public speeches and commentary ...
  • Is the US a Pariah State?
    Sam Vaknin’s third criterion for a semi-failed state is that other countries regard it with derision, fear and abhorrence. This, like Americans’ attitude towards government, is hard to measure objectively. My personal experience, in talking to New Zealanders and other immigrants willing to talk abou ...
  • Are Americans Disgruntled, Hostile, and Suspicious ...
    It seems it should be easy to blog about Vaknin’s 2nd criterion (see full criteria below) for a semi-failed state:  a disgruntled, hostile and suspicious citizenry. I don’t know anyone who thinks Obama has done a good job of running the country. Both right wing Republicans and left leaning progress ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • WHERE THE HELL WAS HOMELAND SECURITY?
    Nearly ten years after 9/11, and ten years of staggering spending on security,  ever expanding powers of government search and surveillance, terror alerts and terror warnings, ever more humiliating and intrusive searches to go on a  plane  (and coming soon searches in buses, malls, and train stat ...
  • War, Religion, Terrorism, and Other Random Nonsens ...
    My last post generated a number of thoughtful comments, so I thought I’d write a follow up post. Not to mention that my life has gotten extremely busy, I’m between Internet connections, and my main computer got an ugly virus. So I won’t have the time or the means to write dedicated posts in the [... ...
  • The Year and the Decade in Review, Short Version: ...
    Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. And what a year and a decade it’s been. We’ve come a long ways since the odometer rolled over in 2000, and are a decade into a century I could barely imagine when I was a young [...]
  • The 1914 Christmas Truce Revisited
    The people in the above photograph are all dead. Most of them have been dead for decades, some of them more than likely were dead within a few years or less of the date when this photograph was taken. They are German and British troops on Christmas day, 1914. In the two years since I [...]
  • Another Symptom of the Colonial Mind Set: Internat ...
    Last week the “International Protecting Girls by Preventing Child Marriage Act” failed in the House of Representatives, despite passing unanimously in the Senate. This was a “bipartisan” bill ostensibly designed to “require the federal government to develop a plan to combat child marriage with the g ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

  • Economic Musings VI: Modern Economies – Dyin ...
    There is a great debate in the history of economics whether there can be under-consumption in any real historic moment of the state of an economy and if so, whether it has detrimental effects and if so, what is to be done about it. And modern economists seem to have found a magic wand with [...]
  • Blogs and Web Sites you may want to follow
    The following is a list of blogs and websites that CrisisMaven has followed and observed over the last few months and that readers may want to check out from time to time. Note: neither the sequence of how the blogs are listed here nor any comments by CrisisMaven are an endorsement nor criticism of ...
  • Economic Musings VII: Marketing doesn’t adve ...
    Have you ever wondered if marketing and advertising are the same, if not, what’s the difference and which is the more important of the two? And why should you care? The most successful economic model is without doubt the market economy. It is the consequence of the wealth effects of the division of ...
  • CrisisMaven’s Blog News 2010-03-07: Over 25,000 We ...
    Yesterday around 16:37 GMT we passed the 25,000 threshold … - next report will probably be posted when we’re past the 50,000 mark. Thanks to all avid readers: on 2010-03-18 at around 19:25 GMT we went past our first 20,000 views on our blog in about eight weeks since we began publishing! After that, ...
  • Economic Musings VIII: Is there a limit to economi ...
    Something which puzzles many thinkers and frightens many young people concerned about waste or the pillaging of our natural resources is the question: can “an economy” (whatever that is – we’ll come to that in a minute) grow indefinitely? How can there be unlimited economic growth if we’ve never hea ...

Capital Flow Analysis

  • Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further evid ...
    In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted. The following ...
  • Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagflatio ...
    The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest bus ...
  • How long would it take to work off the US trade de ...
    The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
  • Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy porte ...
    In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the current crisis. This articl ...
  • Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
    No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings were ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • When Economic Recovery Collides with Flat Oil Prod ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post A theme that I commonly discuss in articles and presentations is the problem of economic recovery when oil prices are high. If the market is well-supplied and there is ample excess oil production capacity, oil prices tend to be moderate and stable, and economi ...
  • Ethanol Exports Increase Dependence on Foreign Oil
    Join the forum discussion on this post Near the end of my recent post documenting some of the antics of various ethanol interests, I wrote the following: “As always, I invite a response from ethanol interests or readers who wish to dispute my points. If someone wishes to engage on these points, th ...
  • Supply Side Ramifications of the Gulf Spill
    Join the forum discussion on this post Shortly after the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, I wrote the following: BPâs Oil Rig Disaster May Bring an End to Support for New Offshore Exploration “I believe the long term implications of this incident will be to exacerbate our slide d ...
  • My Top 10 Energy Related Stories of 2010
    Join the forum discussion on this post Here are my choices for the Top 10 energy related stories of 2010. I can’t remember having such a difficult time squeezing this list down to 10 stories, because there were many important energy stories for 2010. It was hard to cut some of them from the Top [.. ...
  • Who’s Been Naughty? Ethanol Interests
    Join the forum discussion on this post The previous essay spoke of the selfishness of many of today’s political leaders in spending tax dollars for votes, while compromising the economic opportunities for the next generation. In this essay, I want to focus on the selfishness of a particular group: ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • 7 Key Food Trends for 2011: Make Them Work for a H ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—While most of us would likely love to eat a completely organic diet from 100 percent whole foods from the farmer's market all of the time, in this busy world, it's not always possible. So if you're planning on stepping foot inside a grocery store this year, it's good to know ...
  • How to Become an Informed Organic Consumer
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PAâBrace yourself. Now that organic sales are up, big food makers and industrial agriculture tycoons are nervous, and they're embarking on multibillion-dollar PR efforts to influence consumers into thinking factory farms, poisoned produce, and GMOs are necessary to feed the wor ...
  • Sub Fish for Red Meat and Prevent Stroke
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The good news about fish just keeps coming: A study published recently in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that eating fish reduces women’s risk of stroke. When Swedish researchers followed over 30,000 women over a 10-year period, those who ate more than thre ...
  • How Kids Can Turn Seeds into Cash
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Concordia College history professor Gretchen Harvey, PhD, is knee-deep in the healthy food movement. She's helped create an on-campus organic garden so students can learn to grow healthy food for the Minnesota school's dining services and the college farmer's market. She get ...
  • Mind-Body-Mood Advisor: The Power Of Breath
    Excerpted from The Mind-Body Mood Solution: The Breakthrough Drug-Free Program for Lasting Relief from Depression. RODALE NEWS, LENOX, MA—If we look at how a child develops, we can see exactly how breathing can become inhibited. One of the biggest challenges for a young child is learning to regulat ...

big think

  • How to See the World Like Malcolm Gladwell
    There is a point in every child's development where he begins to realize that the content of his parents' minds is different than that in his own, says author Malcolm Gladwell.�Yet adults often forget this fundamental realization, says Gladwell. "We always fall back on this notion that the rest of . ...
  • Lung Cancer: To Screen or Not to Screen?
    We baby boomers may be getting a little long in the tooth, but we sure know how to take good care of ourselves.� Or do we?� One of the greatest health threats we face is one over which we have limited control: lung cancer, the greatest cancer killer even among non-smokers.� It was once thought tha ...
  • Which Mother Knows Best? American or Chinese?
    The world of parenting was presented with a gentle and nudging article in the New York Times last week on the importance of maintaining an imaginative and fun environment for children.  The article captured the “growing movement to restore the sometimes-untidy business of play to the lives of ...Rea ...
  • Going Local to Break the Veil on Green Job Creatio ...
    At the Energy Innovation 2010 conference I attended last month, Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency Cathy Zoi said something that I found very interesting about Obama's economic stimulus package: "With 7,000 projects nationwide under management, the mystery of green jobs has dissipated... if . ...
  • Renewed activity prompts evacuations around Anak K ...
    I have made it back to Ohio from Minnesota today - no small feat considering all the snow across the middle part of the continent. Amazing how a little phase change can cause such a ruckus. I was greeted with new news from Indonesia when I got back to Granville. Anak Krakatau, the volcano that has ...

Information Liberation

  • Father Of 9 Year Old Murder Victim In Tucson Does ...
    The voice of reason has spoken. "You can't solve problems with guns." "We don't need any more restrictions in our society..." "If maybe the gunman had some friends and family around him prior to this, this wouldn't have happened." "I think...
  • "Toning Down The Rhetoric" Means Obeying Big Gover ...
    Despite the fact that Jared Lee Loughner was a psychotic loner with *left-wing* beliefs according to those who knew him, the establishment has hastily exploited yesterday*s tragic shooting in Tucson to demonize conservatives, libertarians and gun ...
  • Stefan Molyneux: Gabrielle Giffords, Jared Loughne ...
    Three issues you will never see in the mainstream media about the recent shooting -- from Freedomain Radio -- http://www.freedomainradio.com...
  • Decentralizing Our Water Resolves the Fluoridation ...
    This past Friday on the talk shows, Jason Lewis and Mark Levin were both discussing the controversy of fluoridation of the public water supplies, and Robert Wenzel linked to an AP story, and to an article by Murray Rothbard. Some people are say...
  • Geithner Says U.S. Insolvent
    The U.S. government is insolvent. Who says so? Timothy F. Geithner, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. Geithner sent a letter to Congress on Jan. 6, 2011 asking for the debt limit to be raised. If it is not raised, he warned, the U.S. w...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Ozboy’s Bar And Grill Is Closed For Repairs
    It’s only temporary. A couple of weeks. But the recent shenanigans round here have forced me to do some thinking about how LibertyGibbert can run better in the future. I’ve spoken to a couple of you about this today, to … Continue reading →
  • The Dragon’s Dissent Part III: Naked Nationa ...
    The emergence of China as the world’s new superpower has raised many questions in the international community and across the blogosphere regarding the longer-range agenda of the Middle Kingdom. In a recent discussion on this forum, the question of Chinese … Continue reading →
  • U.S. Elections: Will Liberty Win?
    Well today’s the day. As just about every other blog in the sphere is covering the elections today, I thought I’d throw the forum open, and we can discuss the results as they come in, in real time. If as … Continue reading →
  • Libertarianism And Drug Liberalization
    G’day everyone, Just arrived back home safe and sound. Sorry there hasn’t been a new post in several days, but just at the moment my family needs me more than the Bar and Grill does. Dr. Dave has graciously stepped … Continue reading →
  • Stealing Democracy?
    G’day everyone, Ozboy here. The United States mid-term elections are just one week away, and the mounting resentment many Americans feel about the way their country is being governed appears certain to be made clear at the polls. One of … Continue reading →

FAS - Secrecy News

  • CIA “Open Source Works” on Pakistani L ...
    “A review of the Pakistani media during October 2010 indicates that there is less talk of imminent political change.”  That is the rather pedestrian conclusion of a brief report (pdf) that was prepared last November by “Open Source Works,” a previously unknown initiative of the CIA Directorate of I ...
  • Aid to Pakistan Expected to Grow
    The Obama Administration is preparing to give increased military and economic aid to Pakistan, the Washington Post reported last weekend.  (“U.S. to Offer More Support to Pakistan” by Karen DeYoung, January 8.) Nearly $20 billion in civilian and military support has been provided to Pakistan betwee ...
  • Intel Science Board on “The New S&T Landscap ...
    The diminishing U.S. lead in various scientific disciplines related to national security has posed a particular challenge for U.S. intelligence agencies, according to a newly released 2006 report (pdf) of the Intelligence Science Board. “While the overall effect of a declining S&T [science and techn ...
  • Meeting Set on Sharing of Classified Info
    A new government advisory committee on access to classified information by state, local and other non-federal bodies will hold its first meeting in Washington tomorrow.  The State, Local, Tribal, and Private (SLTP) Sector Policy Advisory Committee “will advise the President, the Secretary of Homela ...
  • DoD Agencies Have Prohibited Waterboarding, IG Say ...
    Defense agencies have complied with a recommendation to prohibit the use of military survival training techniques — such as waterboarding — in prisoner interrogation, the DoD inspector general confirmed in a report (pdf) last year. In response to a previous Inspector General report (pdf), a 2008 DoD ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Science news
    Science news snippets International Year of Chemistry, "Naturally" – Nature's take on the launch of the International Year of Chemistry 2011 (IYC11) Stinging vision – A group of school children aged between 8 and 10 years old have had their school science project accepted for publication in an inter ...
  • Science news with a spectral twist
    Science news with a spectral twist, first 2011 issue of my spectroscopyNOW.com now live Fast-track walking pneumonia test – A new approach to testing for a common form of pneumonia using nanorod arrays to boost SERS signals can cut the time to diagnosis from several days to a mere ten minutes, accor ...
  • Invisible hairs cause baldness
    A topic close to my scalp: male-pattern baldness. Regular readers will be aware of my long, wavy locks from teenage years. But, as I got older, it all waved goodbye (my Dad’s joke! He’s even less than cranially hirsute too). Now, scientists in Pennsylvania reckon they have shown that faulty stem cel ...
  • Science books for the New Year
    These are my recent science book finds for the New Year The science of kissing – When did humans begin to kiss? Why is kissing integral to some cultures and alien to others? Do good kissers make the best lovers? And is that expensive lip-plumping gloss worth it? Sheril Kirshenbaum, a biologist and s ...
  • A lethal Christmas star
    There was an ugly rumour that the giant red star, Betelgeuse, that is the right shoulder (on the left as you look at it) of the constellation Orion is “about to” go supernova. The rumours seemed to have started earlier in the year when observations suggested that Betelgeuse had changed shape, a sure ...

RFF Library

  • Global Risks 2011: Sixth Edition
    World Economic Forum http://riskreport.weforum.org/global-risks-2011.pdf [From Executive Summary] The world is in no position to face major, new shocks. The financial crisis has reduced global economic resilience, while increasing geopolitical tension and heightened social concerns suggest that both ...
  • Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from U.S. Transp ...
    Pew Center on Global Climate Change / by David L. Greene and Steven E. Plotkin http://www.pewclimate.org/docUploads/Reducing_GHG_from_transportation.pdf [From press release] From burning oil, transportation accounts for more than one-fourth of all U.S. GHG emissions. The report, Reducing Greenhouse ...
  • Threats to At-Risk Species in America’s Private Fo ...
    US Forest Service / by Susan M. Stein, Mary A. Carr, Ro nald E. McRoberts, Lisa G. Mahal, and Sara J. Comas http://www.fs.fed.us/openspace/fote/at-risk-maps/gtr_nrs73.pdf More than 4,600 native animal and plant species associated with private forests in the United States are at risk of decline or ex ...
  • Land Availability for Biofuel Production
    Environmental Science and Technology, 2011 (v45 n1 2011, p334–339) / by Ximingcai  X iaozhang  and Dingbao  Wang (open access article) http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1021/es103338e Marginal agricultural land is estimated for biofuel production in Africa, China, Europe, India, South America, and ...
  • Handbook for Conducting Technology Needs Assessmen ...
    United Nations Development Programme http://content.undp.org/go/cms-service/stream/asset/?asset_id=2972062 [Website] This updated handbook by the United Nations Development Programme provides hands-on guidance for identifying the most effective technology options for poverty reduction and climate ch ...

Scientific American - News

  • Paying Waste: Sewage Contains More Usable Energy T ...
    Is what you flush down the toilet wasted energy? People living in countries with flush-toilets and running water produce a huge amount of wastewater daily. This water, thanks largely to excrement, is full of organic compounds that store usable energy in their chemical bonds. Several methods can be e ...
  • Link Between Media, Political Environment and Viol ...
    It wasn't long after the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others in Tucson, Ariz., that speculation emerged about a possible connection between the shooting and the contemporary U.S. political environment. [More]
  • Key Series of Events Helped Giffords Survive Gunsh ...
    People rarely survive gunshot wounds to the head, but so far Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, shot point blank in the back of her head on Saturday, has held on. Monday morning, her doctors indicated they were "slightly more optimistic" about her prognosis. In the wake of this brutal tragedy, it is ...
  • Hole's on First?: New Evidence Shows Black Hole Gr ...
    The co-evolution of black holes, almost unfathomable in their bulk, and the even more massive galaxies that host them remains poorly understood--a kind of chicken-and-egg problem on mammoth scales. Do black holes, such as the lunker in our own Milky Way Galaxy, which contains the mass of four mill ...
  • Jaws of Life: High-Power Scans Reveal Teeth, Food ...
    As tremendous ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs swam through Mesozoic seas, a smaller more common creature also was cruising the currents, playing an outsized role in marine ecosystems. [More]

RAWA News

  • Mine blast wounds 6 Afghan children
    Xinhua: Six children sustained injuries as a mine went off in eastern Kunar province 185 km east of capital Kabul on Monday, provincial police chief Khalilullah Ziae said Tuesday. “The tragic incident happened in Narang district on Monday when the innocent children were playing as a result six child ...
  • AFGHANISTAN: Kabul air pollution prompts advice on ...
    IRIN: Worsening air pollution in Kabul has forced the Afghanistan National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA) to advise people to use masks or other protective devices during the morning and evening rush hours. The UN World Health Organization (WHO) says air pollution causes about two million pr ...
  • Over 10,000 died in Afghan violence in 2010
    AFP: More than 10,000 people, about a fifth of them civilians, lost their lives in violence in Afghanistan last year, an AFP count based on official figures and an independent website tally showed Sunday. Afghanistan’s interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary revealed new figures for the number o ...
  • UN maps show security worsening in Afghanistan: re ...
    AFP: Confidential UN maps show a clear deterioration in security in parts of Afghanistan this year, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday, as its mission there acknowledged security in some parts had worsened. Two United Nations maps, one showing the situation at the start of this year’s fighting ...
  • Afghan campaign caused $100 million damage: inquir ...
    Reuters: Afghan and foreign forces have caused more than $100 million damage to fruit crops and homes during security operations in southern Kandahar province, a government delegation said on Tuesday. Violence is at its worst since U.S.-backed Afghan forces overthrew the Islamist government in 2001 ...

frogblog

  • Making origami whales to save the whales
    Yesterday I launched a nationwide sister cities whale tour in Wellington for ordinary people to do something about whaling, rather than leaving it up to the activists and international lawyers. We set up a stall where passers-by could sign a letter to Wellington’s sister city, Sakai ...
  • MPs combine across party lines for cycling safety
    As the Green Party’s spokesperson on Cycling I have had the opportunity to carry forward my background in advocacy for cycling into new areas. For example, our work as a co-sponsor with John Key (he brings the dollars, we bring the cycling expertise) has seen Nga Haerenga (the NZ Cy ...
  • The last line of defence to save the Wairau River ...
    Meet Joan and John McLauchlan. They are farmers from the Wairau Valley near Blenheim and they are the last line of defence against TrustPower’s attempts to destroy the Wairau River. I launched my 2011 summer Rivers Tour on the Wairau River on Monday with 25 of us paddling down ...
  • General debate, January 11, 2011
  • Racist TVNZ scheduling makes a very angry frog
    I’m meant to be on holiday. But something happened today which made me really angry, so I thought I would post about it. A highlight of my summer holiday is watching the tennis at the ASB stadium in Auckland. I don’t personally attend the stadium (the majority of the punters the ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • America's Next Failure: the Police State
    Every police force in the nation has cold (unsolved) cases. The War on Drugs has been ineffective for more than forty years. No one knows where a vast number of illegal immigrants even are. The CIA has been unable to locate Osama bin Laden after more than ten years of searching. Your local police ca ...
  • Western Civilization and Classical Economics: The ...
    When a civilization abandons its morality, no rationalization can be devised to justify its continued existence. It is likely that many reasons can be given for this abandonment in the Western world, although I am convinced that one predominatesthe expansion of law. Law once governed various kin ...
  • The Mythical United States of America: Rushing int ...
    The mythical United States of America so highly lauded exists nowhere. It is a Shangri-la. The Preamble of the Constitution makes perfectly clear what kind of nation the United States was meant to be. What exists today fulfills none of those goals. Some have argued that the nation was a fraud fr ...
  • As Western Civilization Lies Dying
    The Western commercial system exists to extract more from consumers than it supplies in products and services. Its goal is profit and has never been the improvement of the human condition but to exploit it. When governments institutionalize this system, they place their nations on suicidal paths, be ...
  • Is Perfect Research Possible
    Some claim that there is no hope of doing perfect research. So, is there hope of doing perfect research? Of course there issometimes! It all depends on the whetherwhether the subject is limited and whether the researcher can write and is intelligent enough to adequately evaluate the evidence. Un ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Housekeeping Note
    It's obvious that the blogosphere is going to be all Giffords all the time for a while, and�I just don't have a lot more to say about this. Besides, my arm is so sore it feels like it's about to fall off. I'm going to go take a handful of Tylenol and stay away from the computer for the rest of the d ...
  • Quote of the Day: No, Both Sides Aren't Equally Gu ...
    From George Packer, who notes (correctly) that he called out the left for its ugly rhetoric in the runup to the Iraq War, on where today's ugly rhetoric mostly comes from: In fact, there is no balance—none whatsoever. Only one side has made the rhetoric of armed revolt against an oppressive tyranny ...
  • Turning It Down a Notch
    For the next few days I guess we're going to be talking about political rhetoric and how toxic it's become. And it has! But the problem is still with specifics. Here's First Read, for example: What was particularly striking to us is how activists, especially on the right, were playing the victim wh ...
  • Unlimited Bonuses for British Banks
    News from across the pond: Britain's banks were given the go-ahead tonight to pay unlimited bonuses, drawing to a close a two-year political battle to rein in the City....Ministers are instead hoping for a face-saving deal in which the banks agree to lending targets and improve the way they discl ...
  • The War Against Public Sector Unions
    James Surowiecki writes about the growing resentment toward public sector unions: There are a couple of reasons for this. In the past, a sizable percentage of American workers belonged to unions, or had family members who did. Then, too, even people who didn’t belong to unions often reaped some b ...

Insanity Report

  • Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Handle the Arizona ...
    Short, simple and to the point. Didn’t require 24 hours of constant speculation and blame laying. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c The Daily Show on Facebook The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Video Archive Share with your friends:
  • IC 221: TMZ’in the News
    Topics for the show: Disrespectful temperatures Clarification on Princessboy Just mind your fucking business The attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Playing politics instead of reflecting It’s not Palin’s fault Share with your friends:
  • The Lord May Have Heard My Prayers
    A source close to the three-term congresswoman said Bachmann will travel to Iowa this month for multiple meetings to seek advice from political forces there and party elders close to the caucus process before coming to a final decision regarding a potential presidential run. Bachmann, a native of Wa ...
  • IC 220: Boys in Dresses
    Topics for the show: The issue of “Princess boy” Where do you draw the line between self expression and being a parent? Is being gay a choice or are you born that way…or even better…does it even matter? Are gays destroying the black community? Would a woman President mean less wars? Cheating makes y ...
  • How NOT to Get Your Boyfriend to Propose to You
    A woman from Chicago’s Northwest Side wanted to start the New Year with a marriage proposal, with help from police. As WBBM’s Julie Mann reports, the woman is now facing criminal charges. Ana Perez, 40, called 911 around 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, claiming her boyfriend was attacking her. When police arri ...

Simple Climate

  • Greenhouse gases break temperature-rainfall link
    While warmer air can take up more water than colder air, the extra heat trapped in the lower atmosphere by gases like CO2 decreases how much of this is released as precipitation, explains Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research's Katja Frieler.
  • Dust research polishes climate models
    The smallest, cooling, particles are a lower proportion of all atmospheric dust than climate models assume, says the US National Center for Atmospheric Research's Jasper Kok, likely meaning there are more particles than previously thought overall and helping improve accuracy of climate predictions i ...
  • Climate change can be understood and tackled
    In the ultimate simple climate change explanation, leading climate analyst Kevin Trenberth notes carbon dioxide has gone up over 35% since pre-industrial times, with over half of that since 1970 - but other researchers I've spoken to this year give cause for hope that this can be slowed.
  • Effluent entering streams also soils the atmospher ...
    People are causing chemicals containing nitrogen to enter rivers and streams where, besides having other effects, they're turned into the especially potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide.
  • A picture of climate change is worth 1,000 words
    Global warming illustrated: one simple diagram of the basic science that I made, along with a host of images from scientific institutions allow me to shut up for once, and let the pictures talk for themselves.

e!Science News

  • Link between fracture prevention and treatment adh ...
    Newly released findings of a multinational survey conducted on behalf of the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) show clear disparities between patients' and doctors' perceptions of osteoporosis and its management. read more
  • Virus killer gets supercharged
    A simple technique to make a common virus-killing material significantly more effective is a breakthrough from the Rice University labs of Andrew Barron and Qilin Li. read more
  • Biomedical breakthrough: Blood vessels for lab-gro ...
    Researchers from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) have broken one of the major roadblocks on the path to growing transplantable tissue in the lab: They've found a way to grow the blood vessels and capillaries needed to keep tissues alive. read more
  • New UCLA-designed microscope records firing of tho ...
    Some disorders of the brain are obvious — the massive death of brain cells after a stroke, the explosion in the growth of cells that marks a tumor. Other disorders, such as autism, schizophrenia and mental retardation show no physical signs of damage and are believed to be caused by problems in how ...
  • Hubble zooms in on a space oddity
    A strange, glowing green cloud of gas that has mystified astronomers since its discovery in 2007 has been studied by Hubble. The cloud of gas is lit up by the bright light of a nearby quasar, and shows signs of ongoing star formation. read more

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • Government intervention on fossil fuel pollution
    Guest post by DV82XL. He is a Canadian chemist and materials scientist (and regular BNC commenter). An earlier relevant post by this author can be read here: An informed public is key to acceptance of nuclear energy. I have been watching with some amusement the debate here at BNC surrounding the ide ...
  • BNC as a resource – call for help
    The Brave New Climate blog started out in Aug 2008 as a modest affair. But over the course of 333 posts (and counting), it has grown into quite a resource, covering a wide variety of topics on sustainable energy and climate change. It is about to launch into its 4th year on the circuit! The blog [.. ...
  • No (statistical) warming since 1995? Wrong
    Yes, I’m still on vacation. But I couldn’t resist a quick response to this comment (and the subsequent debate): BBC: Do you agree that from 1995 to the present there has been no statistically-significant global warming Phil Jones: Yes, but only just. Here is the global temperature data from 1995 to ...
  • Open Thread 8 – BNC Christmas and New Year 2 ...
    So, the year that was — 2010 — comes to a close, with 115 more BraveNewClimate blog posts in the archives, 13,500 more comments and 430,000 extra hits. Thanks to all the many BNC guest posters (Gene Preston, Geoff Russell, Peter Lang, John Morgan, DV82XL, Marion Brook, Tony Kevin, John Rolls, Paul ...
  • Energy and climate books I read in 2010
    Here is a selection of sustainable energy and climate change books I read in 2010. I’ve provided a few sentence summary of each book (from my perspective) and a Rating out of 5. Some books have been reviewed in more detail on BNC already — enter from the title of the book in this website’s search bo ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Ray McGovern: Why Obama Should Read Wikileaks on A ...
    Ray McGovern: Why Obama Should Read Wikileaks on Afghanistan By RAY McGOVERN Perhaps President Barack Obama should give himself a waiver on the ban prohibiting U.S. government employees from downloading classified cables released by WikiLeaks, so he can get a better grasp on the futility of his Afg ...
  • We should focus on WikiLeaks, not Assange | Social ...
    We should focus on WikiLeaks, not Assange | SocialistWorker.org: "UPON LISTENING to Democracy Now's long overdue debate between two feminists about the sexual assault allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange recently, I was struck by how unsatisfying the debate was. I have been one of th ...
  • Brother Jesse Blog: If Tucson shooter were Muslim, ...
    Brother Jesse Blog: If Tucson shooter were Muslim, would the discussion be different?: "Over the last few years alone, since the election of President Obama, we have witnessed a heightened culture of hate, violence, bigotry, death threats, religious intolerance, vicious political foolery, racial ten ...
  • Guest Editorial: AAP: Scott Sisters, NAACP, Black ...
    �Read the rest of this excellent editorial @ African American Pundit: THE SCOTT SISTERS WHERE RELEASED AND NO ONE SHOULD HAVE A DOUBT THAT THE VICTORY WAS INSPIRED BY BLACK BLOGGERS AND BLOGTALK RADIO HOST. BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY IT WAS INSPIRED BY THE SCOTT SISTERS MOTHER, EVELYN ROSCOE, WHO FO ...
  • John Pilger’s The War You Don’t See: An indictment ...
    John Pilger’s The War You Don’t See: An indictment of news reporting as state propaganda :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1] Pilger questions BBC Head of Newsgathering Fran Unsworth and Editor-in-Chief of ITV News David Mannion about their ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Today
    Today the Tea Party chickens have come home to roost.
  • How To Interrupt Town Hall Meetings 101
    So when the Republican operatives were handing out instructions on how to disrupt town halls, was shooting the congressperson on the list?
  • “Second Amendment Remedies”
    So what did you expect Angle? Palin? Beck? Limbaugh? Savage? Other right wing psychopaths inciting violence?
  • Stupid Tea Baggers
    The Tea Baggers are so stupid that they don’t understand that if America fails, they will go down with the ship too. I mean there’s stupid, and then there’s stupid.
  • Jan Brewer “Guilty” One Count of Murde ...
    The first person in Arizona had now died from lack of “funding” for their organ transplant. We have 2o0 million to give Exxon for a rebate, after they netted 40 billion in profit, but we can’t pay for an organ transplant. When it comes to how Republican’s brains work, something is just wrong.

Appalachia Rising

  • Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
    Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a found ...
  • Press Conference to be Held on June 15
    Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304-237-2688 o ...
  • Press Inquiries
    All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conference H ...
  • New Flier for Appalachia Rising
  • Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachian ...
    Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind coalfi ...

Amped Status

  • AmpedStatus.com Hit By Mass DoS Attacks
    As you may have noticed, for most of the day yesterday AmpedStatus.com was down. Shortly after posting our new report we were hit with a heavy barrage of DoS attacks...
  • Obama Renews Commitment to Complete Destruction of ...
    Obama has just doubled down on the side of the financial terrorists. Meet Bill Daley and Gene Sperling - another JP Morgan-Goldman Sachs attack. Let's dig deep into their past and reveal everything that you need to know.
  • I Will Not Participate In the Journalism of Appeas ...
    Don’t you get it? This is a war! This is a mass slaughter carried out by economic policy. This is the elimination of the existence of a middle class. These are financial terrorists committing crimes against humanity. Our country is under attack!
  • The Wall Street Pentagon Papers: Biggest Scam In W ...
    The Global Banking Cartel has now been so blatantly exposed, you cannot possibly get away with pretending that we live in a nation of law based on the Constitution. The jig is up.
  • EXCLUSIVE WORLD PREMIERE ~ Ben Bernanke: Public En ...
    In this new music video, for the song "Mr. Big Shot" by Pilot Rai, we feature leading members of the Global Banking Cartel: Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner and Jamie Dimon. We also feature the cartel’s puppet president, Barack Obama.

+972

  • Im Tirtzu and the eternal fire of damnation
    Im Tirtzu’s acceptance of funds from Pastor John Hagee is just one example of the questionable and dangerous alliance Israel has made with Christians who are far from being “friends of Israel.” While Im Tirtzu’s Ronen Shoval continues to rant self righteously about how “leftwing” organizations need ...
  • Amnesty International labels Abdallah Abu Rahmah a ...
    Hours after Abdallah Abu Rahmah’s sentence was extended by an Israeli military court, Amnesty International has labeled the Bil’in organizer a prisoner of conscience. The Amnesty press release stated that, “Amnesty International believes Abdallah Abu Rahma to be a prisoner of conscience, jailed sole ...
  • The strange case of the reporter who hurt a colone ...
    A reporter for one of Israel’s largest news sites is being interrogated under caution – for reporting news unpleasant to a certain colonel’s ears. In the early summer, Walla!News reporter Josh Breiner published an ordinary enough report: West Bank settlers upset with the local military commander, ...
  • Why the destruction of the Shepherd Hotel could be ...
    The Israeli government allowed Jewish settlers to take over an abandoned hotel in the heart of Arab East Jerusalem in order to build a Jewish only settlement on Sunday. From Washington to Brussels, diplomatic representatives have raised concern and dismay about the unilateral Israeli decision. The i ...
  • The myth of good Israel vs. bad Israel (II)
    Where was “the peace camp” when the Knesset decided to probe human rights NGOs? As the Knesset is passing one undemocratic law after the other, many people ask themselves where is the famous Israeli Left. I have long argued that supporting the two-states solution (as many Israelis say they do) doesn ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

  • CNBC on The Ibanez Fraudclosure Fallout- The &#822 ...
    Watch this CNBC Video Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
  • Foreclosed Properties Depress Housing Sales Value
    Like other examples of mass hysteria or misinformation, it is a widely accepted mantra that we’ve got to churn through all these foreclosures to get our economy moving again. THIS IS FLAT OUT WRONG. We need to fix the fundamental flaws in our economy which will allow people to go back to work so the ...
  • Why Do Banks And Their Attorneys Just Get A Do Ove ...
    It’s a disgusting commentary really, but there seems to be no penalty, none whatsoever for an entire industry and complete systems that went purposefully awry.  The failure to clearly and honestly call this what it is and to provide any corrective action at all is one of the greatest failings in ou ...
  • Secretary Geitner Begs Congress To Raise Debt Ceil ...
    Just in case your own personal financial trouble had you forgetting about the much larger troubles that our country suffers from…..what a mess we’re in…. The Honorable Harry Reid Majority Leader United States Senate Washington, DC  20510 Dear Mr. Leader: I am writing in response to your request for ...
  • MIAMI HERALD HAMMERS THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS IN FL ...
    Hat tip to 4ClosureFraud for picking up on the media catching the chaos that permeates the entire state… In the years since South Floridaâs housing market began its historic crash, a debilitating ripple effect has spread to many of the regionâs institutions, sparking a number of satellite problems, ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • The Second Scramble
    Today we take a team of 12 to south Sudan to oversee our projects there and to observe the referendum that in all likelihood will see the south secede from the north, forming the world’s newest nation. Canadians – governments, NGOs, and a large number of citizens – have invested heavily in the regio ...
  • 2010 – The Year of Living Dangerously
    In a year-end statement, Stephen Harper offered that 2010 was the year that Canada “shined” on the world’s stage. That was a bit of a stretch, but a quick scan of similar statements by other world leaders boasted much the same fare. Regardless of the progress, or lack of it, in specific nations, col ...
  • Annus Horribilus
    1992 wasn’t the best year for Queen Elizabeth II. For months she had watched her family deteriorate and then suffered dislocation when Windsor Castle caught fire. In her year-end speech she could only conclude: “1992 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of ...
  • A Bridge Too Far
    A very subtle line in journalism was crossed in the past few weeks that needs to experience some push back. Journalist Andrew Cohen and pundit Norman Spector both provided observations that Stephen Harper and his wife Laureen are experiencing anything but marital bliss. In doing so, they journeyed a ...
  • Your Turn As Santa
    What do you do when Santa turns into Scrooge? In what is surely the tip of the iceberg, the federal government quietly cut $53 million from settlement agencies in the GTA. Speaking with a number of agencies in Toronto today gave the unmistakable impression that a government bent on providing corpora ...

Vaccine Awakening

  • Counting Blessings, Remembering the Children
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Every Christmas and New Year, when I give thanks for the people who have blessed my life, I remember the mothers and fathers of severely vaccine injured children, who have taught me the most about love and courage. I know that my son, Chris, who developed brain inflammation ...
  • Thousands Of Americans Register for NVIC's New Adv ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Thousands of Americans living in all 50 states took action and registered for the new NVIC Advocacy Portal at www.NVICadvocacy.org during Vaccine Awareness Week (Nov. 1-6, 2010) co-sponsored by the National Vaccine Information C ...
  • Vaccine Science: A Search for Truth
    by Barbara Loe Fisher February 2009 turned out to be a month when vaccine science was put on trial in the U.S. Court of Claims in Washington, D.C., in mainstream media and on the internet, in the British Medical Journal and in vaccine safety research initiatives by the U.S. Department of Health and ...
  • Talking Vaccine Science with Government: Why Do It ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher After the historic election in November that saw Barack Obama elected President, I wondered what he and his Administration would do about addressing the question that is on the minds of many parents: Why are so many vaccinated children today chronically ill, suffering with lea ...
  • Vaccine Bullies & Fighting Back
    By Barbara Loe Fisher During the past decade, families in the United Kingdom, Canada and America have witnessed the demonization of brave doctors and parents of vaccine injured children. It has been both sickening and frightening to watch physicians and some journalists engage in a relentless perse ...

2020 Science

  • Lost in the Maize
    It’s the beginning of a new year, and I’m going through the usual soul-searching exercise of thinking about what is working and what isn’t with the blog. Over on the 2020 Science Facebook page (remember that?) I’ve asked for readers’ thoughts on what they’ve enjoyed, on 2020 Science, what could be b ...
  • US National Nanotechnology Initiative draft EHS St ...
    Update 1/6/11: The comment period has been extended to January 21 There are only two days left to comment on the current draft US National Nanotechnology Initiative Environmental, Health and Safety strategy (the comment period closes January 6) – so time to read the draft, log in to the portal and a ...
  • Most-read 2020 Science blogs of 2010
    Which were the most popular 2020 Science blogs of 2010?  In reverse order, based on page views, here are the ten most-read posts: 10.  Just how risky can nanoparticles in sunscreens be? Friends of the Earth respond A guest blog from Georgia Miller and Ian Illuminato at Friends of the Earth, respondi ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    A weekly reflection on life in academia I wasn’t intending to post a Lost in the Maize blog today, having been struggling to get back from a fog-bound UK to the US for the past 48 hours.  But reading Iain M. Banks’ Surface Detail on the flight back, I came across this rather delicious critique [...] ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    My son Alex’s school puts on a highly prestigious musical each year. Competition for the lead roles is tough. Closed-door auditions are held to ensure the most talented kids get the leading roles â reward-through-merit in action you might say. Apart from the fact that some parents involved in the pr ...

Reader Supported News

  • On Eve of Arizona Funerals, Lawmakers Act
    Intro: "Arizona legislators quickly approved emergency legislation Tuesday to head off picketing by a Topeka, Kansas, church near the funeral service for a 9-year-old girl who was killed during Saturday's shooting in Tucson. Unanimous votes by the House and Senate cleared the way for the bill to go ...
  • Tom DeLay Is Finally Rewarded for His Years of Pub ...
    Intro: "No one did more to corrupt the public life of the country during the Bush-Cheney era than the cruelest and most crooked of their henchmen, Thomas Dale 'Tom' DeLay, the Republican majority leader turned the US House of Representatives into a cesspool of pay-to-play politics and the elections ...
  • Colorado Man Arrested for Threats to Senator's Sta ...
    Intro: "Federal prosecutors have charged a Colorado man with threatening gun violence and arson against staffers of US Senator Michael Bennet in the days before an unrelated shooting rampage that left an Arizona congresswoman gravely wounded." Sen. Michael Bennet greets a supporter during an elec ...
  • Kennedy Points Finger at Sarah Palin
    Brett Coughlin writes: "Patrick Kennedy, who lost two uncles to assassins' bullets, says there's an obvious connection between the violent rhetoric of today's politics and the massacre in Tucson." Former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin speaks during the ...
  • Faster, Deadlier Military Drones Getting Flight Te ...
    W.J. Hennigan reports: "An experimental spy plane with a wingspan almost the size of a Boeing 747's took to the skies over the Mojave Desert last week in a secret test flight that may herald a new era in modern warfare with robotic planes flying higher, faster and with more firepower." The AeroVi ...

War Resisters League

  • The other “Afghanistan Report”
    Whose stories are we telling about the war in Afghanistan? On the day following the White House report on the war in Afghanistan that names the war as a qualified success and calls for the U.S. to “stay the course,” we must lift up the alternative stories and reports of this near-decade of occupatio ...
  • Join the Online Demonstration for Peace in Korea - ...
    President Obama is sending the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington (carrying 75 warplanes and a crew of over 6000) and other warships for additional war-games with the South Korean military beginning Sunday, November 28.� This only escalates the already tense situation on the Kore ...
  • IVAW Women’s Retreat this weekend!
    Dear Supporters, My name is Joyce Wagner. I am a Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq in 2004 and 2005, and I am a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. This Labor Day, IVAW women will hold our first ever retreat in support of women veterans. Your donation today will help us make [...]
  • Protest nuclear warhead test launch tomorrow!
    Protest September 14, 11:55 pm (midnight) missile launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base: NOTE 09/14/10: THIS LAUNCH AND PROTEST HAVE BEEN CANCELED– More info to come! Join the protest of the test launch of a Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) thermo-nuclear warhead delivery system ...
  • International Days of Action in Solidarity with Br ...
    Support Bradley Manning! Oakland, California, USA Thursday, September 16th, 7-9pm Humanist Hall, 390 27th Street, Oakland CA (Between Telegraph and Broadway) Speakers: DANIEL ELLSBERG, Pentagon Papers whistle-blower COL. ANN WRIGHT (ret.), former US diplomat RAY MCGOVERN, former CIA analyst AIMEE AL ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Are you learning your food habits at home? Doesn’ ...
    When I was a teacher, a common gripe among the staff was that the parent’s “weren’t doing their job” at home and how were “we,” the teachers supposed to make up for students whose parents didn’t read to them or encourage them to do their homework. This ongoing blame game ranged from discussions of r ...
  • New FDA Numbers Reveal Food Animals Consume Lion’s ...
    Antibiotics, one of world’s greatest medical discoveries, are slowly losing their effectiveness in fighting bacterial infections and the massive use of the drugs in food animals may be the biggest culprit. The growing threat of antibiotic resistance is largely due to the misuse and overuse of antibi ...
  • Yakima Valley Releases Draft Air Quality Policy fo ...
    Unlike agricultural water discharges which are regulated for large farms defined as CAFO by the EPA and the Clean Water Act, most agricultural air emissions are not regulated. Water discharges and air emissions that are related to industrial scale agricultural operations in rural areas are big conce ...
  • No title
    By Julia DeBruicker Valliant On the front porch, boots stamp away snow, and then the farmer steps inside.  The glasses fog up.  Off comes the jacket, the cap, and out goes the hand in greeting.  After a season spent grazing cows and sheep and pasturing pigs, hens and turkeys, meat producers from ar ...
  • Happy Holidays from the Johns Hopkins Center for a ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

  • Crazy Like a Fox
    In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
  • Addicted to Contractors
    The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.
  • How to Whip the Afghan Army Into Shape
    Much of President Barack Obama's strategy rests on the creation of a new, more competent Afghan military. Here's what he'll need to know to get the job done.
  • Obama's Indecent Interval
    Despite the U.S. president's pleas to the contrary, the war in Afghanistan looks more like Vietnam than ever.
  • Divide and Conquer
    At an upcoming conference in London, the Afghan government will unveil its plan to bring the Taliban rank and file back into the political fold -- and plead for international assistance for its new initiative. 

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Militarization Of Energy Policy: U.S. Africa Comma ...
    Stop NATO January 8, 2011 Militarization Of Energy Policy: U.S. Africa Command And Gulf Of Guinea Rick Rozoff At the beginning of the century, while the United States was still embroiled in military interventions in the Balkans and had launched what would become the longest war in its history in Afg ...
  • U.S. Employs Afghan War To Build Global NATO
    Stop NATO January 6, 2011 U.S. Employs Afghan War To Build Global NATO Rick Rozoff In an article entitled “How Afghanistan Became a War for NATO,” American journalist Gareth Porter argued that, contrary to the official position that an estimated 52,000 non-American troops from the North Atlantic Tre ...
  • Pentagon And NATO Apply Afghanistan-Pakistan War M ...
    Stop NATO January 2, 2011 Pentagon And NATO Apply Afghanistan-Pakistan War Model To Africa Rick Rozoff The New Year began with three North Atlantic Treaty Organization soldiers killed in Afghanistan and 20 people, all portrayed as militants, killed in four American missile strikes in northwest Pakis ...
  • New Year To Mark Intensification Of West’s W ...
    Stop NATO December 31, 2010 New Year To Mark Intensification Of West’s War In Afghanistan And Pakistan Rick Rozoff No stranger to armed conflicts over the past 70 years, the United States has completed its first decade of continuous warfare: 2001-2010. On January 1 the U.S. and its allies in the Nor ...
  • Washington Uses Arms Sales To Achieve Global Supre ...
    Stop NATO December 30, 2010 Washington Uses Arms Sales To Achieve Global Supremacy Rick Rozoff In its Yearbook 2010, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) documents that the United States accounts for 43 percent of world military spending and 30 percent of global arms exports, ...

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Intel Hub

  • Piers Corbyn: The Jet & Gulf Stream dynamics
    Piers Corbyn of http://www.weatheraction.com discusses the significance and interrelationship between the Gulf and Jet Streams. Please note for the eagle eyed, although the Gulf Stream seems bolder in 2010 – it also seems to me – to be further south – anyway these images were added without Piers’ sa ...
  • Food Prices Rise Higher Than Ever As Globalists Pr ...
    The Intel Hub We have worked extensively to document rising food prices and possible coming food shortages. Now the Food and Agriculture Organization of 55 food commodities has recorded that global food prices hit an all time record in December. Natural News Figures recently released by the Food and ...
  • Friends, Critics Dispute Arizona Sheriff’s R ...
    Fox News By Jana Winter Just hours after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, an Arizona Democrat, was shot in the head by a crazed gunman, Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik — addressing the media for the first time — made headlines for saying that “vitriolic political rhetoric” heard on the radio and TV c ...
  • More Than 100 Dead Birds Found Off Calif. Highway
    Associated Press GEYSERVILLE, Calif. – California wildlife officials are trying to figure out what caused the death of more than 100 birds found clustered together just off Highway 101. The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports that California Highway Patrol officers found the dead birds near the roadwa ...
  • Gun Grabbing Congress Critters Come Out of Woodwor ...
    Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com The shooting of Rep. Giffords and others by a mentally deranged man in Arizona has brought anti-Second Amendment ghouls out of the shadows. Dedicated gun-grabber Sen. Frank Lautenberg, a New Jersey Democrat, is renewing his effort to chisel away at the Constitution and the Bi ...

FRS

  • More deaths in Tunisia violence
    January 10, 2011 Tunisia’s government says 14 civilians have been killed in clashes with police in the past 48 hours. Although media is tightly controlled in Tunisia, Al Jazeera has received reports that several Tunisian political parties have petitioned the government demanded greater political fre ...
  • Nepal’s former rebels face uncertain future ...
    By Pratibha Tuladhar Jan 10, 2011, 3:16 GMT Chitwan, Nepal – It’s just another day of waiting at the Shaktikhor cantonment for former fighters of Nepal’s Maoist rebel army, some 200 kilometres from the capital Kathmandu. Around 4,000 men and women while away the time at the largest of Nepal’s seven ...
  • Protests mark 10th year of Guantanamo camps
    January 12, 2011 McClatchy Newspapers MIAMI â Protesters donned orange jumpsuits from the gates of the Southern Command to London’s Trafalgar Square on Tuesday as activists marked the start of the 10th year of Guantanamo’s prison camps with small, scattered demonstrations. Morning rush-hour motorist ...
  • British Jews of conscience campaign against the Is ...
    [At the time of the Quincentennial (1992) activists in the Americas exposed the Holocaust, from Columbus' time,  of Indigenous People.  The descendants of Africans who had been enslaved raised the history of the Black Holocaust.  These became part of the struggle for the true history to be reflected ...
  • The EU and NATO’s Role in the US War on Afgh ...
    How Afghanistan Became a War for NATO January 9, 2011 By Gareth Porter The official line of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the NATO command in Afghanistan, is that the war against Afghan insurgents is vital to the security of all the countries providing troops there. In fact, ho ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • On the verge of Cast Lead II, a look back
    Today our team in Gaza met the Awaja family from Thabat.  There were nine members of this family, seven children aged 1 to 12 years old, but one son was murdered during Operation Cast Lead (2008-2009), so seven children is now six.  Today we visited a few days in the life of this family, courtesy [. ...
  • Egyptian Blockade of Gaza – Blocking Ramsey ...
    Egyptian Blockade of Gaza – Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General Of the US but long time enemy of US imperialism is being blocked by Egypt (under US orders) into entering Gaza at this moment. All required protocols were followed on the Egyptian side, but once again Egypt plays its role in collabora ...
  • Egypt Blocking Yet Another Humanitarian Aid Convoy ...
    Right now the Asian Convoy to Gaza is having the same problems with the Egyptian government that virtually every convoy has, including the Road to Hope Convoy (R2H). The corruption of the Egyptian regime and the active role it plays in blockading Gaza, partial though it may be, shames all Arabs, sha ...
  • TJP Liberty Report Gaza – 2nd Anniversary Ca ...
  • TJP Liberty Report Gaza – Collecting Rocks & ...
    Since March 2010 Israel has shot 97 Palestinians who were collecting rocks or tending to their crops. In the last three weeks 22 Palestinians have been shot. What makes this all the more disgusting is that these people are doing this work simply to survive. In the case of collecting rocks they are d ...

StillSmallVoice

  • Saw this on vacation, thought it was cool
    Coptic Christians in Egypt have become the target of violence, and to counter that, Muslims in their country accompanied them to church last week, and acted as human shields. AP photo
  • Which is more violent, the Bible or the Qur'an?
    Al Jazeera had a report late last month. Did you see it?
  • Cliff sent this, just before I went on vacation.
    So now I'm sharing: If you had all the money in the world, how would you spend it to create the most good? My first answer was "scholarships." Education makes all the difference. Then I went long, and decided I'd buy up all the other money, burn it, and start all over again with an economic syste ...
  • Food and Faith II is coming
    Interreligious Eco-Justice Network invites you to Food and Faith II, a half-day conference on how faith communities, food producers and activists can work together to help get access to more local, safe and nourishing food. Food and Faith II will be from 4 to 8 p.m. on Monday at Unitarian Societ ...
  • When a family member is mentally ill
    The family of Jared Loughner, the accused Tucson shooter who killed six and injured 14, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, gave this statement to the press on Monday. NAMI-CT is offering a free 12-week course offering support and education to family members and friends of individuals with serious m ...

Associated Content

  • Westboro Baptist Church to Protest Funeral of Chil ...
    The ever-controversial Westboro Baptist Church has provoked an outcry with its announcement that its acolytes will picket the funeral of Christina Green. Christina was the 9-year-old girl who died in Saturday's Tucson, Ariz., shooting.Contributor: Jeanne Rose Published: Jan 11, 2011
  • Without Evidence of Influence, Palin Blamed for Sh ...
    The connection between former Gov. Sarah Palin and the tragic shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is tenuous.Contributor: Isabel Alvarez Published: Jan 11, 2011
  • Verizon's iPhone Announcement Makes Waves
    Cell phone provider Verizon announced today it will be distributing the ever-popular iPhone starting next month.Contributor: Heather Chadwick Published: Jan 11, 2011
  • Slashes and Tax Hikes Dominate Budget Proposals in ...
    Three of the more conspicuous states slashing their budgets and/or increasing taxes in recent budget proposals are California, Illinois and New York.Contributor: Ashley Mott Published: Jan 11, 2011
  • Can Britney Have a Hit One More Time, Baby?
    Britney Spears has been in the public eye for years - but lately it's been for her tabloid-worthy behavior. She's trying to come back with her new single "Hold It Against Me," but will it work?Contributor: Shayna Leah Published: Jan 11, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • Farewell, Tevatron: Fermilab's Particle Accelerato ...
    As the U.S.'s premier particle physics machine retires, the search for the Higgs falls to the Large Hadron Collider alone Tough budgetary times spare no one, not even the last best hope of American researchers discovering the “god particle” on their home soil. Rumblings and rumors surfaced early ye ...
  • Beams of Antimatter Blast Into Space From Earthly ...
    Thunderstorms produce beams of antimatter particles that rain into space, NASA scientists said this week, shedding more light on one of the weirdest Earth physics stories of recent memory. Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes, which are brief, powerful bursts produced inside thunderstorms, apparently pro ...
  • The Largest Molecule Ever Made Could Be Used to De ...
    Organic chemists in Switzerland have built a ginormous virus-sized macromolecule — it has 170,000 bond-forming chemical reactions — calling it a major step in the creation of molecular objects. The molecule, called PG5, is the biggest synthetic molecule with a stable, defined form. Similar struc ...
  • H1N1 Finding Could Lead to Universal Flu Vaccine
    It is said that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, and a group of researchers at Emory University and the University of Chicago are putting that mantra to the test in an effort to develop the “holy grail” of flu vaccines. The researchers have found that several patients that were infected du ...
  • Video: NASA Planet Hunters Announce Smallest Exopl ...
    More exoplanet discoveries are pending, as Kepler team approaches deadline to publish data A tiny world of molten rock, orbiting scorchingly close to its host star, is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system, NASA announced today. And it's likely only the first in a parade of p ...

Veterans Today

  • Bible-citing Fanatics Spew Venom; From the Mouth o ...
    What does the future hold for the U.S. and the world’s leading terrorist mob, Israel? Can libertarians and human rights activists make the U.S.-Israeli relationship a 2012 issue in the presidential campaign? Questions abound, but “God’s people” demonstate a clear fanatical commitment to violence t ...
  • KEN O’KEEFE ON PRESS TV’s NEWS ANALYSI ...
    Salem-News.com (TEHRAN / GAZA / LONDON / BEIRUT) – This edition of Press TVâs News Analysis will be looking at Israelâs latest violation in the occupied territories. Located near the al-Aqsa mosque in the center of Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem Al Quds laid the Shepherd Hotel, a herit ...
  • Wisconsin Photographer Chronicles Operation Desert ...
    New Exhibit Opening at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum (MADISON â Wisconsin Veterans Museum Press Release) – The Wisconsin Veterans Museum will open The Scorching Desert Sun: A Wisconsin Photographer Chronicles Operation Desert Storm exhibit on Friday, January 14, 2011.  The exhibit will remain on di ...
  • Walking the Talk: Creating a Culture of Flexibilit ...
    Workplace flexibility is not only critical to the lives of American families– it’s essential to the bottom line.   Research continually confirms that flexible work arrangements enhance productivity, increase retention and improve loyalty.   (For more on the business case for workplace flexibility, s ...
  • ISRAEL BEGRUDGES PALESTINE ITS FRAGILE TOURISM
    Stuart Littlewood / STAFF WRITER The Israel lobby here in the UK is creating a storm in an advertising teacup in a bid to throw a spanner in the works of Palestinian tourism. Dome of the Rock in the Old City of Jerusalem is not Israel The Jerusalem Post reports that Britain’s advertising watchdog ha ...

War is Business

  • Drone Contractors Taking Golf Trips On Taxpayer Di ...
    More contractor misconduct: Alleged child rapist avoids arrest for seven years by working as a military contractor in Iraq.Thanks for subscribing to War Is Business. Join the investigation and register for free, or
  • Video: 12,000 Arms Traders And A Handful Of Hipste ...
    It's a problem when the only people who keep tabs on the arms trade happen to be personally invested in the arms trade. So it's good that The Vice Guide To Everything is taking a critical look at the business of war.Thanks for subscribing to War Is Business. Join the investigation and register for f ...
  • Cashing In On Horrors Around The World
    Gabrielle Giffords' would-be assassin, Jared Loughner, used a Glock 19 handgun manufactured by Glock GmbH of Austria, with a high-capacity magazine. The company is owned by Gaston Glock.
  • UK Trade Minister Slapped Down For Misgivings Abou ...
    Arguably, the opium trafficker is morally superior to the state-supported arms trader.
  • Down Mexico Way
    If you’re too busy to read the Washington Post’s excellent series on how American gun dealers supply Mexican drug cartels, well, then shame on you. But do take the time to listen to this Fresh Air interview with one of the series’ authors.

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Coal takes the strain...again.
    On BBC Look North on friday I reported that during the recent intense cold weather, it's been our traditional coal and gas fired power stations that have been working flat out to keep our homes and businesses warm. And for the third winter running, the intense cold has gone hand in hand with per ...
  • December 2010 update: Second coldest since 1659
    Met Office provisional figures show that December 2010 with a mean CET temperature of -0.7C was the second coldest since records began in 1659, beaten only by December 1890 which had a mean of -0.8C. The diagram below shows how the month ranks with other cold Decembers, a truly memorable month cli ...
  • First global temperature data published: 1998 stil ...
    The first eagerly awaited data on 2010 global temperatures shows that although it was a very close run thing, 2010 has failed to beat 1998 which still holds the title of hottest year on record. The UAH global temperature satellite data, recorded and compiled by the University of Alabama in the USA ...
  • 2010: The year Britain shivered.
    According to the Met Office December 2010 will turn out to be the coldest December since 1890 based on the Central England Temperature (CET) dataset which started in 1659. They also say that December 2010 will also be the coldest December in the 100 year UK temperature series, covering England, Wa ...
  • Is the perceived rise in flooding real?
    It was claimed by experts following the floods of Autumn 2000 that such rainfall events were a taste of things to come, with increased autumn and winter rainfall a central projection of climate models. In fact, current forecasts for later this century suggest that parts of Yorkshire will see an inc ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Maybe LDCs Aren't Being Inundated w/ Capital (Yet)
    The general impression you get from certain developing countries is that easy money policies emanating from reserve currency-issuing ones like the unbelievably profligate United States are driving up their exchange rates and threatening to inflate various bubbles. It may be some surprise that, in 20 ...
  • Architect of the Euro, Padoa-Schioppa, Dies
    The eurozone's current woes notwithstanding, one of the indicators of the worth of an idea is the number of persons who are attributed to helping create a single currency. For its conceptual underpinnings, American Nobel laureate Robert Mundell is widely regarded as the (Intellectual) "Father of th ...
  • 'Key to Happiness is Work, Not Necessarily Growth'
    Well here's another report that should put growth fetishists on the defensive. Before you start talking about endogeneity biases and how employment is related to economic growth, do note that the assertion above ain't mine. Rather, it's that of the International Institute of Labor Studies in Geneva- ...
  • Will Japan Join the Trans-Pacific Partnership PTA?
    If there's a developed country suffering from typical developed country maladies, it's Japan. Massive public debt (largely counterbalanced by huge FX reserves some would argue); a shrinking and aging population; chronic deflation; and a moribund non-export oriented sectorare among its many woes. Mea ...
  • Markets Ponder China Bailing Out Europe (Again)
    OK, OK, so I am using the term "bailing out" in a very loose sense: For instance, China has not quite said that its continued patronage of US debt in the wake of the financial crisis is specifically to bail out America. Rather, it's always couched in diplomacy-speak such as preserving "stability" in ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Tipping Point: 25 Signs That The Coming Financial ...
    The financial collapse that so many of us have been anticipating is seemingly closer then ever.  Over the past several weeks, there have been a host of ominous signs for the U.S. economy.  Yields on U.S. Treasuries have moved up rapidly and Moody's is publicly warning that it may ha ...
  • 10 Things That Would Be Different If The Federal R ...
    The vast majority of Americans, including many of those who believe that they are "educated" about the Federal Reserve, do not really understand how the Federal Reserve really makes money for the international banking elite.  Many of those opposed to the Federal Reserve will point t ...
  • Need A Job? Too Bad! The Good Jobs Are Being Shipp ...
    I hope that you enjoy the cheap foreign-made plastic trinkets that you will be exchanging with your family and friends this holiday season, because they are literally destroying the U.S. economy.  As part of the new "one world economy" that both Democrats and Republicans insist is s ...
  • Two Americas: 12 Facts That Show That Those Who Ar ...
    Most Americans have a deep aversion to the phrase "redistribution of wealth", and rightly so.  On a fundamental level, it is just not right to take the money that one man has worked so hard to earn and "redistribute" it to someone else.  In the political realm, the phrase "a redistr ...
  • How Can We Have A Healthy Economy If Virtually Eve ...
    In the United States today, we are all being constantly bombarded by chemicals, poisons and toxins.  Virtually everything that we eat or drink makes us less healthy.  The vast majority of Americans gladly consume aspartame, fluoride, BPA, genetically-modified food, pesticides, high ...

Torture Abolition

  • The International Convention for the Protection of ...
    PRESS RELEASE For immediate release November 25, 2010 On November 23, 2010, the Republic of Iraq deposited the 20th instrument of ratification for the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances to the Secretary General of the United Nations. Iraq becomes ...
  • Breaking the Silence in Colombia: 50,000 Enforced ...
    The Latin America Working Group Education Fund (LAWG) and the U.S. Office on Colombia (USOC) released a new report today Breaking the Silence: In Search of Colombia ‘s Disappeared revealing official figures that more than 50,000 peo ...
  • AFAD Statement on Commemoration of the Universal D ...
      December 10, 2010   The Right to Defend Human Rights Everyone has rights. Defending one’s rights and that of others is in itself a right as well as an obligation. This is the life-preserving message of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which was adopted on 10 December 1948 by the United Na ...
  • IRCT on Human Rights Day: Rehabilitation for Tortu ...
    In focus 10-12-2010 Copenhagen, 10th December 2010 Today, on the UN’s annual Human Rights Day, the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) is calling on governments around the world to fulfill their legal responsibilities to provide appropriate rehabilitation services for tor ...
  • Thank You! Your Help Provides the Beacon of Hope f ...
    Make no mistake.  Your help and support make a huge difference in the lives of torture survivors.  Thanks to your generosity the story of Aida is repeated over and over at TASSC.  However, with the cuts in UN funding, TASSC will be strained to help people like Aida. I want to share a few statistics ...

BlogHer

  • iPhone comes to Verizon
    It's official. iPhone is coming to Verizon. It has an improved antenna and will act as a wifi hotspot with tethering for up to 5 devices, two features that separate it from the AT&T version. Many things are the same. It's $199 for the 16GB m ...
  • Treat that Bottle of Water Like a Mysterious Lover
    January is BlogHer's Month of Little Steps to Health & Fitness, and we want you to share your favorite easy health tip! Click here to see how to play along. And check out all the tips so far in the Month of Little Steps to Health & Fitness se ...
  • Day 5: Salad in a Jar's DIY Condensed Cream of Mus ...
    For Day 5 of BlogHer's Countdown to Soup Swap Series, Paula of Salad in a Jar shares her recipe for healthy, DIY condensed cream of mushroom soup you can make in 5 minutes. We're counting down to National Soup Swap Day with soup ideas every d ...
  • Educated (or Not) in America
    My husband forwarded me an email today from my daughter's talented & gifted teacher. She was responding to our offer to donate the video camera we thought we needed but never use to the class. We'd seen that the teacher was trying to raise ...
  • POLL: How Will This Weekend's Violence Impact You ...
    This past weekend both our country and community were rocked by the events in Tucson, AZ. Fast on the heels of learning that a gunman attempted to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and killed six other people, we learned that among t ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Court Rules in Favor of Free Speech for Natural Su ...
    The FDA has been controlling the market of natural supplementation and vitamins, suppressing free speech by not allowing suppliers and manufacturers to state the potential health benefits of a product on its label. A federal case brought ...
  • 6 Crimes Perpetrated by the Government in 2010- Cu ...
    by Joanna Cowles- Health Freedoms Citizens of this country who are educated about what keeps them healthy are at war.  For too long, profit driven mega-corporations have been poisoning the American public with chemical laden foods ...
  • Court Rules in Favor of Free Speech for Natural Su ...
    The FDA has been controlling the market of natural supplementation and vitamins, suppressing free speech by not allowing suppliers and manufacturers to state the potential health benefits of a product on its label. A federal case brought ...
  • Top 6 Thugs of the Medical World, How Big Pharma S ...
    On August 19, Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller issued a call for whistleblowers to step forward and help the state and federal government crack down on health care and pharmaceutical industries that defraud the government ...
  • EPA Allows Continued Sale and Use of Bee Killing P ...
    A study by the EPA on the pesticide clothianidin which has been used widely in the U.S. though it is banned in France, Itlay and Germany for its toxic effects shows what those countries ...

Live News Wire

  • Criminal Charges Filed Against Congresswoman’s Sho ...
    Newly-released court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a tha ...
  • “Unbelievable Tragedy:” Congresswoman Shot By Youn ...
    At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery store ...
  • Queensland Facing Flood Of “Biblical” Proportions
    The worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this week. ...
  • FBI Seizes Servers Potentially Connected With Pro- ...
    Special agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigations have seized a computer server from a Dallas, Texas-based company in an attempt to discover the identities of American individuals who may be responsible for a series of online attacks against Internet merchants.
  • American Students Drown In Tuition Debt
    The amount a student owes in education debt has surpassed the amount the average American owes in credit card debt. It doesn't help that American states have started slashing the amount of money it gives to schools in funding and students in aide. Tuition fees have increased at prestigious colleges ...

Coal Tattoo

  • Duke-Progress deal and the future of coal
    In this Feb. 1, 2006 file photo, Duke Energy Corporate Headquarters in a Charlotte, N.C., is shown. Duke Energy Corp. is buying Progress Energy Inc. for more than $13 billion in stock Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, in a deal that would create one of the nation’s largest utilities.(AP Photo/Nell Redmond, Fi ...
  • W.Va. coal slurry injection ban moves forward
    This just in from the fine folks over at The Associated Press: West Virginia’s Legislature could soon consider a permanent ban on new coal slurry injection wells that pump liquid coal waste underground. An interim subcommittee studying the issue endorsed the necessary legislative proposal Monday. Th ...
  • AP report on ‘Mountains made flat’
    In a Aug. 19, 2010 photo, a sports complex on land which was once the site of a coal mine operation can be seen from the Stone Crest Golf Course near Prestonsburg, Ky. A peak that stood for an eon is gone, replaced by a giant recreation area that was built after a coal company [...]
  • Federal No. 2 criminal probe continuing
    Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is shown during an August 2009 visit to Patriot Coal’s Federal No. 2 Mine, an operation that she and other regulators touted as a model mine that now faces a criminal investigation. It’s been a while since we had any new information on the federal criminal investigation ...
  • In landmark enforcement case, MSHA turns to former ...
    If you missed it last week, U.S. District Judge Amal Thapar handed the federal Labor Department and its Mine Safety and Health Administration a significant victory in his written ruling on Massey Energy’s motion to dismiss the landmark enforcement case against Massey’s Freedom Energy Mine No. 1 in ...

 

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NASCAR Champ To Keynote Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit
Wallace's Farmer
- Jan 12, 2011
- 9 hours ago
At the upcoming fifth Annual Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit, people who attend will hear from acclaimed NASCAR champion racecar driver Rusty Wallace. ...
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Invenergy and NYSERDA Enter Into Renewable Energy Credit Purchase Agreement
PR Newswire (press release)
- Jan 12, 2011
- 3 hours ago
12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Invenergy Wind LLC ("Invenergy") is announcing that it has entered into a ten-year agreement to sell Renewable Energy Credits ...
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2011 Florida Renewable Energy Tour Announces Boca Raton/West Palm Beach Tour Stop
RenewableEnergyWorld.com
- Jan 12, 2011
- 1 hour ago
West Palm Beach, FL The Florida Alliance for Renewable Energy (FARE) is excited to announce the next confirmed tour stop in its 2011 Renewable Energy Tour ...
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Bill Would Count Existing Dams as Renewable Energy
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- Jan 11, 2011
- 21 hours ago
AP By MATT VOLZ AP State lawmakers are considering a bill that would make it easier for utilities to meet the standard for renewable energy production, ...
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Rachel Bilson's New Obsession: Body Ecology Water!
Just Jared
- Jan 11, 2011
- 14 hours ago
The 29-year-old actress shared with InStyle that one of her new obsessions is Body Ecology Coconut Water. Rachel shared, “This is the only bottled coconut ...
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Abbie Lundberg Joins the Business Ecology Initiative as Executive Director
PR Newswire (press release)
- Jan 11, 2011
- Jan 11, 2011
For more information on the BEI visit http://www.business-ecology.org. As executive director, Ms. Lundberg will direct activities and promote adoption of ...
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Washington State Dept. of Ecology Makes Water Use Permitting Air Tight With ...
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- Jan 11, 2011
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Washington State's Department of Ecology Water Resources Program is responsible for allocating all of the state's publicly controlled surface and ground ...
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Bellingham asks Ecology to block new wells in Lake Whatcom watershed Move ...
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- Jan 10, 2011
- Jan 10, 2011
BELLINGHAM - Mayor Dan Pike says the city has asked the Washington Department of Ecology to block drilling of new wells in the Lake Whatcom watershed until ...
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City to Test Water for "Brockovich" Chemical
NBC Chicago
- Jan 12, 2011
- 36 minutes ago
By HANNAH CHANPONG AP City officials announced Tuesday their plans to test Chicago water for hexavalent chromium, the cancer-causing metal that recent ...
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ITT Board Approves Spinoff of Water, Defense Units
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- Jan 12, 2011
- 2 hours ago
By Will Daley - Wed Jan 12 14:50:37 GMT 2011 ITT Corp. surged after deciding to divide itself into three businesses, spinning off the water and defense ...
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Celtics Must Continue to Tread Water As Long as Kevin Garnett is Absent
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- Jan 12, 2011
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Now they're water-treaders. If Garnett returns Wednesday against the Kings, the team will surely get a lift. But if KG doesn't get back, the C's will have ...
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Dallas Water Utilities to partner with hotels on saving water
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- Jan 12, 2011
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And at noon, the utility is scheduled to announce a major new initiative aimed at saving water. According to a release, Dallas Water will team up with ...
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