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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 2

Blacklisted News

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

  • Another US Terror Attack On Pakistan
    At least three militants have been killed in a US drone strike in north-west Pakistan, say local officials. Four missiles struck a compound in Haiderkhel village, 5km (3 miles) east of Mir Ali town in North Waziristan district on the Afghan border. More than 100 raids were reported in the region las ...
  • Palestinian Return Centre vows to carry on despite ...
    rr r r rr r rr r rr r rr r rr rrr rThe Palestinian Return Centre, a London-based advocacy organization, has become the latest target of defamation and attempted sabotage in Israel’s ongoing campaign against groups and individuals active in promoting the issue of Palestine and Palestinian human right ...
  • America and the rise of middle powers
    Summary: Stephen Kinzer Turkey has been urging the US to change its approach to Iran by abandoning its policy of threats and sanctions. It suggests an approach based on rational self-interest rather than emotion: offer unconditional talks, not limited to the nuclear issue but aimed at a “grand barg ...
  • Iran vows legal bid on Israeli terror
    Summary: MehmanparastIran says it will exploit all its resources to condemn Israel and bring the regime to justice over its terror efforts against Iranian nuclear scientists. source: Press TVread more
  • Clinton Seeks Gulf Aid for Iran Sanctions, Iraq

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • America and the rise of middle powers
    Summary: Stephen Kinzer Turkey has been urging the US to change its approach to Iran by abandoning its policy of threats and sanctions. It suggests an approach based on rational self-interest rather than emotion: offer unconditional talks, not limited to the nuclear issue but aimed at a "grand b ...
  • Iran vows legal bid on Israeli terror
    Summary: MehmanparastIran says it will exploit all its resources to condemn Israel and bring the regime to justice over its terror efforts against Iranian nuclear scientists. source: Press TVread more
  • NUCLEAR IRAN A FALSEHOOD
    Summary: The United States makes  false claims of nuclear weapon threats in other nations because US government officials and others do not understand nuclear materials’ and weapons’ production technology and are unwilling to rely on information from those who do.  They also do not appreciate th ...
  • At least 70 people killed in Iranian passenger pla ...
    Summary: U.S. sanctions against Iran have prevented it from buying new aircraft or spare parts from the West. source: Reutersread more
  • Western skepticism at Iran's nuclear invite
    Summary: The United States and some of its Western allies have reacted with skepticism to Iran's invitation to several countries to tour its nuclear facilities, rather than view the move as a sign of goodwill and transparency in the run-up to talks with world powers over the Islamic Republic's ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Mystery Cosmic Molecules that Create the Foundatio ...
    A team of NASA and European scientists have recorded the "fingerprints" of mystery molecules in two distant galaxies, Andromeda and the Triangulum. Astronomers can count on one hand the number of galaxies examined so far for such fingerprints, which are...
  • Largest Galaxy Clusters in Observable Universe Dis ...
    Surveys undertaken over the past few decades to map the distribution of galaxies in the nearby universe have revealed a cosmic landscape of awesome diversity, with densely populated galaxy clusters, filamentary and sheet-like superclusters and enormous voids. One of the...
  • Antimatter Storms Observed (On Earth!)
    Using the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, researchers have detected beams of antimatter produced above thunderstorms, a phenomenon never before seen on earth. Scientists be;ieve the antimatter particles are formed in terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) – brief energy bursts produced inside...
  • Will NASA's New 'Glory' Spacecraft Silence Climate ...
    Glory is a low Earth orbit scientific research satellite designed to collect data on the properties of aerosols, including black carbon, in the Earth's atmosphere and climate system, and to collect data on solar irradiance for the long-term effects on...
  • 'The Daily Galaxy' January Contest -Win a Free $50 ...
    Use it towards a purchase of an iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or Hundreds of Other Apple Products and Accessories. Users of Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon are invited to discover, review and share Daily Galaxy posts you love on...

Natural News

  • How the Food Safety Modernization Act will destroy ...
    (NaturalNews) How will the new Food Safety Modernization Act actually impact small, local farmers who grow food for CSA's, local restaurants and grocers? To find out, I took a road trip to Texas and interviewed several small, local farmers to ask them, face to face, how the S.510 Food Safety Moderni ...
  • Timeline of recent mysterious bird, fish deaths
    (NaturalNews) The recent mysterious deaths of birds and fish are causing alarm among naturalists around the world. Birds are literally falling dead out of the sky, and fish are washing up dead on shores and rivers across North America and around the world. The reaction from the mainstream media seem ...
  • Green tea better at preventing cancer and dementia ...
    (NaturalNews) For years, NaturalNews has covered the mounting research linking green tea and its extracts to a host of disease-fighting benefits -- from halting the progression of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (http://www.naturalnews.com/029055_leukemia_green_tea.html) and reducing the risk of cardio ...
  • UK blames healthy people for causing flu vaccine s ...
    (NaturalNews) After months of hyping up the flu scare across the UK, the mad rush of citizens seeking to buy the vaccine has caused a severe shortage. UK hospitals and clinics have run out of the vaccine, and now a prominent doctor from the Royal College of GPs has publicly urged UK authorities to o ...
  • How Congress helped created the very mental illnes ...
    (NaturalNews) Giffords was assaulted while doing what more representatives in Washington should be doing: Talking with their constituents at home in a public place, right out in the open. In an age where many members of Congress hide behind closed doors and spend more time meeting with corporate lob ...

Threat Level

  • Lawyer Fears Assange Could Face Death Penalty in U ...
    A defense attorney for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange claims his client could face the death penalty if he’s extradited to Sweden, and if that country then passes him to U.S. authorities. Defense attorney Mark Stephens made the assertion in a 35-page document released Tuesday, which forecasts the ...
  • Twitter’s Response to WikiLeaks Subpoena Should Be ...
    ANALYSIS — Twitter introduced a new feature last month without telling anyone about it, and the rest of the tech world should take note and come up with their own version of it. Twitter beta-tested a spine. On Friday it emerged that the U.S. government recently got a court order demanding that Twit ...
  • Teen Bomb Hoaxer ‘Tyrone’ Sentenced to 22 Months T ...
    A North Carolina teenager who phoned in hoax bomb threats to colleges, middle schools and FBI offices around the country for the amusement of a live internet audience was headed for release Monday after being held nearly two years without bail. Ashton Lundeby, 18, was sentenced in South Bend, India ...
  • Feds Subpoena Twitter Seeking Information on Ex-Wi ...
    The U.S. Justice Department has served Twitter with a subpoena seeking information on an Icelandic lawmaker who has worked with WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, the lawmaker told Threat Level on Friday. “I got the letter from Twitter a couple of hours ago, saying I got 10 days to stop it,” ...
  • WikiLeaks Cables Cited in Lawsuit Over $500 Millio ...
    A deep-sea treasure-hunting company in Florida says that diplomatic cables recently released by WikiLeaks have exposed the U.S. government's backdoor interference in a lawsuit over $500 million in silver and gold coins recovered from a Spanish galleon.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • CNN's Erickson: Faith in Jesus the Lesson of Giff ...
    In the hours after the attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the first Jewish Congresswoman from Arizona, the New York Times visited her synagogue. After all, in 2006 Giffords explained, "My Jewish heritage has really instilled in me the importance of education and caring for the comm ...
  • Tucson Provides Gingrich's Latest Susan Smith Mome ...
    With inexplicable acts of violence as with marriage, Newt Gingrich apparently believes the third time's a charm. Seventeen years after he blamed Susan Smith's drowning of her two young sons on "Lyndon Johnson's Great Society" and 11 years after accusing the "liberal political elite" over the Columb ...
  • Small Businesses Adding Coverage Thanks to Health ...
    In the wake of Saturday's bloodbath in Tucson, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) announced that Wednesday's vote on the GOP bill to repeal health reform would be delayed. (That is altogether fitting, as Rep. Gabrielle Giffords received death threats and saw her office vandalized after her Ma ...
  • Republican Rhetoric, Right-Wing Terror
    "My tears are flowing and I am stunned and angered that Gabby Giffords was savagely gunned down while performing her congressional duties." So said Minnesota Republican Representative Michele Bachmann in response to Saturday's mass killing in Tucson. But less than a year ago, Bachmann called for r ...
  • New Chinese Fighter, Missile Alter Balance of Powe ...
    In 1996, President Clinton responded to provocative Chinese missile tests near Taiwan with what PBS described as "the largest show of naval force since the Vietnam War." But the American goal of preserving Taiwanese independence through a policy of "strategic ambiguity" may soon be untenable. With ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • The Great Tax Cut Debate - Myths and Facts
    In the lame-duck Congress agenda, perhaps the most substantive debate is over whether to continue tax breaks for the rich. President Obama and most Congressional Democrats want to extend the Bush tax cuts for 98 percent of Americans, everyone making under $250,000. Republicans want to extend the tax ...
  • What Landslide?: A Closer Look at the Midterm Elec ...
    By now, everyone has heard of the conservative "tidal wave" that has overtaken Congress and most gubernatorial seats throughout the U.S. Indeed, anyone who has watched mainstream media coverage probably understands the midterm election results as a "rebuke of Obama's policies," with the "Tea Party m ...
  • INS Targets Community Leaders, Not Criminals
    When people the world over think of Arizona nowadays, they generally think of Governor Jan Brewer, Sheriff Joe Arpaio or state representative Russell Pearce – the poster children of the state's move toward legalized discrimination and racial profiling. If they are closely following the politics of t ...
  • Dancing with Dynamite:How Citizens Can be More Tha ...
    Two years ago, President Obama sailed into the White House on the winds of voters’ desire for widespread social change and their disgust with two wars and a massive recession associated with George W. Bush. Only two years into his presidency and the concurrent Democratic takeover of Congress, howeve ...
  • Pope Says Condoms Acceptable 'In Certain Cases'
    Until now, the Vatican had prohibited the use of any form of contraception -- other than abstinence -- even as a guard against sexually transmitted disease.

Consortium News

  • The Coming War over the Constitution
    The Tea Party claims to both revere the Constitution and want to rip it up, a new test for American sanity, says Robert Parry. December 30, 2010
  • Birth of Pakistan's Islamic Extremism
    While helping the CIA fight Russians in Afghanistan in the 1980s, Pakistan adopted Islamic extremism, notes Alvaro Vargas Llosa. December 31, 2010
  • The US Media Hit on Helen Thomas
    After an off-hand blast at Israel, journalistic icon Helen Thomas became a pariah with her colleagues, notes Danny Schechter. December 29, 2010
  • Argentina's Dapper State Terrorist
    From the Archive: Argentina has finally brought ex-dictator Rafael Videla to justice, but America still honors his protector, Ronald Reagan.
  • Hungary's Embrace of Propaganda
    After a right-wing victory, Hungary embarks on a familiar path toward nationalistic propaganda, observes Abby Martin. December 29, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Texas’ 82nd Legislature – a bumpy ride?
    The Texas Legislature opened its 2011 session yesterday amid a great deal of fanfare, but little substance at this point.  However, we can expect more interesting things to happen starting today when the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission makes their legislative recommendations for such controvercial ...
  • WCS press conferance 094 [Flickr]
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
  • Texas may get a lump of radioactive waste in their ...
    UPDATED: Thanks to everyone who commented!  We’ll have a blog wrapup/ news release ASAP. VIDEO FROM OUR PRESS CONFERENCE ! And check our flikr photostream here on the blog for non moving pictures from this morning, if that’s more your thing. We now return you to your regularly scheduled snark, alre ...
  • Sunset Recommendations Coming Wednesday
    The Texas Sunset Advisory Commission will make its recommendations on how and whether to allow such state agencies as the Railroad Commission, the Public Utility Commission and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to stay in business, tomorrow, January 12th. The meeting convenes at 8 a.m. i ...
  • TPA News Roundup for Dec 27, 2010
    EDITOR’S NOTE: We want to thank the TPA for sharing their roundup every week.  We may not agree with every story they put up (and some of them are more partisan and political than others or what we normally write about), but the content is always interesting and entertaining and a good snapshot of ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Kepler discovers its first rocky planet
    NASA's Kepler telescope has discovered the smallest known planet outside our Solar System. After eight months of data collection by NASA's Kepler Tele...
  • WikiLeaks UFO release fizzles
    Newest release by Assange may disappoint those waiting for fresh, substantial evidence of UFOs. Julian Assange of WikiLeaks fame told The Guardian in ...
  • Hubble zooms in on Hanny's oddity
    The Hubble telescope has captured the best images yet of the ghostly green spatial anomaly. In 2007 a Dutch teacher and amateur astronomer came to the...
  • Are we too used to the idea of alien life ?
    How would mankind react to the discovery of alien life ? Have we become too used to the idea to care ? Psychologist Dr Albert Harrison believes that m...
  • Mona Lisa landscape mystery solved
    Historian Carla Glori may have identified the location shown in Da Vinci's Mona Lisa painting. Glori believes that the three-arch-bridge visible in th...

Grassroots

  • Gaza: Stories of Strength amid Assault and Siege
    3407229255_9879b60da3_b.jpg �Year before last, I was sitting in the living room of my childhood home sharing a cup of morning coffee with my mother and musing over the holidays. We laughed over kitschy Christmas gifts from well-meaning relativ ...
  • Petitioning the Israeli High Court for Justice
    cast.jpg Our partner, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), works to protect human rights and promote the rule of law. They have been recognized as an effective voice of the Palestinian people through awards such as the Human Rights ...
  • Building food sovereignty and economic justice
    2010_brazil_site_visit_026.jpg �read more
  • Traveling with The Vía Campesina’s Caravans for Li ...
    soberania_ya.jpg ��¡La Tierra No Se Vende � Se Ama y Se Defiende!� (English translation: �The Land is Not for Sale � It must be Loved and Defended!�) � A change from woman fighting against a large dam in Alpuyeca, Mexico read more
  • Brazilian referendum seeks limits to land concentr ...
    plebiscito_popular_logo.jpg Members of the Brazilian National Forum for Agrarian Reform and Justice announced this week the results of a non-binding referendum about whether the Brazilian government should limit the concentration of land held ...

Climate

  • Renewable Energy Group IRENA Seeks Big Budget Rise
    Source:� Reuters The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) is seeking a more than ten-fold increase in its annual budget to promote sustainable energy, its interim director-general said on Monday.
  • Alaska Pipeline Restart Unknown; Oil Up, BP Dips
    Source:� Reuters The Trans Alaska Pipeline was shut for a third day on Monday with no timeline for resuming oil flows after a leak forced producers to cut Prudhoe Bay output from 630,000 barrels per day to a trickle.
  • Oil Spill Panel to Recommend Tighter Rules, Money ...
    Source:� Washington Post The presidential oil-spill commission is planning to recommend tougher regulation, stiffer fines and a new industry-run safety organization in its final report Tuesday. read more
  • Australia’s Third-Largest City at Risk From Floods
    Source:� New York Times Officials urged thousands of people in Brisbane to flee on Tuesday as floodwaters that killed at least nine people rushed toward the coastal capital of 2 million people.
  • Video: Floods Inundate Toowoomba in Queensland
    Source:� Guardian Nine people are dead and 70 are missing after flooding in the Australian state of Queensland wrecked several towns and communities. Here, flash floods inundate the city of Toowoomba. � �

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

  • Is the tide turning in southern Afghanistan ?
    A new study says the United States is starting to turn around the war in southern Afghanistan following the surge and stepped-up raids, missile and air strikes.
  • How did the Haiti earthquake affect you?
    A year after the Haiti earthquake killed about 250,000 people and left more than a million homeless, a major multimedia documentary by Thomson Reuters Foundation takes viewers to the streets and tent cities of the shattered capital.
  • Pakistan and the taboo of secularism
    With Pakistani secularism battered by Salman Taseer's assassation, a view on why Europe separated religion from politics provides material for debate.
  • Pakistan’s nuclear weapons and the enemy wit ...
    Several experts have raised the issue of the safety of Pakistan's nuclear weapons in the wake of the assassination of a top politician by one of his guards as a sign that the highest security cordon could be breached.
  • In Pakistan, a death foretold
    The killing of provincial governor Salman Taseer for opposing Pakistan's blasphemy laws is likely to deter further those few who dare challenge them

Booman Tribune

  • A Bigger Story than Tuscon Shootings
    I know everyone wants to talk about the Giffords assassination attempt, who's to blame for it, issues regarding mental health, gun control, etc. etc. etc. Some stories seem to suck all the oxygen out of the air in this country when they occur. But while we continue with our endless and probably ...
  • Idle Rumination
    One of the oddest pieces of U.S. history is that we passed a constitutional amendment to ban the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors" and then a mere fourteen years later passed another amendment to repeal that amendment. Considering how impossibly hard it is to amend the ...
  • Things Are Looking Pretty Good
    I'm feeling really hopeful that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will make a very substantial recovery. According to her physicians, she can breath on her own but they are still giving her an oxygen tube to avoid the possibility of her taking on fluid in the lungs. She is also able to move her right arm (w ...
  • Senate Outlook 2012
    I want to do this as a useful exercise. We have 53 senators, but we're going to have a devil of a time preventing the Republicans from taking over the Senate in 2013. Below I am listing all the Republicans who are going to be on the ballot in November 2012. As you can see, they are not many of the ...
  • Serious Questions
    When politicians start talking about criminalizing speech I get a bit nervous, but I am willing to listen to the specifics on this: Rep. Robert Brady (D-Pa.) reportedly plans to introduce legislation that would make it a federal crime to use language or symbols that could be perceived as threaten ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • “Empathy Gap” Hinders Effectiveness of Bullying Pr ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Over the past several years, and especially in the past six months, schools nationwide have moved to fight bullying in their hallways and classrooms. Study after study shows that being victimized by a bully can be psychologically devastating. Bullying victims can devel ...
  • Better New Years Resolutions for Depression
    By Cynthia W. Lubow, MS, MFT, Depression Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Cynthia and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile It seems like most New Years resolutions are taken from people’s “should” list, and are about giving up pleasures, restricting pleasures, or working harder at someth ...
  • The Obseity Epidemic and Mindless Eating
    By Deborah Klinger, MA, Eating & Food Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Deborah and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile My local newspaper has been running a series of articles about the obesity epidemic. There have been pieces on the physiological factors that contribute to a pre ...
  • From Birth through School, Supporting At-Risk Chil ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Too often, youth who most need access to medical care, counseling, and social support are the ones least likely to receive it. There is no single way to change this trend, but the more insight we have into what kids are experiencing (or not experiencing) the better equ ...
  • Dying Regrets
    By Ker Cleary, MA, Contemplative Psychotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Ker and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile We as humans occupy the odd position of knowing we will die someday, and having no way of knowing how, where or when. This creates a kind of underlying fundamental ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • EPA crackdown on mountaintop removal named among e ...
    EPA crackdown on mountaintop removal named among environmental issues to watch ... Charleston Gazette (blog) The Obama administration's move to crack down on mountaintop removal coal mining has been listed in the Vermont Law School's annual collection of ...
  • Kathy Mattea added as a speaker for Bonds' Saturda ...
    Kathy Mattea added as a speaker for Bonds' Saturday service Huntington Herald Dispatch BECKLEY — Julia “Judy” Bonds, largely responsible for building resistance against mountaintop removal coal extraction from a local issue to a national ...
  • Should everyone cool off the coalfield rhetoric? - ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) Should everyone cool off the coalfield rhetoric? Charleston Gazette (blog) ... with each other � and to tone down the political rhetoric, whether it's about a �war on coal� or comparisons between mountaintop removal and genocide. ... and more��
  • Power trip - Mainebiz Daily
    Power trip Mainebiz Daily As an example of how fierce the opposition has become, some opponents of wind projects in western Maine have compared wind farms to mountain-top removal ... and more��
  • Protestors endure cold to say no to coal - OHIOU T ...
    Protestors endure cold to say no to coal OHIOU The Post Protestors cited air pollution, ozone deterioration and mountaintop removal as negative effects of using coal as an energy source. ...

Memeorandum

  • Paul Krugman, Buffoon (John/Power Line)
    John / Power Line: Paul Krugman, Buffoon  —  Within hours after Jared Loughner's killing spree, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman went straight for the gutter, proclaiming, with no evidence whatsoever, that Loughner's act was in all likelihood “political,” and going on to blame Republicans for ...
  • Police Say They Visited Tucson Suspect's Home Even ...
    New York Times: Police Say They Visited Tucson Suspect's Home Even Before Rampage  —  TUCSON — The police were sent to the home where Jared L. Loughner lived with his family on more than one occasion before the attack here on Saturday that left a congresswoman fighting for her life and six others ...
  • Speaker Boehner says no to new restrictions on fir ...
    Mike Lillis / The Hill: Speaker Boehner says no to new restrictions on firearms  —  Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is rejecting gun-control legislation offered by the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee in response to the weekend shootings of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and 19 others i ...
  • CNN's Erickson: In Wake Of Attempted Murder Of Jew ...
    Jamison Foser / Media Matters for America: CNN's Erickson: In Wake Of Attempted Murder Of Jewish Politician, It's Important To Stress “A Saving Faith In Jesus Christ”  —  CNN's Erick Erickson is upset with what people aren't saying about the attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords: … Fo ...
  • TIM PAWLENTY DEMONSTRATES THAT HE'S NOT MAN ENOUGH ...
    Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit: TIM PAWLENTY DEMONSTRATES THAT HE'S NOT MAN ENOUGH TO BE PRESIDENT.  Well, that was quick.  These are the times that try men's souls.  Sometimes, they're found wanting.  —  UPDATE: So Politico has updated its story and here's the key bit: … And here's my problem.  “It ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.3, Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia
    Wednesday, January 12, 2011 01:45:23 UTCWednesday, January 12, 2011 09:45:23 AM at epicenterDepth: 33.20 km (20.63 mi)
  • M 5.0, Yellow Sea
    Wednesday, January 12, 2011 01:19:56 UTCWednesday, January 12, 2011 09:19:56 AM at epicenterDepth: 18.50 km (11.50 mi)
  • M 5.1, off the coast of El Salvador
    Wednesday, January 12, 2011 01:05:37 UTCTuesday, January 11, 2011 07:05:37 PM at epicenterDepth: 51.10 km (31.75 mi)
  • M 5.1, Bonin Islands, Japan region
    Tuesday, January 11, 2011 23:47:53 UTCWednesday, January 12, 2011 09:47:53 AM at epicenterDepth: 33.60 km (20.88 mi)
  • M 5.0, Vanuatu
    Tuesday, January 11, 2011 07:39:17 UTCTuesday, January 11, 2011 06:39:17 PM at epicenterDepth: 95.20 km (59.15 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Ecological wisdom of the ages
    Longstanding Chinese ideals, which seek balance between man and nature, could help humans find a better way of living, writes Pan Yue, China’s vice minister for environmental protection.Traditional Chinese thought not only calls for the unity of man and nature, but provides the tools that allowed Ch ...
  • Opening the city gates
    China’s urban centres are making incremental improvements in environmental transparency, says a new study, but much more is needed to fuel the fight against pollution. Meng Si reports.China’s cities have made small advances in environmental transparency in the past year but are still failing to achi ...
  • Human error
    Last year’s deadly mudslide at Zhouqu offers compelling lessons on the ability of human development to increase the risk of natural disasters, writes Jiang Gaoming.2010 was another bad year for China in terms of natural disasters: severe drought in the south-west was followed by floods on the upper ...
  • Faith speaks in Seoul
    In a rare show of unity, South Korea’s religious leaders have joined forces against a project to dam the country’s four main rivers. Andrew Pascoe reports.Some say faith can move mountains – but that’s not where its relationship with nature ends, according to South Korea’s outspoken religious leader ...
  • Shifting sands
    Unchecked pumping of scarce water resources from beneath Siem Reap is putting the stability of Cambodia’s ancient Angkor temples at risk, writes Ben Doherty. Millions of litres are being extracted daily.The five-star hotels around the ancient temples of Angkor are oases of green; sleek new buildings ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Lawyer Fears Assange Could Face Death Penalty in U ...
    A defense attorney for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange claims his client could face the death penalty if he’s extradited to Sweden, and if that country then passes him to U.S. authorities. Defense attorney Mark Stephens made the assertion in a 35-page document released Tuesday, which forecasts the ...
  • Twitter’s Response to WikiLeaks Subpoena Should Be ...
    ANALYSIS — Twitter introduced a new feature last month without telling anyone about it, and the rest of the tech world should take note and come up with their own version of it. Twitter beta-tested a spine. On Friday it emerged that the U.S. government recently got a court order demanding that Twit ...
  • Teen Bomb Hoaxer ‘Tyrone’ Sentenced to 22 Months T ...
    A North Carolina teenager who phoned in hoax bomb threats to colleges, middle schools and FBI offices around the country for the amusement of a live internet audience was headed for release Monday after being held nearly two years without bail. Ashton Lundeby, 18, was sentenced in South Bend, India ...
  • Feds Subpoena Twitter Seeking Information on Ex-Wi ...
    The U.S. Justice Department has served Twitter with a subpoena seeking information on an Icelandic lawmaker who has worked with WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, the lawmaker told Threat Level on Friday. “I got the letter from Twitter a couple of hours ago, saying I got 10 days to stop it,” ...
  • WikiLeaks Cables Cited in Lawsuit Over $500 Millio ...
    A deep-sea treasure-hunting company in Florida says that diplomatic cables recently released by WikiLeaks have exposed the U.S. government's backdoor interference in a lawsuit over $500 million in silver and gold coins recovered from a Spanish galleon.

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Sarah Palin accuses critics of "blood libel"
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prominent Republican Sarah Palin on Wednesday accused critics of "blood libel" by blaming her rhetoric for contributing to the shooting rampage in Tucson that killed six and wounded 14, including Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords.
  • Major winter storm wallops U.S. Northeast
    * New York hopes to correct mistakes from last blizzard
  • Illinois lawmakers pass big tax hike to aid budget
    CHICAGO, Jan 12 (Reuters) - A big income tax increase squeaked through the Illinois House and Senate as Democratic lawmakers played beat-the-clock to get the measure passed before a new legislative session begins on Wednesday.
  • Hezbollah and allies to topple Lebanon government: ...
    BEIRUT (Reuters) - Ministers from Hezbollah and its allies will resign and bring down the Lebanese government of Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri on Wednesday ahead of indictments against the Shi'ite group over the killing of Hariri's father.
  • China downplays stealth jet threat as military mig ...
    BEIJING (Reuters) - China told the United States on Wednesday its first test-flight of a stealth fighter jet should not be seen as a threat, reiterating it had no intention to challenge U.S. military might in the Pacific.

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #467
    Ex-Mossad chief says Iran nuke program behind schedule. NSA breaks ground on Utah cybersecurity center. Colombian judge orders arrest of ex-spy chief. Continue reading →
  • New clues in extensive recount of al-Mabhouh assas ...
    The current issue of US-based magazine GQ contains what must be the most extensive account in English of the 2010 assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh by Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. Written by Israeli investigative journalist Ronen Bergman (author of The Secret War with Iran), the piece conta ...
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    A former CIA officer, who sued the Agency after he was fired, was arrested last Thursday in St. Louis, Missouri n charges of leaking classified information about a botched CIA covert operation in Iran. Continue reading →
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  • Analysis: Understanding WikiLeaks
    The WikiLeaks cablegate revelations appear to be subsiding in the new year, and so is the public debate about their meaning and consequences. And yet, as calmer moods prevail, now is the appropriate time to probe the WikiLeaks phenomenon. To do so constructively, it is necessary to move beyond a mer ...

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  • Gulf oil spill panel urges overhaul of oil industr ...
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- A presidential panel in its final report on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill called Tuesday for an overhaul of oil industry practices and the creation of an independent safety watchdog to avoid a repeat of the disaster. "The central lesson to be drawn from the ...
  • Green cars on the rise, but still a niche market
    by Agence France-Presse. Green vehicles stole the spotlight at the Detroit auto show this year, but their success depends on consumers, who are still shying away from their higher price tags. New models are starting to proliferate following the launch of the all-electric Nissan Leaf and the re ...
  • Toyota unveils a Prius wagon and more hybrids
    by Agence France-Presse. DETROIT -- Toyota unveiled new siblings for its popular Prius hybrid Monday, introducing a brand new midsized wagon, a plug-in, and a compact Prius at the Detroit auto show. The family was launched as Toyota struggles to rebuild its once-stellar reputation after it was ...
  • Giffords has environmental cred
    by Jess Zimmerman. By now you know the basic story: Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head on Saturday while appearing at a "Congress on Your Corner" event in Tucson. The shooting killed six, among them a federal judge and a nine-year-old girl. Giffords herself seems to be respondi ...
  • Al Gore urges China & U.S. to build greener cities
    by Agence France-Presse. BEIJING -- Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore said Thursday that China and the United States -- the world's biggest polluters -- should work on designing greener cities as part of their efforts to tackle climate change. The Nobel Peace Prize winner told an urban develo ...

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Farming Pathogens

  • Fearful Symmetry
    A colleague, genuinely perplexed, even outraged, asked me what the fuck was going on with all those dead birds in Arkansas. And, tongue-in-cheek, what would Mulder and Scully say? Scully: Mulder, it’s me. I got your message. Really, Beebe, Arkansas for a flock of dead birds? Does Skinner approve? Mu ...
  • The Great Recession Flu
    Swine flu is so 2009. Like La Roux and v-neck t-shirts. And yet the United Kingdom is presently suffering a swine flu attack worse than anything it faced in 2009. The number of flu patients in intensive care has risen by 60 per cent in the past week to 738, four times greater than at [...]
  • Alien vs. Predator
    Dallas: [looks at a pen being dissolved by alien's body fluid] I haven’t seen anything like that except, uh, molecular acid. Brett: It must be using it for blood. Parker: It’s got a wonderful defense mechanism. You don’t dare kill it. –Alien (1979) NASA announced earlier this month one of its resear ...
  • That’s the Thicke
    The logistics of a just, equitable and healthy agricultural landscape here in the United States would remain a problem if Michael Pollan himself, Wendell Berry, or better yet Fred Magdoff were appointed Secretary of Agriculture. Decades-long efforts pealing back agribusiness both as paradigm and inf ...
  • Farming Pathogens Semifinalist
    Thanks to your votes Farming Pathogens piece ‘The Alan Greenspan Strain’ is a semifinalist in 3 Quarks Daily’s search for best political blog post of the year. Those posts remaining will be judged as early as today by 3 Quarks Daily editors. The final six will then be judged by Harper’s and Lapham’s ...

Suzie-Q

  • Brave Woman Who Grabbed Clip from Shooter Blames R ...
    Brave Woman Who Grabbed Clip from Shooter Blames Right-Wing Media and Rhetoric … In Fox News Interview AlterNet / By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd In an interview on Fox, the brave woman who helped stop Loughner calls out right-wing media for creating an environment that encourages violent impulses.   ...
  • Palin’s Target List
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  • Arizona Shooting: Photo Of Possible Second Suspect ...
    Photo Of Possible Second Suspect Released The Pima County Sheriff’s Department has released a photograph of a man they believe may be associated with Jared Lee Loughner: “He is described as a Caucasian male, approximately 40-50 years old, dark hair and was last seen wearing blue jeans and a dark blu ...
  • Arizona Shooting: Christina Taylor Greene, 9-Year- ...
    Christina Taylor Greene: Arizona Shooting Claims Life Of 9-Year-Old Born On 9/11 Huff Post- First Posted: 01- 9-11 12:29 AM   |   Updated: 01- 9-11 02:17 AM Nine-year-old Christina Taylor Greene was among those killed in a tragic shooting in Tucson, Ariz. on Saturday. The incident occurred at a publ ...
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    starcasm.net VIDEO PHOTO âGolden-voicedâ homeless dude Ted Williams gets multiple job offers Jan – 05 Ted Williams, the homeless guy from Columbus, Ohio with a golden voice got his life changed by the internet! A dude with a camera asked him to make good on displaying the âGod Given GIftâ advertised ...

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  • International GMO Liability Treaty: Agreement Afte ...
    (24 September 2010) After six years of intense negotiations, parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety finally agreed on a new international treaty in Nagoya, Japan. According to the treaty, countries that import genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and plant them will now have a legal claim ...
  • Ashley Turton, DC Lobbyist Found in Burning Car
    Car was in a Capitol Hill garage. DC, Capitol police on the scene. Deceased identified as Ashley Turton, wife of White House liaison to the House of Representatives Dan Turton. Turton worked as a lobbyist for the Raleigh, N.C.-based utility giant Progress Energy. She was the former chief of staff t ...
  • Activity on Gabrielle Giffords Wikipedia Page
    By Brad DeLong My suspicion is that this is simply coincidence and proves once again the dangers of drawing conclusions in the field of human action from historical data. Continue reading the article . . .
  • Phones Providers Aim to Replace Wallets, IDs
    For many people, smart phones are almost as indispensable as wallets. And soon, your smart phone could replace your wallet. A collection of the biggest wireless carriers, handset makers and software developers are putting their weight behind a technology called near-field communication. That standa ...
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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job. [. ...
  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
    Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more��
  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afg ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri Lanka Gu ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United Press ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA new ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��

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Sideways News

  • Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
    The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
  • Brit mums strict about eco-chores
    Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
  • UK venue offers rainforest weddings
    Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
  • Battery recycling 'too difficult'
    The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
  • 10 green resolutions to save you money
    By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become obsol ...

Fabius Maximus

  • More jobs, bought at a dear cost (to be paid for i ...
    Summary:    The US economy continues its slow “recovery.”  It’s not an organic recovery, as it results from three years of massive fiscal and monetary stimulus — powerful medicine, with serious side-effects (to be felt in the future).  Lost in our delusions, we confuse this with actual health. ...
  • We were participants in one of the great battles o ...
    Summary:  Some of the “great battles” were nothing of the kind.  This is easily seen by comparing them with a truly great battle, one that looks to have decisive effects:  9-11. For centuries western historians described the Battle of Tours (aka Poitiers) as one of the world’s decisive battles. ...
  • For the holiday season, here are some comforting t ...
    Summary:  As the sky darkens over America we find comfort in logical but incorrect beliefs, ignoring the horrifying nature of our core problem.  Here are two comforting examples. (1)  Our leaders have bad advisors In both national security and economics we have well-funded think-tanks advocating ...
  • Second thoughts by 2 major boosters of the Af-Pak ...
    Summary:   Guest author Bernard Finel discusses yet another think-tank report giving prescriptions for the Af-Pak War.  But this one is a surprise, a serious walk-back by one of the powerful institutional advocates of our foreign wars.  Perhaps they’re cutting their losses and gearing up for t ...
  • The insight that must precede reform of America: t ...
    Summary:  The last few weeks have produced news confirming that the Constitution is dead, the still heart of the Republic.  Realistic planning for reform must start with that grim fact or remain pie-in-the-sky fantasy. From the mailbag:  “There is only one peaceful solution to our great crisis, f ...

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 ...

The Progressive Realist

  • State Dept. Push for Turkish-Armenian Normalizatio ...
    Although it received comparatively little attention in the US, the State Department's attempt to push for Turkish-Armenian normalization was one of the great foreign-policy follies of the early Obama Administration. There was little chance that the Turkish public would accept normalization absent so ...
  • Gitmo Recidivism, Ctd.
    In the past, third-party groups have cast doubt on the "recidivism" numbers provided by the government estimating how many former Gitmo detainees have engaged in terrorist activity since their release. The most recent numbers issued by the government, which included both "confirmed and suspected re ...
  • Reconciling Afghanistan
    2010 was a grueling year of civilian deaths, corruption scandals and disputed elections in Afghanistan. I departed Kabul with a heavy heart on December 14. At the top of the stairs leading to my Dubai-bound flight, I gazed into the blanket of dust and ash covering the wartime capital, thought of fri ...
  • Anonymous from Afghanistan
    The below is an email I received last week from a friend of mine in the Army on his second combat deployment to Afghanistan.  In addition, to his two Afghan deployments, he has fought for our country in both Iraq wars. Unfortunately, I cannot attribute his views to his name, however they are rep ...
  • Peter King: Muslims Aren't Americans When It Comes ...
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TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: Revolving Doors.
    It looks as though an emerging conservative narrative coming out of Saturday's violence is that once again�a Democratic president will knowingly exploit the event to blame the conservative media for inciting violence. Or in the words of the ever-classy Rush Limbaugh, "Mr. Loughner knows is that he ...
  • The Little Picture: The Verizon iPhone.
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  • How Old Media Fails.
    The Columbia Journalism Review has a great example of the way old media sometimes fails to adjust to new media. The Columbia Dispatch is the paper that broke the story about Ted Williams, the then-homeless man who is now a sports announcer.A reader, who credited the Dispatch, took the video of Willi ...
  • The Death of a Ladyblog.
    Salon has closed its woman-focused site Broadsheet, which is probably one of the longest-running news blogs targeting women; it was started in 2005. Salon editor-in-chief, Kerry Lauerman, writes: For much of the last year, Broadsheet has been a one-woman show performed by Tracy Clark-Flory. She's ...
  • Obama Should Focus on Mental Health Care.
    I wasn't a fan of David Frum's "reefer madness" post on the Loughner shooting, but this is a good recommendation for what President Obama should say in his comments in Arizona tomorrow: Go all in on mental health. Liberals will want the president to address gun control. Unsmart. Stokes your oppos ...

Buzzflash

  • Isn't What Happened in Arizona Media-Fed Bigoted W ...
    MARK KARLIN, BUZZFLASH EDITOR FOR TRUTHOUT Where does one start in the wake of the political killing spree that occurred in Arizona on Saturday? With John Wilkes Booth putting a bullet into the head of Abraham Lincoln? With the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy? With the shooting ...
  • Fear, Smear, Incitement and Political Death and Vi ...
    STEPHEN CROCKETT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The shootings in Arizona should be producing a crisis of conscience on the political Right in this nation. However, I am not sure we are going to see that result. Extreme language, violent rhetoric and demonizing opponents have been very successful tact ...
  • Bill Daley: Chicago's First Family Abandons Workin ...
    MARK KARLIN, BUZZFLASH EDITOR FOR TRUTHOUT Bill Daley is a vivid metaphor of the Democratic Party abandonment of the working class. Back in the day, when I was a full-time advocate for handgun control, I got to know Richard M. Daley (the outgoing mayor of Chicago) and his brother Bill a bit. In f ...
  • On MSNBC, Rep. Giffords Warned About Palin’s Havi ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT "When people do that," she said, "they have got To realize there are consequences." There's blood on the ex-governor's hands here, No matter what her defense is. http://www.kold.com/Global/story.asp?S=13809287 In addition to Verse-Case Scenario, Tony Peyser ...
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    STEPHEN PIZZO FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT I'll tell you when I get worried. I get worried when neo-fascists start getting all misty-eyed and blubbery. When that happens you know they're in charge. When they're not in charge they yell, they accuse, they threaten, they warn of impending doom. Demago ...

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  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Medical Marijuana Patient Advocates Stage Rallies ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 10, 2011Americans for Safe AccessAngry but peaceful protests will be held this Wednesday in response to what patient advocates are calling an unnecessary escalation of federal interference in medical marijuana states. Protests are scheduled to occur at various times Wed ...
  • Challenge to Huge Coal Strip Mine in Montana Clear ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 10, 2011EarthjusticeDistrict Court Judge Joe Hegel today ruled that the Sierra Club and the Montana Environmental Information Center had brought reasonable claims against the State of Montana and St. Louis-based Arch Coal regarding the proposed leasing of the Otter Cree ...
  • Recommendations of UK Report on Deepwater Drilling ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 10, 2011Food & Water Watch Europe"The newly published report by the UK's Energy and Climate Committee on the implications of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill for deepwater drilling on the UK Continental Shelf fully reaffirms Food & Water Europe's position on the specific ...
  • MSF Report on Haiti: Despite Massive Aid Response, ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 10, 2011Doctors Without Borders (MSF)One year after a devastating earthquake killed an estimated 222,000 people and left 1.5 million people homeless, Haitians continue to endure appalling living conditions amid a nationwide cholera outbreak, despite the largest human ...
  • Simple Decency Demands No Less
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 10, 2011Common CauseWhatever we ultimately learn about the motives of Jared Loughner, the shooter behind Saturday's tragedy in Tucson, his twisted acts should trigger reflection by every American on the sorry and potentially dangerous state of our public discourse.read ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Open Letter to President Obama: Meet with Civil So ...
    by Ralph NaderDear President Obama: The sentiments expressed in this letter may have more meaning more for you now that the results of the mid-term elections are clear. You have seen what can happen when a number of your supporters lose their enthusiasm and stay home or do not actively partici ...
  • Hate Speech: The Right’s Magic Bullet
    by Michael WinshipThe Russian playwright Anton Chekhov had a rule: if you show a gun in the first act, by the time the curtain falls, it has to go off. For weeks and months, that gun, the weapon of angry rhetoric and intemperate rabblerousing, has been cocked and loaded in plain view on the American ...
  • Simon Johnson, Big Banks, and the Populist Moment
    by Russell MokhiberThe six biggest banks in America? Wells Fargo. Citibank. Bank of America. JP Morgan Chase. Morgan Stanley. Goldman Sachs. Together, they control assets equal to about 65 of GDP. Twenty years ago, that number was about 15 percent of GDP. Simon Johnson is the ...
  • The Tucson Massacre: After the Cameras Are Gone?
    by Roberto RodriguezAs a journalist/columnist of nearly 40 years, I can tell you what will happen in Tucson in a few days. Better yet, I will tell you what the media will do in the next few days; the cameras will leave. It's called parachute journalism. The whole country is exposed to or gets a gl ...
  • Zero Hour for Social Security
    by Robert KuttnerAs I have previously warned--and I hope I'm wrong--President Obama seems on the verge of needlessly cutting America's most valued social program and the one that best differentiates Republicans from Democrats. This is part of a vain effort to appease deficit hawks in his own part ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Joe Klein Has No Clue
    By Steve Hynd This week's TIME has a piece by veteran fan of armed interventions, Joe Klein, risably entitled "What it will take to finish the job in Afghanistan". It's worth a read as an example of how the U.S. hasn't a blessed clue how to accomplish any such thing, being a precis of the convention ...
  • An expensive stasis
    By Dave Anderson: Bernard Finel is depressing me as he explains why he is writing less now about Afghanistan than he has in the past. I am depressed because I fundamentally agree with him: At some point we’ll declare “combat operations” ended in Afghanistan. This will reduce the violence in the coun ...
  • What Do You Do With A Friedman Unit? Surge!
    By Steve Hynd There's news today that Bob Gates will use the authority given to him by President Obama last January and increase the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan by another 1,400 Marines in time for the spring campaigning season there. Commanders in Afghanistan and advocates of the strategy ...
  • CNN Poll: 63% of Americans Want Out Of Afghanistan
    By Steve Hynd You can fool some of the people all of the time...especially if they vote Republican. More than six in ten Americans oppose the U.S. war in Afghanistan, according to a new national poll. And a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Thursday also indicates that 56 percent of t ...
  • Pakistan's PM Has Political Woes
    By Steve Hynd News today that the second largest party in Pakistan's governing coalition, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has withdrawn it's support for the government, ostensibly due to "a hike in gasoline prices and new taxation measures" but more likely because the government won't use it's pa ...

Water Wars

  • Pasco site may return to developer to lure industr ...
    By Jodie Tillman, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, January 11, 2011 DADE CITY — Pasco commissioners agreed Tuesday to pursue returning a county-owned site to the developer with the stipulation it be used for a business with high-paying jobs. Commissioners, in a 5-0 vote, directed county staffers to work ...
  • Pasco site may be returned to developer to lure ne ...
    By Jodie Tillman, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, January 11, 2011 DADE CITY — Pasco commissioners agreed Tuesday to pursue returning a county-owned site to the developer with the stipulation it be used for a business with high-paying jobs. Commissioners, in a 5-0 vote, directed county staffers to work ...
  • Pasco site may be returned to lure new industry
    By Jodie Tillman, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, January 11, 2011 DADE CITY – Pasco commissioners agreed Tuesday to pursue returning a county-owned site to the developer with the stipulation it be used for a business with high-paying jobs. Commissioners, in a 5-0 vote, directed county staff to work out ...
  • Turkey to build joint dams with all neighbors exce ...
    The foundation laying for the dam was scheduled for Jan. 31 on the river of Orontes.
  • Georgia legislators talk business with local offic ...
    State and local officials met bright and early to discuss possible issues for the upcoming state legislative session. Dougherty County commissioners were up first with the Georgia, Florida, Alabama water use dispute at the top of their list.

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Afghanistan Sun

  • 30 Taliban militants surrender in Afghanistan
    Thirty Taliban militants gave up insurgency in Afghanistan's Ghor province and surrendered to authorities Wednesday, Xinhua reported.
  • Biden repeats 'do more' mantra for Pak o ...
    U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden has cautioned that success against the Taliban and Al Qaeda is 'fragile and reversible,' and added that it required strengthening of local security forces and more pressure by Pakistan.
  • Two British men believed to be kidnapped in Pakist ...
    Police in Pakistan are searching for two British men believed to have been kidnapped close to the Khyber Pass, an area notorious for Taliban activity and criminal gangs.
  • 5 NATO troops killed in Afghanistan
    Roadside bombs and an insurgent attack claimed the lives of five coalition troops Wednesday, NATO said, while the Taliban took aim at the Afghan intelligence services, killing four people and wounding
  • 3 service members killed in Afghanistan
    The damaged minibus is seen at the scene after it was attacked by a suicide attacker in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011. A suicide bomber on a motorbike blew himself up next to the mini

Futurismic

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

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on Government Oversight

  • Fields Resigns as Special IG for Afghanistan Recon ...
    The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), Arnold Fields, announced yesterday that he will resign from his post. That announcement comes less than a week after the firing by Fields of SIGAR’s two top deputies, John Brummet and Raymond...
  • Live Stream of Panel Discussion on Military-Indust ...
    Today POGO Executive Director Danielle Brian is over at the New America Foundation for a panel discussion on the military-industrial complex. You can tune in to a live stream of the discussion, which began at 12:15 EST, below. Danielle's fellow...
  • Morning Smoke: SIGAR Break: Afghanistan Reconstruc ...
    Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. Senators hail...
  • Help Identify the Senator Who Placed a Secret Hold ...
    WNYC's On the Media and our partners at the Government Accountability Project (GAP) are spearheading an effort to identify the senator who torpedoed the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) with a secret hold. As you may recall, the WPEA—the product...
  • Morning Smoke: IG: Army Bungles LOGCAP Contract
    Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. IG finds...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Taliban numbers intact despite surge in Allied for ...
    A recent Washington Post article suggests that the Taliban has endured the recent offensive by NATO and U.S. forces with its numerical strength intact (Slobodan Lekic, “Taliban Strength Unaffected by Allied Surge,” Washington Post, 6 January 2010). “A NATO official said this week that the alliance e ...
  • Our annual 2011 Ceasefire.ca member survey results ...
    Continued satisfaction and support among Ceasefire.ca members! A new year and members remain fond of e-mail communications involving articles, and petitions. We are extremely pleased that nearly 83% of members stated that the frequency of the correspondence is “just right.” More than half of members ...
  • Coach’s Corner faces heat for using platform to pr ...
    Hockey Fans for Peace, a newly created Vancouver-based group, plans on challenging Don Cherry’s provocative pro-war comments on Coach’s Corner, stating that his program is not the place to promote Cherry’s military beliefs (Jack Keating, “Hockey Fan group challenge Cherry’s ‘pro war’ stance,” Postme ...
  • Canada on the international stage: Looking back at ...
    In this CTV News article, Steven Staples and other foreign policy analysts look back on an eventful 2010, identifying two major Canadian foreign policy failures and blaming poor diplomacy and a lack of Canadian leadership on international issues (Josh Visser, “Did Canada punch above its weight on th ...
  • “Wordle” of Ceasefire.ca members’ comments

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-11-11
    Today, Kevin reveals the steps to reduce the effects of brainwashing and gives you the recipe to manifest all your dreams! Self Help: Get Paid To Listen To KT Stop Showering In Toxins Achieve Your Dreams Get Your Thinking Right Get A Discount! Big Pharma: Suspect In Arizona Shootings Had History Of ...
  • Essential Oils Help Combat Acne and Scarring
    January 11th, 2011 Natural News By: Fleur Hupston Acne medications on the market often contain acids and chemicals that dry the skin and cause rashes, redness and peeling. Essential oils provide a gentle and inexpensive way of treating acne, clearing infections and healing acne scarring. Known for t ...
  • Do Synthetic Food Colors Cause Hyperactivity?
    January 11th, 2011 Chicago Tribune By: Julie Deardorff Food coloring is the reason glace cherries are red rather than beige and that children’s tongues sometimes appear freakishly blue. But man-made dyes may do more than make processed food look vibrant and whimsical. Some blame the additives for tr ...
  • Obesity May Be a Factor in Vitamin D Deficiency
    January 11th, 2011 Natural News By: Amelia Bentrup People who weigh more have lower circulating levels of Vitamin D according to recent research conducted at the Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet Medical Center in Oslo, Norway and published in the Journal of Nutrition. Lead researcher, Zoya Lagunova, ...
  • Birch Bark Nutrient Prevents Obesity, Diabetes and ...
    January 11th, 2011 Natural News By: Jonathan Benson Researchers from the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBC) in China have identified a powerful compound in birch bark called betulin that helps lower cholesterol and prevent both diabetes and obesity. And betulin works particularly bet ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • America unhinged
    Will January 8, 2011, be remembered as yet another date that will live in infamy? Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) was having a beer and eating pizza at a New Jersey bar when he heard the news via the television. Soon thereafter, he was contacted by his staff and was on the phone with other House member ...
  • The day there is no Iranian bomb
    Didi Remez provides a translation of an op-ed by Sever Plocker that appeared in the Hebrew edition of Yedioth Ahronoth: One of the most historically important statements to have been made in the past ten years in the State of Israel made headlines in the Israeli media on Friday for a single day. It ...
  • Why the destruction of the Shepherd Hotel in East ...
    Joseph Dana writes that the destruction of the Shepherd Hotel in East Jerusalem confirms that the two-state solution is finished and that it is time to start fighting for democratic rights for all of the residents of the land under Israeli military rule. Israel and Palestine are under full Israeli ...
  • Israel’s drift towards fascism
    “[Benjamin Netanyahu] and each of the 41 MKs [members of Israel's parliament] who voted for the establishment of a political committee to hunt the human rights organizations, will be remembered as being the ones who attempted to smash what is left of democracy in Israel and impose a fascist regime,” ...
  • America’s permanent culture of political violence
    Glenn W. LaFantasie, Professor of Civil War History at Western Kentucky University, writes: It’s my belief,… that American political violence is a direct legacy of the American Revolution, for the patriotsâ victory in that conflict proved to the American people that violence could achieve a positiv ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Supreme court rejects hearing Hurricane Katrina AG ...
    From BusinessInsurance.com: Supreme Court wonât hear global warming case WASHINGTON âThe U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday not to review a pivotal global warming case brought by coastal residents seeking damages for property damage caused by Hurricane Katrina. In Ned Comer … Continue reading →
  • Another guy with a laptop outforecasts the Met Off ...
    Piers Corbyn, while seemingly a bit eccentric, has the distinction of being the only man to have this headline: The man who repeatedly beats the Met Office at its own game Armed only with a laptop, huge quantities of publicly … Continue reading →
  • Nearly 70% of the USA is covered in snow
    Meanwhile, New York City declares a weather emergency due to snow. Data from the National Weather Service National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center in Minnesota show that nearly 70% of the USA has snow cover. January 11, 2011 data:   … Continue reading →
  • New Scientist – Those cursed climate emails
    Guest post by Barry Woods, UK The last 2010 edition (Dec 25th 2010) of New Scientist (UK) has a review of 2010 and a preview of 2011 section… …and they are rather optimistic that the world has finally moved on from the Climategate emails. … Continue reading →
  • CO2 sequestration ‘splodes in Saskatchewan
    From the “nobody could convince them it was a bad idea in the first place” department… The Canadian Press – ONLINE EDITION Carbon injected underground now leaking, Saskatchewan farmer’s study says By: Bob Weber, The Canadian Press A Saskatchewan farm … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Fracking Hell: The Untold Story
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ http://www.linktv.org/ An original investigative report by Earth Focus and UK’s Ecologist Film Unit looks at the risks of natural gas development in the Marcellus Shale. From toxic chemicals in drinking water to unregulated interstate dumping of potentially radio ...
  • Facing the horror of needless Afghan War
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ photo by Dandelion Salad joefriendly | January 10, 2011 Back from Afghanistan, Kathy Kelly, Eric Stoner, and Mike Ferner make clear the needless tragedy of death, maiming, and destruction going on daily that the American People need to face and reject. Moderated ...
  • Close Gitmo, End Torture Demonstration at U.S. Jus ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ liamh2 | January 11, 2011 On Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 11, 2011, scores of Human Rights activists demonstrated outside the U.S. Justice Department, in Washington, D.C. They were staging “a day of action,” directed at closing Gitmo and ending torture. There were no ...
  • Additional Omitted Points in CIA-Gulen coverage & ...
    by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post January 11, 2011 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 ...
  • The Case for Socialism by Rocket Kirchner
    photo by Dandelion Salad by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) January 11, 2011 I never was a very good Capitalist. I felt it was wrong and boring. And I never bought into Communism either. There are those who confuse an American ...

Your New Reality

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    Hey Gun Massacre Guy! We're Gonna Make You Famous! Just Like You Wanted! By Darryl Mason It was once forbidden in newspaper journalism to write that someone had committed suicide, even if they were famous, a prime minister, a movie star. The fear, based in what has long seemed to be pretty solid e ...
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    There's so much to say about this wonderful, brilliant lecture by Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy author Douglas Adams, but I'm not going to spoil any of it. Just get through the first 10 minutes or so and you'll find it almost impossible to stop listening. I had to tear myself away from it at 3am, ...
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    Extraordinary.
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    Ron Paul : In a society where truth becomes treason...we are in big trouble. The truth is that our foreign spying, meddling and outright military intervention in the post-World War 2 era has made us less secure, not more, and we have lost countless lives and spent trillions of dollars for our t ...
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    A Christian South Korean Christmas Greeting To Atheist North Korea If war between South Korea & North Korea breaks out soon, you will seen footage from this Live War Rehearsal passed off in the mainstream media as footage from the actual conflict.

Wired - 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Amira Hass: The nation is behind you, Galant
    The army's seizure of land "for military and security purposes" quickly turned into large-scale appropriation for the exclusive benefit of Israel's super-citizens, at the expense of the subpar... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Haneen Zoabi: There can be no coexistence with a r ...
    The persecution of “Jewish Left extremists” creates a different dynamic than the persecution of Arab citizens. Political persecution is now extending to all layers of Jewish society, permeating into... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Lamis Andoni: The Arab world must face its demons
    In the wake of the recent attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt, Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, warned that Christians face a campaign of "religious cleansing in the Middle East". But, given... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Netanyahu: Building on site of East Jerusalem hote ...
    "It cannot be expected from the State of Israel to forbid Jews from purchasing private property in Jerusalem. There is no democratic country in the world that would impose such a ban on Jews and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Gideon Levy: The IDF’s bag of lies
    Instead of working toward revealing the truth behind the recent death of an anti-fence demonstrator the IDF is behaving like the propaganda ministry of an authoritarian regime. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Technique Allows Researchers to Identify Key Maize ...
    Scientists have identified the genes related to leaf angle in corn (maize) - a key trait for planting crops closer together, which has led to an eight-fold increase in yield since the early 1900s.
  • New Microscope Records Firing of Thousands of Ind ...
    UCLA researchers have develop a non-invasive, ultra high-speed microscope that can record the firing of thousands of individual brain cells--neurons--as they communicate or mis-communicate with each other, in real time and in 3D.
  • First Genetic Test for Predicting IVF Success
    A researcher at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has helped to develop the first genetic blood test for predicting the chances that in vitro fertilization (IVF) will lead to a successful pregnancy. The test, reported in the online medical journal PLoS One, is based on the fi ...
  • Nursing School Awarded Healthy Sum For Scholarship ...
    Baylor University's Louise Herrington School of Nursing has been selected among the nation's top nursing schools to receive coveted scholarship funds for undergraduate nursing students from the nation's largest private funder devoted exclusively to nursing students and nursing education.
  • Peers Elect MD Anderson's Hung and Lozano as Fello ...
    Innovative insights into a vital tumor-suppressing mechanism that is often broken in malignant cells and a type of receptor protein that frequently goes haywire to stimulate cancer growth have earned two scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center membership in a distinguished as ...

Natural Health News

  • Staticky Cat vs. Balloon
    This cat is really attached to his balloon!
  • Once Upon a Time
    Adorable French children comment on vintage technologies from not-so-very long ago.
  • France Braced for Diabetic Drug Scandal
    French health experts believe that the diabetes drug Mediator may have killed anywhere from 500 to 2,000 people before it was finally banned. �Mediator was kept on the market for years in spite of warnings about its side-effects, which include heart valve disease and pulmonary hypertension.� Doctors ...
  • Too Much TV Time May Hurt Your Heart
    Spending your time gazing at a TV or computer screen can hurt your heart and shorten your life -- even if you exercise at other times.� A study found that people who spent at least four hours each day watching TV, playing video games, or using a computer for fun were more than twice as likely to exp ...
  • Pepsi's Answer to 'Eat Natural': Snackify Beverag ...
    Pepsi has recently announced two changes to its products.� First, half its Frito-Lay chips will now be made with �all natural� ingredients (bear in mind that �natural� has no regulatory meaning --�companies largely define for themselves what the word means). Second, Pepsi announced a new children�s ...

Antemedius

  • Abolishing the Senate: Yet Another Horrendously Ba ...
    I'm loathe to make a habit of using my entries to give lengthy responses to other peoples' diaries, but this one by Jon Walker was so heinous that I feel it necessary to make the case (again) for why eliminating the Senate (or even the more short-term agenda of getting rid of the filibuster) is a ho ...
  • Meet the New Imperial Court, Same As the Old Imper ...
    One of the mistakes that foreigners make about the United States, millions of Americans make themselves with much less justification: they overestimate the difference between members of the Democratic and Republican Parties in Washington, D.C. The two parties scream at each other on television quite ...
  • Beyond WikiLeaks: The Privatization of War
    From Jose L. Gomez del Prado, UN Working Group on Mercenaries: The United Nation Human Rights Council, under the Universal Periodic Review, started in Geneva on November 5, 2010 to review the human rights record of the United States. The following is an edited version of the presentation given by Jo ...
  • WikiLeaks' Assange "happy about today's outcome" A ...
    Following his initial extradition hearing today in Belmarsh Magistrates Court, London, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said he was "happy about today's outcome" and "said the skeleton argument he and his legal team hastily produced over Christmas will be made publicly available later" reports the U ...
  • Darrel Issa A Rep. Of Very Little Brain
    I was told by my more aggressively Lefty friends before the election that even if the Republicans won control or one or both houses of Congress it would not really be that different. I can even suppose that is true, from a 100,000 foot perspective. There will be legislation that we don’t approve of, ...

Climategate

  • Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
    Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
  • ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks more tr ...
    ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
  • How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
    What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “smoking g ...
  • What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Report ...
    A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
  • Schools call for a “balanced teaching of global wa ...
    USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

  • Southern Sudan: Drawing Citizenship Boundaries
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro If as expected Southern Sudan votes to secede in this weekend’s referendum, territorial boundaries should be drawn neatly enough.  Boundaries of human community may be more difficult. At issue is the status of southerners resident in the north and vice versa.  The ...
  • Best Post of 2010?
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis We’ve been light on blogging with the holidays this week.  So, as 2010 comes to a close, I thought I’d open a comment thread for those readers still trolling the blogosphere this week to note your favorite Opinio Juris post of the year.  For me, it turns out I ...
  • More from Jack Goldsmith on WikiLeaks
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Today at Lawfare: If DOJ tries to prosecute Assange, we will see more and more scrutiny of double standards in the treatment of traditional media leak solicitors (NYT etc.) v. Assange, and of double standards in the treatment of high-level U.S. governmen ...
  • Sovereigntism in a Nutshell
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro From a new pamphlet, Why Does Sovereignty Matter to America? Merry Christmas from the folks at the Heritage Foundation: [T]oday, our sovereignty faces new threats. International organizations and courts seek to reshape the international system. Nations are to give up ...
  • Southern Sudan: Drawing Citizenship Boundaries
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro If as expected Southern Sudan votes to secede in this weekend’s referendum, territorial boundaries should be drawn neatly enough.  Boundaries of human community may be more difficult. At issue is the status of southerners resident in the north and vice versa.  The ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • BREAKING NEWS: Arizona shooter of Gabrielle Giffor ...
    The young gunman who shot and killed six people, and left Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition, appears to have borne a grudge against Giffords after meeting her in 2007 at the age of 19. According to reports, former...
  • New study says CO2 rise a result of warmer tempera ...
    A new peer reviewed study supports another contention I raised in Air Con: that CO2 increase follows temperature increase, and that there appears to be no correlation between fossil fuel emissions and temperature. The paper is available in full in...
  • RIP Chris Carter, Investigate columnist
    It's an odd thing, finding out on the radio news that your magazine's longest serving opinion columnist has passed away. What turns out to be his last column only hit the newsstands yesterday in the latest Investigate magazine: Chris Carter...
  • Climate scientists go feral, begin wearing cammo g ...
    Utah survivalists infiltrate climate science community. Whodathunkit?: It might surprise, and hopefully disturb you, to hear that in my short time at AGU, I discovered four scientists who are already creating some form of survival retreat for their family, and...
  • Admission: climate science IS stalking horse for g ...
    Slate magazine calls it: For 20 years, evidence about global warming has been directly and explicitly linked to a set of policy responses demanding international governance regimes, large-scale social engineering, and the redistribution of wealth. These are the sort of...

My Care2 Picks

  • Conventional Thinking
    Foreign Policy published at the height of American exhaustion with the war in Vietnam promised to challenge the prevailing orthodoxy in Washington. Huntington & Manschel had essays from Galbraith and HolbrookeSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Swine Flu Vaccine Propaganda Makes Unwelcome 2011 ...
    Classic "Cabbage Patch" marketing strategy...if you had any doubts that the news networks aren't joined at the hip to the corporate interests, well here you are. Like a 24/7 advert campaign, but a campaign you don't have to pay for.Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �A ...
  • An Antidote to News from Arizona
    Thousands of Muslims showed up at Coptic Christmas eve mass services in churches around the country and at candle light vigils held outside : "human shields" against militant threats. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Strawberry Fields (Poisoned) Forever
    The state that supplies 90 percent of U.S. strawberries has approved a fumigant pesticide that chemists are hesitant to handle in the lab.Submitted by Di Anna K. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Why do we not mind swimming in a sea of randomness ...
    I think that evolution has brought about a protective mental layer that protects us from the basic unpredictability of human existence.This mental shield allows us to continue living happy and content even if a leopard can snap us at any minute.Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �| ...

Angry Indian News

  • Detained Iranian Woman's Health Reportedly Deterio ...
    Detained Iranian Woman's Health Reportedly Deteriorates - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty � 2011: "The physical condition of a supporter of the Mourning Mothers of Iran women's group is reported to... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Muslims protect churches
    Muslims protect churches: "Muslims offered themselves as 'human shields' on Friday to protect Coptic Christians celebrating their Christmas in Egypt just a week after a church bombing that killed... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Outreach gameplan | Harum
    Outreach gameplan | Harum: "MONA Sheikh Mahmud used to run her own business. Now she�s made a career out of her community work and added regional experience, writes SANTHA OORJITHAM.Everyoneknows at... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Gabrielle Giffords' Arizona shooting prompts resig ...
    Gabrielle Giffords' Arizona shooting prompts resignations: "A nasty battle between factions of Legislative District 20 Republicans and fears that it could turn violent in the wake of what happened in... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Wal-Mart Earns Support of Wild-Eyed Anti-Mosque Ze ...
    Wal-Mart Earns Support of Wild-Eyed Anti-Mosque Zealot: "Pamela Geller, the bored white lady who dedicated her time to haranguing against the 'Ground Zero Mosque,' is now calling on her fellow oafs... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

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 ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • BREAKING NEWS: Arizona shooter of Gabrielle Giffor ...
    The young gunman who shot and killed six people, and left Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition, appears to have borne a grudge against Giffords after meeting her in 2007 at the age of 19. According to reports, former...
  • New study says CO2 rise a result of warmer tempera ...
    A new peer reviewed study supports another contention I raised in Air Con: that CO2 increase follows temperature increase, and that there appears to be no correlation between fossil fuel emissions and temperature. The paper is available in full in...
  • RIP Chris Carter, Investigate columnist
    It's an odd thing, finding out on the radio news that your magazine's longest serving opinion columnist has passed away. What turns out to be his last column only hit the newsstands yesterday in the latest Investigate magazine: Chris Carter...
  • Climate scientists go feral, begin wearing cammo g ...
    Utah survivalists infiltrate climate science community. Whodathunkit?: It might surprise, and hopefully disturb you, to hear that in my short time at AGU, I discovered four scientists who are already creating some form of survival retreat for their family, and...
  • Admission: climate science IS stalking horse for g ...
    Slate magazine calls it: For 20 years, evidence about global warming has been directly and explicitly linked to a set of policy responses demanding international governance regimes, large-scale social engineering, and the redistribution of wealth. These are the sort of...

Mondoweiss

  • Overnight traumas
    How fast everything happens in Gaza. Everything goes very well; however, everything could turn upside down overnight. How hard when you are put in a position where you cannot expect how the next second of your life would look like-- and if you expected something, you would probably find the very ...
  • Another name is registered in Gaza
    I am trying to come up with something to say about the body I saw yesterday in the morgue at Kamal Adwan hospital. That body had belonged to an old man, 65 years old, who was shot through the neck by an Israeli sniper from 300 meters away while he was tying up his donkey [...]
  • Solidarity in Lyd: ‘We strongly disbelieve t ...
    (Photo:� Alex Kane) Lyd, Israel�For the past year and a half, Israelis, Palestinians and international activists have held weekly demonstrations in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, protesting against the evictions of Palestinian families there and the move by settlers to take ove ...
  • Congressman Peter King suggests that Muslims are n ...
    Lee Fang at ThinkProgress. Note that even the Conservative Political Action Conference has frozen out King's interviewer, Frank Gaffney, for being a "crazy bigot." Joining anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist Frank Gaffney on Gaffney’s radio program last week, King doubled down on his promise to launc ...
  • Amnesty calls Abdallah Abu Rahma ‘prisoner o ...
    Amnesty International has taken a significant step and upgraded the status of Abdallah Abu Rahma and condemned the Israeli military court: Detained since December 2009, Abdallah Abu Rahma, a school teacher, was supposed to be released on 18 November 2010, but has been kept in detention at the m ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: GlaxosmithKline Implicated In Systemic Clinic ...
    ‘A psychiatrist on the payroll of GlaxoSmithKline has been sentenced to 13 months in prison after pleading guilty to committing research fraud in clinical trials for antidepressant Paxil. Palazzo enrolled children who did not actually suffer from major depressive or obsessive compulsive disorder ...
  • VRM: California Institutes Mandatory DTaP Vaccinat ...
    âFor the 2011â12 school year only, children entering 7thâ12th grade will need proof of a DTaP (Diphtheria,Tetanus & Pertussis) shot before starting school. For 2012-13 and beyond, only students entering 7th grade will need proof of a Tdap shot.â California Depât of Public Health ‘The law will ap ...
  • VRM: Health Matters Part 2
    BISPHENAL A PLASTIC is deadly. It leaks a synthetic hormone which mimics Estrogene & is present in most common store-bought products, also found in the lining of all soup cans. Long term effects include Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Androgeny. It should be noted that in the original tests th ...
  • VRM: Health Matters Part 1
    A compromised immune system is more susceptible to infection. Some areas of concern - Anyone with Hyper/Hypothyroidism needs to redouble their efforts to rapidly cleanse the system. The Thyroid Gland is key to overall health. Produces T3 & T4 hormones (Iodine Atoms). Iodine helps regulate metabol ...
  • VRM: The Dark Side of The Vitamin K Shot
    Apart from the trauma inflicted on a newborn of getting the shot, the amount of Vitamin K injected into newborns is 20,000 times the needed dose. The injection also contains a preservative, Benzyl alcohol, that can be especially toxic for your babyâs delicate, young immune system. A parent has to k ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • For My Thai Friends
    04 January 2011 Was walking by the water.� There were thousands of birds and so I wanted to send this snapshot back to Thailand.� Thai people are welcome in Florida!� Y'all get over here. Michael {loadposition user8}
  • Winter Haven Native's War Dispatches Have Worldwid ...
    Please click here to view entire article in the Lakeland Ledger. {loadposition user8}
  • The Jungle Twins
    01 January 2011 In October 2010, a rare set of elephant twins was born in Thailand, leading to vibrant media interest.� The birth was a happy surprise partly because it had been the second set of twins born in Thailand in 2010.� Many Thais consider this auspicious, and two sets of twins in one ye ...
  • Hostages Press Release
    www.thethayerhotel.com/ Please Click here to view the entire story. {loadposition user8}
  • Shooting Star
    16 December 2010Six years ago this week, I was packing for my first trip to Iraq.� Been a long road. Earlier this week, the annual Geminids meteor shower was a beautiful sight to behold.� Using 4 cameras, I made about 3,600 photos over the Andaman Sea.�� Due to computer issues, I�ve been able to re ...

The Killing Train

  • I am not a gadget
    Jaron Lanier, author of "You are not a gadget", is very well-informed about what he is writing about, which is some of the social consequences of the internet, and some of the implicit ideologies that are built into the internet as we are living with it today. Lanier was one of the early minds behin ...
  • Raj Patel's "Value of Nothing"
    For various reasons I found myself with several hours on public transit and with Raj Patel's fine book "The Value of Nothing" in hand. I really liked a few things about it. First, it's a very readable summary of a lot of economic theories (and ideologies) that guide policies today. For a more mathem ...
  • A short video on Toronto Star's recent G20 coverag ...
    Three minutes on technology and protests, focusing on the Toronto Star's recent G20 coverage, especially Rosie DiManno's articles.
  • Thoughts on Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows"
    After a couple of recommendations from a couple of different directions, I read Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows: What the internet is doing to our brains". It combines neuroplasticity research (which I read about in Norman Doidge's "The Brain that Changes Itself") with ideas about a literary, print-ba ...
  • "Santa" Ford just stole 1000 jobs from the future
    Yesterday's headlines in Toronto newspapers were about how Rob Ford and City Council repealed the $60 vehicle registration tax. The Toronto Sun went as far as painting a beard on a picture of Ford, calling him Santa, and referring to the tax repeal as a christmas gift to Toronto. Another advance aga ...

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 ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • China fails to deliver on human rights promises: H ...
    [JURIST] China has failed to achieve the goals it set out in its first national human rights plan, Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] declared in a report [text] released on Tuesday. In its assessment of the government's National Human Rights Action Plan of China (NHRAP) [text], HRW decried ...
  • Supreme Court denies tax exemption for medical res ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] on Tuesday ruled [opinion, PDF] 8-0 in Mayo Foundation for Medical Research v. United States [SCOTUSblog backgrounder] that medical residents are not classified as students for the purpose of federal tax exemption. The Mayo Foundation for Medical Educ ...
  • New York high court dismisses case against bond in ...
    [JURIST] The New York Court of Appeals [official website] on Tuesday dismissed [opinion] a lawsuit against bond insurance company MBIA [corporate website] alleging breach of contract brought by several of the world's largest financial institutions. The lawsuit challenged the break-up of MBIA into tw ...
  • Rights group asks court to resume consideration of ...
    [JURIST] The Log Cabin Republicans [advocacy website] on Monday urged the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals [official website] to resume proceedings in their lawsuit against the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) policy [10 USC § 654 text; JURIST news archive]. The advocacy group filed a resp ...
  • US trial begins for anti-Castro militant
    [JURIST] The trial [court materials] of anti-Castro Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] began Monday on charges of lying to federal immigration officials that could carry a sentence of up to 60 years in prison. He is charged [Miami Herald report] before the Distric ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • After the Arizona Murders, Politics As Usual
    I thought the shootings in Arizona might cause a brief moment of unity. Twenty shot; six dead, including a little girl; an attempted political assassination, an attack on democracy itself. Was I naive to think that the instant reaction might be an uncomplicated desire to unite--in sympathy for the ...
  • Suggestions on 'Civility'
    I asked last night for suggestions on what, exactly, it would mean to have a more "civil" tone of political discourse. We all have heard that we're supposed to nicer to one another. But how  would know we were doing so? The reader who originally asked the question suggested, "Never speak with the in ...
  • Where Does Obama Go Next?
    In a new column for the FT I discuss the Daley and Sperling appointments and what they might say about Obama's direction. Mr Obama and his party have come to a critical moment. If the top White House appointments the president announced last week were not calculated affronts to progressive Democrats ...
  • How to Protect Members of Congress
    On Wednesday, the FBI and the U.S. Capitol Police will brief members of Congress on basic security precautions they can take when they're interacting with constituents. Also on the agenda: an explanation of how Capitol Police officers conduct threat assessments. What the members are likely to hear m ...
  • Loughner Family: 'We Don't Understand Why This Hap ...
    Randy and Amy Loughner have released a statement about the carnage allegedly wrought by their son, Jared Lee Loughner. The text: "This is a very difficult time for us. We ask that the media to respect our privacy. There are no words that can possibly express how we feel. We wish that there were so ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Loughner: In Dreams Begin Murders
    Delmore Schwartz‘s most famous short story is entitled In Dreams Begin Responsibilities.  It is about a young man who dreams he is in a movie theater watching a movie which turns out to portray his parent’s courtship.  As he watches it, he worries that his parents may not actually end up marrying ...
  • Shabak Humiliates Female Arab Journalists at Netan ...
    The Shabak demanded that three female journalists from Al Jazeera TV remove their bras before allowing them to enter an annual toast hosted by Bibi Netanyahu for foreign journalists.  When they refused they were ejected from the event.  Turkish journalists also claimed they were humiliated during ...
  • Links for 2010-03-21 [Digg]
    Happy Passover: Settlers, Immigrants, and Jewish Values "You shall not oppress the stranger because you know the soul of the stranger for you yourselves were immigrants in the land of Egypt (Exodus 23:9)"
  • Amnon Dankner: ‘I’m Ashamed of Being Israeli’
    Amnon Danker, former editor of one of Israel’s most popular dailies, Maariv, has written a scathing essay excoriating Israel and the current political situation there.  The terms he uses are savage and unsparing.  It’s rare for such mainstream cultural and media figures to speak in such unconditio ...
  • Iran’s Fake Israeli Spy Ring
    Today, Iran paraded an Iranian alleged Mossad spy before a national TV audience.  The man, who wasn’t named, made his show confession telling the audience how he planted a bomb that killed an Iranian scientist in Teheran last year.  It was all so tedious, predictable and a sham.  The poor shlub m ...

Ode Magazine

  • Words that heal
    The psychological upside of writing it all down. Photo: Corbis Photography Has your physician ever asked you to write about the worst day of your life? Probably not. Yet the Journal of the American Medical Association recently published a clinical study showing that writi ...
  • The usefulness of enemies
    Two stories about what worthy opponents can teach us. The enemy without My reader Murali, from India, tells the story of a girl who decided to climb a mountain to visit her grandmother. It was pouring rain and a cold wind was blowing. Thunder rolled at each second. When she ...
  • A peace song for women and those who love them
    By: PeaceCorso Dear one, if you are a woman or you know one, please share these stunning words with her. The Song of the Five Sisters by Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki You are my sister, your skin black as night. A princess of the Royal blood in the arms o ...
  • Peace is possible
    By: PeaceCorso Peace is possible. Do you believe this? Really believe it. Is peace possible in your reality? I surely do. Do I always see it? Do I always be it? No, unfortunately. But I do always believe in it. Rev. Gregory Toole, a Science ...
  • How baskets help sustain hope in Darfur
    By: SusanBLT As the genocide in Darfur (Sudan) enters its eighth year, a group of displaced women in North Darfur is not only surviving but charting a path to empowerment. At the Women’s Center in Kassab IDP (internally displaced persons) camp, success ...

OpEd News

  • Roots of Arizona's Violence
    Blame America's culture of violence.
  • Exclusive Interview With Giffords' Rabbi Debunks R ...
    An interview discussing the Loughner family's connection to Synagogues, between Rob Kall and Gabrielle Giffords' rabbi
  • The Power of Words
    now the very people who have used words to ridicule, distort, misguide, discredit, and defame -- the very people who have openly and gleefully demonized others, spoken freely about assassination as a political tool, even attacked the children of this country's public servants and suggested that they ...
  • Hi, Joe!
    If a serious inquiry committee investigates the financing of the extreme right, it will discover that much of it comes straight from the pocket of the American taxpayer. That is one of the great scandals: the US government is financing many of the settlements. Mr. Binyamin Netanyahu, sir, have you n ...
  • The Tucson Tragedy
    The Tucson tragedy has many implications for the U.S. There will be much discussion about the reasons for this massacre, but nothing will change, unless...

Switchboard

  • Sustainable Oakland
      Next month, NRDC’s sustainable communities team will be having a strategic planning retreat in Oakland, California.  Oakland presents some logistical advantages for such a meeting, including its proximity to our office across the bay in San Francisco, saving travel and hotel expens ...
  • A Reasonable Opportunity to Encourage Agricultural ...
    My recent posts outlining a recommended water agenda for Governor Brown, included several recommendations to promote water use efficiency in the agricultural sector.  A new report prepared by the new Delta Watermaster outlines very similar opportunities. The Delta Watermaster was crea ...
  • Frances Beinecke discusses Gulf spill Commission's ...
    On Public Radio International’s Living On Earth, Frances Beinecke discussed the findings released today by the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, on which she served… In Politico and Times-Picayune articles about the oil commission’s report ...
  • Killing Jobs or Growing Jobs?
    Steven Pearlstein point out in his Washington Post column that the words “job-killing” are used inappropriately in most political contexts. He argues that these words “reflect[] the sort of economic fundamentalism better suited to Afghan politics than American. Rather than contributing ...
  • Frances Beinecke on commission's recommendations; ...
    Frances Beinecke spoke to NPR in her capacity as a member of the President’s Oil Spill Panel, discussing the Commission’s recommendations for new ways of regulating the industry in order to avoid future oil spill disasters… A Wall Street Journal article quoted Franz Matzner on how the ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Random Jetlag Blogging
    I arrived back on the island where I am currently based “yesterday” morning (January 11).  I slept seven hours “last night”, awaking at 11pm (GMT).  I lecture in two hours or so.  I’m sure it will go well indeed, once I work out just where and when I am. While the social science on a relationship ...
  • The Un-American Antonin Scalia
    Via Ian Millhiser, I am shocked and appalled by this un-American passage in Antonin Scalia’s solo dissent today: The canon against superfluity is not a canon against verbosity. When a thought could have been expressed more concisely, one does not always have to cast about for some additional meanin ...
  • Our Incarceral State
    Vesla Weaver and Amy Lerman have published a study in the American Political Science Review on the relationship between contact with the US criminal justice system and disaffection from US government and politics. They find that even after controlling for other important factors, contact with the cr ...
  • If You Call That “Success”
    Sara Mead and Tom Scocca make a lot of good points about Amy Chua’s dislikable, widely-discussed piece on “Chinese mothers.”    Aside from the stereotyping and assertions-without-evidence, what strikes me most is Chua’s conception of “success.”   It’s not only, as Scocca says, that Chua is impli ...
  • “Let’s At Least Make Troubled People E ...
    Shorter Jon Stewart: A) It’s not at all clear that political vitriol caused the Giffordsâ shooting. B) Acknowledging that doesnât mean political vitriol isnât a problem in this country. C) We miss a lot by fixating on how to explain the crazy guyâs actions. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – T ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Building Concepts for Clarity
    Todd Mihevc has a knack for finding the right tools for the job, but he’s no handyman for hire. For 25 years, Mihevc, an Assistant Research Hydrogeologist at DRI, has been instrumental in developing equipment that surveys, studies, and samples water systems in Nevada. His latest research concerns th ...
  • Top Cited Article in the Journal of Human Evolutio ...
    Dr. Glenn Berger is lead author in top-cited article in Journal of Human Evolution. The article "Luminescence chronology of cave sediments at the Atapuerca paleoanthropological site, Spain" was the top-cited article published in the Journal of Human Evolution for the period of 2008 to 2010.
  • DRI Researcher Published in Nature Geoscience
    The atmosphere over the Dead Sea, researchers have found, is laden with oxidized mercury. Some of the highest levels of oxidized mercury ever observed outside the polar regions exist there.
  • Taking Your Home’s Energy Temperature
    An article authored by DRI Associate Research Professor Emeritus Charles “Fred “Rogers, Ph.D., outlines the best practices for homeowners who are looking to save money on their home heating and cooling bills.
  • DRI Researcher Earns National Science Foundation M ...
    DRI Research Professor Hans Moosmüller, Ph.D. and colleagues received $649,801 from the National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program to develop a Photo-Acoustic Light Absorption and Albedo Spectrometer (PALAAS) for the characterization of aerosol radiative forcing in the ...

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Waterdog Training January 10th 2011
    Waterdogs Training Monday, January 10th, 2011 7:00-9:00pm Jersey Shore Middle School Library Registration Fee $10 Additional $20 if you would like a TDS Meter Registration is due by January 3rd, 2011 Please make checks payable to: LCCD Lycoming County Conservation District 542 County Farm Road, Suit ...
  • Pittsburgh Sets Model to Reject Corporate-Imposed ...
    November 30, 2010 By S.B. Thompson Chambersburg, PA – Edited for length * The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) is actively involved in many issues to help prevent corporations from raping America’s land and resources, including speaking out against uranium mining and mountaintop re ...
  • Investigating the US Gas Boom
    I know many of you are becoming very aware of the natural gas boom happening in the Mid Atlantic area. This video covers some old ground but it also discusses some very current issues and is a great intro for anyone who is trying to learn about the problems with the fracking process. http://www.thee ...
  • Under the Influence of Fracking?
    In addition to the environmental and health threats posed by gas drilling, driving on PA roadways is also becoming more dangerous.  The Pennsylvania State Police and the Department of Environmental Protection announced that during an October three-day joint safety enforcement operation, three out of ...
  • Speaking Out on Water Issues
    Tiadaghton Audubon Society is pleased and privileged to have Sean Saville, National Field Director of the National Audubon Society speak on the Gulf Oil Spill at our annual meeting on Wednesday November 17 at 7:30PM in Mansfield Pa at the Holy Child Church, 242 South Main St. He has extensive and in ...

News Blaze

  • 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.

environment 360

  • Study Evaluates Markets for High-Speed Rail System ...
    A new study identifies the high-speed rail corridors in the U.S. with the greatest potential to attract ridership in the nation’s so-called “megaregions.” The study by the group America 2050 scores 7,870 potential rail America 2050High-speed rail in the U.S.: Emerging Megaregions corridors u ...
  • Bioenergy Could Meet 20 Percent of Global Energy N ...
    Energy produced from plants and trees could meet as much as 20 percent of the planet’s growing energy demand by 2050, including half of that production from biomass plantations alone, according to a new study. But that increased reliance on crops would require a large expansion of agricultural land ...
  • Photography as a Conservation Tool
    In a new video documentary, some of the world’s foremost conservation photographers discuss the critical role photography plays in calling attention to threats faced by the natural world and in affecting global change. In their own words — and through the images of more than 40 photographers — these ...
  • Calculating the True Cost Of Global Climate Change ...
    Researchers disagree about what the economic costs of climate change will be over the coming decades. But the answer to that question is fundamental in deciding how urgent it is to take action to reduce emissions. BY JOHN CAREY
  • Epic Turtle Migration Is Revealed Through Satellit ...
    A five-year tracking study provides new insights into the cross-Atlantic migrations of the giant leatherback turtle. Using sophisticated satellites to track 25 female turtles, researchers at the University of Exeter’s Centre for Ecology and Conservation identified three clear migration routes, inclu ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Egypt Threatens Removal of Ancient Central Park Ob ...
    Since 1881, the obelisk known as Cleopatra’s Needle has stood in New York’s Central Park, but a letter from Dr. Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, indicates that this may change if the monument is not taken better care of. "Recent photographs that I have receiv ...
  • Military Testing Behind Mass Bird and Fish Deaths?
    It's been said that Mankind will destroy itself. Unfortunately, during the past 100 years the human race has worked hard to make this prediction come true. Nuclear arsenals can destroy Mankind many times over. Alien biological weapons exist that can annihilate all humanity. Toxins are available that ...
  • Too much fluoride in the water, U.S. now says
    “Anybody who was anti-fluoride was considered crazy. It’s amazing that people have been so convinced that this is an okay thing to do.” The Environmental Protection Agency released two reviews of research on fluoride Friday. One of the studies found that prolonged, high intake of fluoride can increa ...
  • 5200 Pentagon Employees PURCHASED Child Pornograph ...
    100's of contractors and private employee's of the U.S. Government have purchased child pornography and have neither been prosecuted or even investigated. Yes, you heard correctly, Child Pornography. Project Flicker had discovered the activities in Child Pornography of as many as 5200 people, many o ...
  • Explaining the Acts of Madmen...
    Watch this video where the director of the Southern Poverty Law Center blames the Giffords shooting on "right wing political beliefs:" Basically, they ignore the real reason that Jared Loughner became violent (i.e. mental illness), and blame it all on his political views. This is simply irresponsibl ...

Russia Today

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

  • Tau Zero and Breakthrough Spaceship Propulsion
    In the mainstream, propulsion science does not recognize UFO propulsion technology per se, (Bob Bigelow not withstanding), but there are several theories being bandied about and while interstellar travel just might occur before we become a Kardashev Level One Civilization in around two hundred years ...
  • Inexplicata: Huge UFO in Peru
    On January 4th, 2011 a huge “mothership” UFO was seen hovering above Barrios Altos in Peru. ] Residents of Barrios Altos claim having witnessed what could well be the first UFO sighting of 2011. With the video in hand, one expert has already attested to the authenticity of the homemade recording. T ...
  • Binnall of America: Dr. Beachcoming
    Are you interested in the oddities of history? Do you know about the NASA sandwich and the extinct kings of the Isle of Man? Then you want to listen to this latest edition of Binnall of America.com as Tim interviews the mysterious Dr. Beachcoming (not his real name) and discuss the above items and m ...
  • Tor.com: Halo, Cryptum by Greg Bear
    Greg Bear was one of my favorite authors during the 1990s. His books Queen of Angels, Slant, The Forge of God and Moving Mars are some of my all time favorites. Not to mention Eon and Eternity, the stories about The Way and The Thistledown, brought about many a re-read during particularly boring eve ...
  • Tectonic Movement on Mars?
    Tectonic plate movement, which is the main source of Earth’s geologic energy, earthquakes and volcanoes, has been discovered on Mars. Mars? When one looks at the surface of that planet, evidence of any geologic activity is hard to find. But the largest dead volcano in the Solar System is Olympus Mon ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • Illinois Income Tax Raised 66 Percent
    “With only hours left before new state lawmakers were to take over, Illinoisâs State Legislature narrowly approved early on Wednesday an increase of about 66 percent in the stateâs income tax rate.” (New York Times) Thereâll be an economic miracle in Illinois any day now. FEE Timely Classic “Higher ...
  • Meth Control Measure Backfires
    “Electronic systems that track sales of the cold medicine used to make methamphetamine have failed to curb the drug trade and instead created a vast, highly lucrative market for profiteers to buy over-the-counter pills and sell them to meth producers at a huge markup. An Associated Press review of f ...
  • Sue the Government
    If your life is not perfect, sue the government, since everyone knows that it can and should bring perfection to society.
  • Obama, Sarkozy Discuss Dollar
    “Shying away from his earlier calls for the dollar’s global dominance to be mitigated, French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked a bit of a political tightrope Monday, recognizing the U.S. dollar as âthe world’s No. 1 currencyâ in a meeting with President Obama at the White House.” (Washington Times) ...
  • Gun-Control Talk Heard Again
    “[T]wo lawmakers have said they’ll push for tougher gun controls, including stricter limits on high-capacity ammunition magazines.” (Washington Times) As though people bent on crime will obey gun laws. FEE Timely Classic “Just Dial 911? The Myth of Police Protection” by Richard W. Stevens

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Visual narratives: Empirical data
    From a research study by two scholars at Stanford: In this paper, we investigate the design of narrative visualizations and identify techniques for telling stories with data graphics. We take an empirical approach, analyzing visualizations from online journalism, blogs, instructional videos, and vi ...
  • Teaching HTML and CSS to journalism students
    I’ve been looking at the open-source course materials for Web Design 1, from the WaSP InterACT curriculum project. I think these materials can easily be adapted for use in a journalism curriculum. The idea is to acquaint our students with the building blocks of the Web they use every day. For stude ...
  • A stupid way to handle online video
    Great post from Jerry Lazar, posted Sunday: … a lot of newspapers — perhaps cowed by their own clueless attorneys — similarly do not allow their videos to appear anywhere but on their own Websites, essentially guaranteeing that nobody outside their own geographic area will stumble upon it. This ...
  • Journalists’ Toolkit: My other blog
    Lately I have been spending a lot of time building an online course for our journalism students at the University of Florida. I can’t offer the course to the public because it’s in the university’s distance learning system and open only to enrolled students. However, I have been updating and postin ...
  • Teaching online with WordPress.com
    In the fall semester of 2010, I taught a graduate course called New Media and a Democratic Society using a WordPress.com blog as both syllabus and the means of delivering all assignments. The class did meet face to face once a week for presentations and discussions, but otherwise, everything about t ...

Facing South

  • Do violent words cause violence? Lessons from the ...
    The tragic Arizona shootings that left six dead and others, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) critically wounded, have sparked debate over an important question: What's the connection between violent political rhetoric and real, deadly violence? It's not a new debate, especially in the Sou ...
  • Bill would ban high-capacity ammo used in Arizona ...
    A member of Congress has promised to introduce legislation as soon as this week that would ban the sort of high-capacity ammunition clip that turned Saturday's attempted political assassination in Arizona into a bloodbath that left six dead, 14 wounded and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) fighting ...
  • Will Duke-Progress merger advance nuclear goals?
    Two North Carolina-based electric utilities plan to merge, creating a company that will surpass the Southern Co. as the nation's largest power provider. Duke Energy of Charlotte intends to buy Progress Energy of Raleigh in a $13.7 billion all-stock deal. The new company -- which would ha ...
  • Emergency human rights petition seeks to halt depo ...
    Civil and human rights advocates filed an emergency petition [pdf] this week with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in an effort to halt the imminent deportation of hundreds of Haitian nationals by the U.S. government, calling the move a "death sentence." The petition was subm ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The gun lobby's deadly force
    Of the 10 U.S. gun dealers that sold the most firearms traced to crimes over the past four years, number in the South: 5 Of the 10 states with the most crime guns exported per 100,000 inhabitants, number in the South: 7* In the past four years, numbers of weapons from Mexico's drug wars traced ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • Ivory Coast's Election Quagmire
    In resolving Ivory Coast's disputed election runoff, recognizing the rightful president is merely the first step in edifying a governance model that evenly represents the country's diverse and divided population.
  • U.S. Dual-Track Policy in Somalia
    In a country with layers of complexity, clan warfare and a broken state, the Obama administration is taking an appropriately complex approach to stabilizing Somalia, one that may or may not bear fruit.
  • Preventing Maternal Deaths in West Africa
    Dr. Fredanna M'Cormack and her Bele Uman Project are working in Sierra Leone to save the lives of pregnant mothers and their babies.
  • Interview with Kumi Naidoo
    The Greenpeace executive director talks about connections between the environment, poverty, peace, and how the interconnectedness of these issues can drive civil society.
  • Zimbabweans Still Suffering
    On a daily basis, the people of Zimbabwe face starvation, poverty, corruption and oppression, and their government is highly unlikely to bail them out anytime soon.

Canadian Encyclopedia

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • Last minute Recycling at Christmas links
    Since sharing my favourite upcycled Christmas present ideas and recycled Christmas decoration suggestions, I’ve spotted another few awesome things that I thought I should mention in case you’ve got a few spare hours this afternoon and want to reduce, reuse and recycle! I love, love, love using the m ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle electric toothbrushes?
    We’ve had an email from Georgina: Where can i recycle electric toothbrushes? What about the replaced brushes? Electric toothbrushes are covered under Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations so should be recycled in designated WEEE bins at tips etc. The replacement heads almost c ...
  • Recycle This in 2010 – my favourite stories
    So here we are at the end of another year – and it’s been a great one for Recycle This. We’ve had more than 1,000,000 unique visitors over the year: about 300,000 from the UK, 350,000 from the US and the rest from around the world – including 12 people from Papua New Guinea, 5 [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle plastic Smint boxes?
    We’ve had an email from (not my) John: What can be done with Smint boxes? Anything? Smint packets are sealed plastic dispensers, which according to the Smint website can’t be opened and refilled to “assure the maximum hygiene for our product”. That makes them infinitely less easy to reuse as, say, T ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle Strepsils “handy ...
    Hey team. Apologies for the lack of a post on Friday – I was ill with my second cold of 2011 (which, given it was only the 7th of Jan, I thought was pretty good/bad going. I’m in the constant coughing stage now, such fun.) I spent the whole day in bed wishing I could [...]

Mondoweiss

  • Overnight traumas
    How fast everything happens in Gaza. Everything goes very well; however, everything could turn upside down overnight. How hard when you are put in a position where you cannot expect how the next second of your life would look like-- and if you expected something, you would probably find the very ...
  • Another name is registered in Gaza
    I am trying to come up with something to say about the body I saw yesterday in the morgue at Kamal Adwan hospital. That body had belonged to an old man, 65 years old, who was shot through the neck by an Israeli sniper from 300 meters away while he was tying up his donkey [...]
  • Solidarity in Lyd: ‘We strongly disbelieve t ...
    (Photo:� Alex Kane) Lyd, Israel�For the past year and a half, Israelis, Palestinians and international activists have held weekly demonstrations in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, protesting against the evictions of Palestinian families there and the move by settlers to take ove ...
  • Congressman Peter King suggests that Muslims are n ...
    Lee Fang at ThinkProgress. Note that even the Conservative Political Action Conference has frozen out King's interviewer, Frank Gaffney, for being a "crazy bigot." Joining anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist Frank Gaffney on Gaffney’s radio program last week, King doubled down on his promise to launc ...
  • Amnesty calls Abdallah Abu Rahma ‘prisoner o ...
    Amnesty International has taken a significant step and upgraded the status of Abdallah Abu Rahma and condemned the Israeli military court: Detained since December 2009, Abdallah Abu Rahma, a school teacher, was supposed to be released on 18 November 2010, but has been kept in detention at the m ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Fox ‘rangefinder’ sense expands the magnetic menag ...
    The research team that discovered magnetic cows – visible from space, no less – has now determined that foxes also appear to possess an internal compass. Vulpes vulpes may even be using their ‘magneto-reception’ as a rangefinder to assist their hunting. Foxes often utilise a hunting behaviour kno ...
  • Universe says "Cheese" for biggest ever astro-phot ...
    Framing a group shot can be difficult. Capturing half a billion stars and galaxies in one picture is -- well -- overwhelming. Yet the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), which has taken images of the night sky using a dedicated 2.5-m optical telescope at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico ...
  • Oil spill commission calls for stronger science ro ...
    In its final report, which was released today, the presidential commission investigating the Gulf Oil Spill called for scientists to play a more important role in the federal government's decisions about where to allow offshore oil production and also in how the government responds to spills. At ...
  • Contaminated animal feed spreads
    Animal feed produced in Germany that was contaminated with dioxins - toxic chemicals produced as a by-product of industrial processes – have been imported to France and Denmark, according to news reports. German authorities closed nearly 5000 farms and culled thousands of chickens across the cou ...
  • Haiti hopes for rebirth one year after devastating ...
    One year after Haiti’s devastating earthquake, Nature correspondent David Cyranoski is in Port-au-Prince to assess the recovery effort. Haitian media speak of three disasters in 2010. The first was the 12 January earthquake, which took more than 230,000 lives. This was followed by a cholera outbr ...

new geography

  • Here Comes Barack Cameron?
    President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair were so �like-minded,� according to one Los Angeles Times writer, that they brought new meaning to the U.S. and England�s �special relationship.� Blair�s later embrace of George W. Bush, however, was less satisfying, leading to widespread ...
  • The Dispersing of Urbanism
    For more than a century, people have been moving by the millions to larger urban areas from smaller urban areas and rural areas. Within the last five years, the share of the world population living in rural areas has dropped below one-half for the first time. The migration to the larger urban areas ...
  • Is China About to Decentralize?
    More than a car, plane or train tick, the “Hukou” (the residential permit system) is the key to mobility in China. I can still remember what my junior high English teacher said to my classmates and I, “I really worry about you guys; if you don’t study hard, not only will you not be able to get a jo ...
  • Fuzzy Thinking by Famous Economists
    Edward L. Glaeser, in an end-of-year piece for the New York Times, claims that generous housing supply is the reason that Texas’s economy is performing so well. As he says in his final paragraph: “Housing regulations, more than those that bind standard businesses, explain the Sun Belt’s population ...
  • The Heartland Rises
    The change in congressional power this week is more than an ideological shift. It ushers in a revival in the political influence of the nation’s heartland, as well as the South. This contrasts dramatically with the last Congress. Virtually its entire leadership — from former House Speaker Nancy Pel ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • BMW Explodes in Arlington
    Two exploding BMWs in two days, within about six miles of each other… Move along, citizen, nothing to see here? Perhaps. That’s why we have the Coincidence category. See: Ashley W. Turton: Energy Lobbyist, Wife of Key White House Aide, Dies in Fire Via: ARLNow: A white BMW exploded around 8:15 a.m. ...
  • Massacre of Civilians in Tunisia
    Via: AFP: Anger over a crackdown on protesters in Tunisia grew Tuesday as a union official said 50 were killed in three days of unrest while artists and hospital staff joined demonstrations. Locals reported looting in the town of Kasserine overnight and said demonstrators were fired upon from roofto ...
  • The Fed’s QE2 Traders Are Buying Hundreds of ...
    Via: New York Times: Deep inside the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the $600 billion man is fast at work. In a spare, government-issue office in Lower Manhattan, behind a bank of cubicles and a scruffy copy machine, Josh Frost and a band of market specialists are making the Fed’s ultimate Wall St ...
  • Ashley W. Turton: Energy Lobbyist, Wife of Key Whi ...
    Via: Washington Post: The wife of a key White House aide was found dead early Monday in a sport-utility vehicle that was heavily damaged by fire in the garage of the couple’s Capitol Hill home, sources familiar with the incident said. The cause of her death is uncertain. Ashley W. Turton, 37, an ene ...
  • Australia: Severe Flooding Continues
    Via: BBC: Flash floods have hit Queensland, killing at least four people with several more missing, as heavy rains continue to pound the Australian state. A massive deluge overwhelmed Toowoomba, a city west of the state capital Brisbane, without warning. Cars were swept away by the torrent of water. ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • Desertification Threatens One Billion (Clean Techi ...
    Read at : http://blog.cleantechies.com/2011/01/11/desertification-threatens-one-billion/ January 11th, 2011 by Celsias On Thursday, December 16, 2010, the United Nations launched its Decade for Deserts and the Fight Against Desertification (UNDDD). The initiative is retroactive, running from January ...
  • Evergreen agriculture: growing crops beneath trees ...
    Read at : http://spore.cta.int/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&lang=en&id=1522&catid=23 Growing crops under canopy DENNIS GARRITY Dr Dennis Garrity, an agronomist whose career has focused on developing small-scale farming systems in the tropics, is Director-General of the World Agroforestry C ...
  • Remote sensing and information delivery through SM ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencealert.com.au/features/20110701-21718.html New mail for irrigators By Robin Taylor The need to use limited water supplies efficiently, and the low uptake of existing tools, prompted Dr John Hornbuckle and his colleagues at CSIRO Land and Water to combine … Continue reading ...
  • Water as one of the four critical environmental pr ...
    Read at : http://www.oecd.org/document/47/0,3746,en_2649_37465_36146415_1_1_1_37465,00.html The Water Challenge: OECD’s Response The OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030 has identified water as one of the four critical environmental priorities for the coming two decades. On current trends, 47% of the ...
  • farmlandgrab.org goes trilingual (GRAIN)
    Read at : http://www.grain.org/nfg/?id=761 New from GRAIN 11 January 2011 GRAIN is pleased to announce that, starting today, the specialised farmlandgrab.org website is fully trilingual. People who speak French or Spanish can now navigate the site in either language and … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

  • Quarter-Century After Bhopal, a Deadly Chemical&#8 ...
    The last major U.S. producer of the chemical that killed thousands in Bhopal, India, 26 years ago – and was nearly released in a 2008 explosion in West Virginia – is ceasing production of the compound.
  • BP Spill Report Underscores Government Complacency
    A presidentially-appointed commission today called for major changes in offshore oil drilling and described the Deepwater Horizon spill as “almost the inevitable result of years of industry and government complacency and lack of attention to safety.” Some conclusions echo the Center for Public Integ ...
  • Mining Groups Seek to Delay SEC’s Conflict M ...
    Powerful players in the international mining industry are asking for more time to respond to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s controversial proposal to require that companies disclose their use of so-called “conflict minerals” extracted from countries plagued by violence or human rights abus ...
  • The Center’s Impact in 2010
    The true value of an investigative story is not measured in Web hits, media partners or awards – it’s whether our reports help improve the world. By that yardstick, the Center for Public Integrity’s work showed clear impact in 2010:
  • Health Care Fraud Cases Drop Despite Bigger Budget
    The official line at the Department of Justice is that investigators are battling Medicare and Medicaid fraud like never before. But the most recent data on the agency’s activities show that its efforts and ballooning budget have actually produced fewer results.

backofthebook.ca

  • The Internet is a Fairy Godmother in Disguise
    by Rachel Krueger   The internet is not all boobs and trolls.  I mean, it’s mostly boobs and trolls.  If you were to answer either ‘boobs’ or ‘trolls’ for every question in an Identify This Internet Thing Pop Quiz, you’d get a passing grade, which is better than usual for you.   But the ...
  • The Harper marriage and the Globe
    By Frank Moher While you were enjoying the festive season, a minor contretemps blew up and just as quickly away at The Globe and Mail. Both parties to the matter have been studiously decorous about it, but it deserves further scrutiny before disappearing entirely down the memory hole. On Dec. ...
  • In 2011, less tech is more
    By Mark Evans In 2011, less is going to be more . . . and that’s a good thing. It’s a decision that comes on the heels of a happily hectic 2010 in which my business surged ahead, and a number of other projects (including the mesh conference) consumed time. It was ...
  • Justin Bieber does his bit for the Canadian econom ...
    By Frank Moher My New Year's resolution for 2011 is to like Justin Bieber. I'm quite serious. My first reaction to the news that The Bieber caused a near-riot when he appeared at a Kitchener, Ont. mall on Boxing Day, there to buy some shades (because, after all, his future really is so ...
  • Battle of the Bigots
    A white supremacist group called The Council of Conservative Citizens is outraged that Marvel has cast Idris Elba as Heimdall in Thor, because he is foxy.  I mean, black.  They probably don’t appreciate that foxy black men exist in the world, but it is definitely the blackness that they are ...

Worldnews

  • Oil hovers above $91 amid US gasoline supply ...
    SINGAPORE - Oil prices hovered above $91 a barrel Wednesday in Asia after a report showed U.S. gasoline supplies rose more than expected, suggesting demand may have slowed. Benchmark oil for February delivery rose 4 cents to $91.15 a barrel late afternoon Singapore time in electronic trading on ...
  • Messi cops FIFA world award — again
    ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) — Lionel Messi's mesmerising performances for Barcelona outweighed a disappointing World Cup, ensuring the Argentina forward was named the world's best player of 2010. Messi won the FIFA award for a second straight year on Monday, finishing ahead of Barcelona teammates ...
  • HEWITT OUTLASTS YOUZHNY
    Lleyton Hewitt and Gael Monfils both won lengthy battles on the opening day of the AAMI Classic at Kooyong. Home hope Hewitt and Frenchman Monfils were...
  • China suspends German pork, egg imports over ...
    Beijing - China Wednesday suspended imports of edible pork and egg products from Germany amid a scare over contamination of some German food products with dioxin. The government issued a notice suspending imports and ordering port checks on German pork and egg food items in transit to China, st ...
  • Snow depresses Heathrow December traffic by 1 ...
    More News December snowstorms cut passenger traffic at London's Heathrow airport by nearly 10 percent, capping a year marked by costly disruptions including strikes and volcanic ash, the airport's owner said Wednesday. BAA Ltd. said Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport, handled 65.7 million passe ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

  • Christian Arabs’ Plight: Foreign ‘Prot ...
    By Nicola Nasser* Suddenly, the U. S. - European alliance is acting to protect the “existence” of the Christian Arab minority against the Muslim Arab majority whose very existence is besieged and threatened by this same alliance, drawing on a wide spread Islamophobia while at the same time exacerba ...
  • Israel Negotiates With Bulldozer Blades and Hydrau ...
    By Khalid Amayreh in occupied East Jerusalem As Hillary Clinton sought a stronger "alliance" with the Gulf's Arab states, America's real friend and client, which is Israel, was demolishing yet another Arab property in occupied East Jerusalem. The demolished building was the Shepherd hotel, which ...
  • To Jon and Colbert: From Activist Reporter Looking ...
    eileen fleming Generations of children grew up watching Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite and many dreamed of growing up and being them. My dream was to grow up and be Brenda Starr, the redheaded ace investigative journalist of the Sunday Comics. Edward R. Murrow turned public opinion against ...
  • America's Looted Generation: The kids are NOT alri ...
    By Jane Stillwater Here in America today, Old White Guys tend to be rather angry at the way things are going -- but theirs is not the generation that should be getting truly pissed off. The OWGs are doing fine financially. They have nothing to complain about. Their walkers and scooters are paid ...
  • Giffords Shooter Was JEWISH; 30 Minute Response Ti ...
    Greg Bacon No wonder the Zionist owned MSM was Reporting Non-Stop and Only Mentioning the Wounded Jewish Congresswoman, her dead Jewish aide and the Little Girl Born on 9/11, they didn't want you to know the Killer is Jewish Arizona Shooter Jared Loughner is JewishRead more �Original post blogged ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • CEO pay: Recession-proof
    A new study by CCPA Research Associate Hugh Mackenzie shows Canada's best paid 100 CEOs appear to be recession-proof. The study looks at 2009 compensation levels for Canada’s best paid 100 CEOs and finds they pocketed an average of $6.6 million during the darkest period of the recession – a stark c ...
  • Looking into the crystal ball: 2011 predictions
    Happy New Year!�� As we round out another decade, thoughts turn to the future. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives� Hugh Mackenzie, Shauna Mackinnon, Bruce Campbell, Trish Hennessy, Jim Stanford and Armine Yalnizyan weigh in on the issues facing Canada in the years ahead. They flag the e ...
  • CCPA features in The Globe and Mail's discussion o ...
    In the last few weeks The Globe and Mail has been examining the problem of income inequality in Canada. Our own Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan was the special guest in The Globe and Mail's online discussion about income inequality. Read that lively discussion here. The Globe also looks at the li ...
  • Income inequality bad for everyone: Richard Wilkin ...
    The CCPA was pleased to co-sponsor a three-city lecture tour featuring Richard Wilkinson, co-author of the best selling book The Spirit Level, which examines income inequality among developed nations. During his sold-out stop in Toronto, he sat down with the CCPA's Trish Hennessy to talk about the b ...
  • Mortgage financing reform needed to avoid another ...
    Changes to U.S. and Canadian mortgage finance polices are necessary in order to prevent a future financial crisis, say two prominent economists. In What Can Be Learned from the Financial Crisis in the U.S. and the Much Milder Crisis in Canada? Doug Peters and Arthur Donner make several recommendatio ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Boehner Says No To King’s Reactionary Restri ...
    Speaker Boehner says no to new restrictions on firearms | The Hill Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is rejecting gun-control legislation offered by the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee in response to the weekend shootings of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and 19 others in Arizona. Rep. P ...
  • Hippies wear Matelot?
    Meg Ryan in Proof of Life: Hopeless Hippie | Clothes On Film In Proof of Life (2000), a kidnap thriller set in fictional South American country Tecala, Meg Ryan plays Alice Bowman, one of the least convincing hippies ever committed to film. On Alice, hippie seems like a passing trend rather than a l ...
  • Pope Says Sex Ed Threatens Religious Freedom
    Europe sex ed an ‘attack’ on religious freedom: pope | Yahoo Sex and civic education in schools in Europe is an “attack” on religious freedom, Pope Benedict XVI said on Monday, following a Vatican row with Spain over a new course promoting liberal values. “I cannot remain silent about another attack ...
  • Shut the Hell Up, You Dumb Ass
    By Diana May- Waldman and Mitchell Waldman For the most part, I prefer to stay in a peaceful state of mind. I meditate and recite positive and peaceful affirmations. I adhere to the theory that we can change the world by [...]
  • Obama Does More Than Just Issuing A Statement
    Obama’s Tucson calls | Politico President Obama continues his calls to victims of and others connected to the Tucson shooting on Monday night, including a call he made to Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik to thank him for his department’s work to respond to the incident. Obama also called Patrici ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Fox News: The No. 1 Name in Murder Fantasies
    Bill O'Reilly's recent "joke" about decapitating Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank was only the latest example of a demented Fox News culture that permits on-air personalities to fantasize about assassination and other forms of violence against those deemed enemies of the station, its personali ...
  • Robert Greenwald on the Ed Show -- January 6, 2011 ...
  • The Tyranny of Defense Inc.
    American politics is typically a grimy business of horses traded and pork delivered. Political speech, for its part, tends to be formulaic and eminently forgettable. Yet on occasion, a politician will transcend circumstance and bear witness to some lasting truth: George Washington in his Farewell Ad ...
  • War Is a Drug
    If, as 2011 begins, you want to peer into the future, enter my time machine, strap yourself in, and head for the past, that laboratory for all developments of our moment and beyond.Just as 2010 ended, the American military�s urge to surge resurfaced in a significant way.� It seems that �leaders� in ...
  • The Rise of the New Global Elite
    If you happened to be watching NBC on the first Sunday morning in August last summer, you would have seen something curious. There, on the set of Meet the Press, the host, David Gregory, was interviewing a guest who made a forceful case that the U.S. economy had become “very distorted.” In the wake ...

Salon

  • Bank of America is the next target for WikiLeaks
    After weeks of guessing, a contact close to Julian Assange's controversial organization confirms that the next batch of leaked documents released by WikiLeaks will nail Bank of America. CNBC.com's John Carney reported the news from an anonymous source just a few minutes ago, and the clues leading ...
  • Seattle weekly The Stranger historicizes Palin's c ...
    Created by Dan Savage and Aaron Huffman, this image of the cover of this week's The Stranger, a(n awesome) weekly newspaper in Seattle, says it all:
  • The five worldviews that define American politics
    Does it often seem that many American politicians and pundits are talking past each other? That is because they really are. The frustrating nature of public debate arises in large part from the fact that Americans do not share a single worldview.
  • San Francisco appoints first Asian-American mayor
    San Francisco lawmakers have unanimously voted to appoint a veteran city government official as the city's first Asian-American mayor.
  • Judge orders Michael Jackson doctor to stand trial
    A judge on Tuesday ordered the personal physician of Michael Jackson to stand trial for involuntary manslaughter after hearing testimony that he administered a lethal dose of a powerful anesthetic and other sedatives then left the pop star alone.

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

EU Times

  • First WikiLeaks’ Cable Mentioning UFOs Released
    On December 13th, we have reported that WikiLeaks Set To Reveal UFO Cables. After almost a month, Wikileaks finally released its first cable about UFOs. The US Embassy in Minsk prepared this diplomatic cable on the comments of Yuriy Zhadobin, chairman of the intelligence service of the former Soviet ...
  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange ‘could face the D ...
    Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said today they fear he could face execution in the United States if he is extradited to Sweden. The 39-year-old whistleblower is wanted by the Swedish authorities over claims that he sexually assaulted two women during a visit to Stockholm in August. But ...
  • Woman’s Body Found in Area of ‘Kensington Strangle ...
    Man known as “Kensington Strangler” killed four women and raped three others but he doesn’t get any media attention. Philadelphia police say they found a woman’s body in the same area terrorized by the so-called “Kensington Strangler”, who is linked to the murders of at least three other women, Fox ...
  • Brisbane homes evacuated as crisis escalates
    The devastating Queensland floods that have claimed at least nine lives in the past 24 hours and left 59 missing have hit the state’s capital Brisbane, where thousands of residents have been warned to evacuate their homes. There were fears that the extent of the flooding could exceed the levels of t ...
  • Wife of White House Adviser Found Dead in Burning ...
    Homicide investigators were called to the scene Monday of a burning car that contained the body of the wife of a White House adviser. Ashley Turton, a Washington lobbyist who was a former chief of staff to Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., and the wife of White House congressional liaison Dan Turton, was ...

Stonecipher News

  • Reasons to Donate Blood
    Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actuality ...
  • Special Education High School Transition Services
    From my Factoidz page: 1414(d) and in Findings about “effective transition services to promote successful post-Students typically start transition services at the age 14 if educational services are still required as determined by the school district and the IEP team. However, Washington State’s Offi ...
  • Don't Quit Your Day Job
    This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Ashworth College. All opinions are 100% mine. With approximately 4,000,000 students today, more than 20 percent of all students enrolled in higher education are taking at least one course online. Self paced online courses all ...
  • Breast Cancer Gene May Raise Men’s Risk, Too
    Source: HealthDay News: "A faulty gene that greatly increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer also boosts a man’s risk for the disease, a new study finds. While most people think of breast cancer as a woman’s illness, in rare cases men can develop breast tumors as well. The new study found that me ...
  • Diabetics Urged to Confer With Their Doctor About ...
    According to Amanda Gardner HealthDay Reporter, "THURSDAY, July 15 (HealthDay News) -- One day after a U.S. advisory panel recommended that the controversial diabetes drug Avandia stay on the market -- albeit with added restrictions -- several medical organizations are urging patients not to change ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • It could be 2012 before 4G LTE Verizon iPhone arri ...
    Verizon Wireless and Apple finally launched their iPhone for the Verizon network today, but a lot of folks were disappointed to hear it was a code division multiple access (CDMA) phone and not a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) phone, which has faster data speeds. Apple and Verizon officials said that an ...
  • Pope urges Pakistan to repeal anti-blasphemy law
    Pakistan must repeal its anti-blasphemy law because it acts as a "pretext for acts of injustice and violence against religious minorities", the pope said Monday as he urged world leaders to ensure Christians are protected from attack and discrimination
  • Nfl divisional playoffs: final eight
    NFL DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS: FINAL EIGHT   NFL FINAL EIGHT TAKE CENTER STAGE IN DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS And then there were eight. The NFL’s remaining eight teams will be in the spotlight on Divisional Weekend. On Saturday, January 15, the AFC North champion Pittsburgh Steelers (12-4) will host the divisio ...
  • Lawyers for WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Lay Out Case ...
    Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks website. Photo credit - Espen Moe, 20 March 2010, CC-BY-2.0) WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has pledged to step up the release of secret documents. He made the declaration outside a London court Tues., January 11, 2011, where his lawyers were fighting to preve ...
  • Google Chrome drops H.264 video support. What does ...
    The web’s open and community-driven development model is a key factor in its rapid evolution and ubiquitous adoption. The  WebM Project was  launched last year to bring an open, world-class video codec to the web. Since the launch, we’ve seen first-hand the benefits of an open development model. Wi ...

Groklaw

  • Oral Argument in Facebook v. ConnectU (video)
    [PJ: This is oral argument today at the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in the appeal by the Winklevoss twins, who are seeking to throw out the 2008 settlement they got from Facebook. Here's the NY Times reporting on the event, and AfterDawn, and Law.com, but I thought you'd enjoy to se ...
  • In Russia, Source Opens You!
    While the United States seemed to move from a possible OpenID login to more of a "secure" intranet approach, Russia has moved from commercial software to open source. The two moves may not seem to have much in common, but they do. Control. Under the banner of security, the U.S. has announced the cr ...
  • Microsoft: Apple can't claim exclusive rights to ' ...
    "Any secondary meaning or fame Apple has in 'App Store' is de facto secondary meaning that cannot convert the generic term 'app store' into a protectable trademark," write lawyers for Microsoft in a motion for summary judgment, filed yesterday with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. "Apple cannot ...
  • The Hudson/Oracle Situation and Hudson's future
    But one issue, which we feel is the most significant issue of all, one for which we now believe no resolution is possible: the rights to the name Hudson. Oracle has told us that they have trademark applications filed in both the EU and US for Hudson, based on Hudson's creation by Kohsuke while work ...
  • Google yanking H.264 video out of Chrome
    Google just fired a broadside in the Web's codec wars. With its alternative WebM video-encoding technology now entering the marketplace, Google announced plans today to remove built-in Chrome support for a widely used rival codec called H.264 favored by Apple and Microsoft. The move places Google in ...

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

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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 ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • 'Military-industrial complex' conference: NC, Jan. ...
    My friend Chuck Fager from Quaker House in Fayetteville, NC, and other peace movement friends have put together a terrific conference for next week, to mark the 50th anniversary of the great farewell speech in which Pres. Dwight Eisenhower warned Americans of the dangers of a "military-industrial co ...
  • H. Shue on advanced militaries targeting civilian ...
    The Oxford philosopher and ethicist Henry Shue has just published an extremely important piece of analysis (PDF here, pp. 2-7) that unpacks the timely issue of why it is that first-world militaries that have well-stocked arsenals of Precision-Guided Munitions (PGMs, also known as 'smart bombs') are ...
  • Israel security official in 2007, 'Sooner or late ...
    The Norwegian daily Aftenposten has been posting a lot of new Wikileaks material. In there is this cable from 26 July, 2007-- just a few weeks after the elected Hamas leaders of Gaza rebuffed a U.S.-backed coup attempt led by Fateh strongman Mohamed Dahlan. It's a record by a U.S. diplo in Tel Aviv ...
  • IDF (IOF) lies about Bil'in tear-gas killing
    Careful Israeli reporter and eye-witness Noam Sheizaf skilfully deconstructs all the lies the IDF/IOF told about last Saturday's death from poison gas of Jawaher Abu Rahmeh of the West bank town of Bil'in. As with the IOF's killing of eight unarmed Turkish citizens and one unarmed Turkish-American ...
  • M. Paraipan: Another informative Hamas-leader inte ...
    Following up on the interview she conducted with Hamas Secretary-General Khaled Meshaal in Damascus in early November, Romanian researcher Manuela Paraipan conducted another one in Beirut recently with Hamas's representative in Lebanon, Osama Hamdan. Her institution in Bucharest, MEPEI, has publishe ...

First Truths

  • Green Rising: The Dangers of Political Environment ...
    Today, my criticism of political environmentalism�was published as a Feature Article by C4SS.
  • The State Serves Poison As Food
    Corporate profit-guarding masquerading as consumer protection is the usual order of business within the United States regulatory state, a circumstance I attack in a C4SS commentary with regard to a new food safety bill.
  • Shielding Global Statism
    For C4SS, I aired my thoughts on the recently announced NATO-wide missile shield.
  • Torture: The Great American Export
    My latest denounces the complete impunity with which the United States and its proxies carry out their torture tactics.
  • Anarchists Are No Bomb-Throwers
    In a statement responding to mail bomb explosions at two embassies in Rome, Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni has placed blame on an “international anarchist movement.” And in light of the general assumptions regarding anarchists — those unhinged madmen in black masks — we shouldn’t be all ...

Media Co-Op

  • VMC solidarity with the Tejido de Comunicación in ...
    Below is a letter sent from the VMC collective to the Communications Network (Tejido de Comunicación) in Cauca, Colombia. The Spanish version is attached as a PDF below, and is available on the Tejido's website. + January, 2011 To the journalists, editors, video makers and coordinators of the Tejido ...
  • Canada's Debt-ucation Province
    Students in Nova Scotia fear skyrocketing tuition fees HALIFAX—“At times, I wanted to disappear forever and not bother anyone with my stupid money problems,” recalls Jane (not her real name), who, like many other graduates in Nova Scotia, accr ...
  • January's Tide Is In
    The Halifax Media Co-op's January issue of the Tide is now in! Find it in cafes and community spaces around town or click here to download.� AttachmentSize the_tide_v3i1_jan011.pdf1.66 MB
  • North Montreal's New Year's Noise
    Anti-Prison Demo A Success   As twenty-ten comes to an end celebratory cheer is not mutual for those unfortunate enough to be held prisoner of the state.  Refugees, impoverished and marginalized peoples-- all political prisoners entrapped in t ...
  • How Hollywood De-fanged Potter’s Radical Politics
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 1: more than a movie review The Harry Potter novels include a significant political subtext, which is at least as important as the teen romance or coming-of-age aspects. In Deathly Hallows the novel, the po ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • James Moody (1925 – 2010) Homage to a Jazz Master
    The Durgafilms Dance Company interprets King Pleasure's canonical version of "James Moody's Mood for Love". (Image editing by David Seaton) David Seaton's News LinksThe Great Jazz saxophonist, James Moody just died three days ago. He is best known for his 1949 solo improvisation of "I'm in the Mood ...
  • The shooting in Tucson: the sound and the fury
    A 22-year-old man described as a social outcast with wild beliefs steeped in mistrust faces a federal court hearing Monday on charges he tried to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in a Tucson shooting rampage that left six people dead. - Associated PressDavid Seaton's News LinksThe obligatory them ...
  • Without a "Golden Voice" or a "Golden Kidney".... ...
    David Seaton's News LinksThe story of a homeless beggar with a "golden voice" has caught the world's imagination. The man in question, Ted Williams, is charming and witty, with suffering written all over him, and it is impossible not to wish him well From one moment to the next, this poor man, wh ...
  • Poor United States, so far from God and so close t ...
    The lesson of the past few years: Watch out for things that can go massively wrong. What could go massively wrong in 2011? Let's start next door, with Mexico.� Mexico drug war a nightmare scenario - CNNDavid Seaton's News LinksI put the quote above, one that I have taken at random from CNN, to avoid ...
  • Myth destroying chart
    David Seaton's News LinksNo comment. DS

EWG - Environmental Working Group

  • EPA Unveils Plan to Help Identify ‘Brockovich’ Che ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Washington, D.C. – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) promised to help local water utilities address public concerns over the possible presence of hexavalent chromium (chromium-6) in... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
  • EPA to Bar Fluoride-Based Pesticide
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, 202-667-6982 leeann@ewg.org; Beyond Pesticides: Jay Feldman, 202-543-5450 Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed to grant three environmental groups’ petition to end the use... [[ This is a content summary onl ...
  • U.S. Catches Up with Science On Fluoride in Drinki ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org Washington, D.C. – Since 2005, Environmental Working Group (EWG) has been pushing the federal government and municipal water utilities to reduce the levels of fluoride in drinking... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • EPA Should Require Clear Labels and Warnings for A ...
    January 05th, 2011 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved a partial waiver last year to allow the sale of gasoline containing 15 percent ethanol (E15) in flexible-fuel or Model Year 2007 and newer vehicles. Most gasoline... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • Teflon chemical PFOA – Comments on Draft Screening ...
    January 04th, 2011 Click here to download full comment PDF, including detailed analysis that follows the cover letter below. December 24, 2010 Mr. David Morin, Executive Director Program Development and Engagement Division Science and... [[ This is a content summary on ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • US Government to Europe: Give This to Your People ...
    A WikiLeaks release of U.S. diplomatic cables has revealed that the Bush administration planned ways to retaliate against Europe for its refusal to use genetically modified seeds. According to Democracy Now: "In 2007, then-U.S. ambassador to France Craig Stapleton was concerned about France's de ...
  • World's Oldest Optical Illusion Found?
    Prehistoric artists may have been creating mind-bending optical illusions thousands of years ago. Duncan Caldwell found a recurring theme in Paleolithic cave art that he says can't possibly be accidental. In these images, drawings and engravings of woolly mammoths and bison share lines to create ov ...
  • How to Solve Nearly Any Illness - Without Drugs
    Writing in Counterpunch, Martha Rosenberg lists the drugs which made 2010's Hall of Shame. Here are just a few of them: Yaz and Yasmin Soon after Bayer launched the pill Yaz, 18 year olds started coming down with blood clots, gall bladder disease, heart attacks and even strokes. Chantix Afte ...
  • Falling in Love Only Takes About a Fifth of a Seco ...
    A new meta-analysis study has revealed that falling in love only takes about a fifth of a second. What's more, it can elicit not only the same euphoric feeling as using cocaine, but also affects intellectual areas of your brain. When you fall in love, 12 areas of your brain work together to release ...
  • This Troublesome Condition Afflicts 75% of Women – ...
    Yeast infections affect many women; the Global Healing Center has assembled some of the most common natural remedies for yeast infections.� Here are a few of them: Probiotics If you are taking any form of antibiotic, the likelihood of a yeast infection is increased. Probiotic foods help rest ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Private rooms save lives and money
    This year marks the 20th anniversary of the brilliant idea of building Montreal's first "super-hospital" to replace a collection of aging hospitals, one of which dates back to the 19th century.
  • Guns and gun control: let's reframe the debate
    A blast from a handgun ended the life of 9-year-old Christina Green, a sunny little girl who had gone to meet Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords because she wanted to learn more about politics.
  • Editorial: Guns and gun control; let's reframe the ...
    Christina was one of six people to die in the attack Saturday that included the attempted assassination of Giffords. Jared Loughner, a 22-year-old man believed to be mentally unstable, has been charged with murder and attempted murder.
  • Guns and gun control: let's reframe the debate
    Christina was one of six people to die in the attack Saturday that included the attempted assassination of Giffords. Jared Loughner, a 22-year-old man believed to be mentally unstable, has been charged with murder and attempted murder.
  • False autism study has done untold harm
    Immunization rates for measles, mumps and rubella have never recovered from a controversial link made between the MMR vaccine and autism.

Food World Order

  • 'food safety' bill reaching congressional conclusi ...
    urgent: contact your senator now about s510 - senate debate could extend into the weekend from natural news: Senate Bill 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, has been called "the most dangerous bill in the history of the United States of America." It would grant the U.S. government new auth ...
  • agroterror threataganda: terror fight extends to n ...
    fbi says surveillance aims to protect nation's food supply from ketv: Federal and local authorities said they're keeping a close eye on the vulnerabilities of the heartland's agricultural industry in efforts to prevent terrorist attacks. The FBI said it's actively watching Nebraska farmland and fa ...
  • food skyrockets to highest prices ever
    from natural news: Figures recently released by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) index of 55 food commodities indicates that worldwide food prices hit a record high in December. Though the costs of some food commodities like rice, corn and soy actually decreased, oil seeds and sugar jumpe ...
  • 12/23 binge & purge: hotel, motel, holiday in (cam ...
    obama to sign 'food safety bill' in early 2011* food safety bill proceeds after snafu fixed* terror plot to attack US hotel & restaurant food over a single weekend* al-ciada looking to attack US food?* US food chains investing in cambodia* feds order farmer to destroy wheat crops: sho ...
  • 1 in 7 US homes hit by hunger; numbers nearly doub ...
    6.8m US households did not have enough food last year from alertnet: The number of U.S. households that reported getting emergency food from a food pantry almost doubled between 2007 and 2009, at the height of the recession, a government report said on Monday. The U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

CrusadeWatch

  • "Crorepathy" Fr. Jegath Gasper Raj main ...
    source:  Asian Tribune The Sri Lankan Catholic Church, the Catholic Radio Veritas based in Phillipines, the Tamil Catholic hierachy and its priests have been the main links of the global network of the Church to protect, promote, provide succor and cover to the internationally banned T ...
  • Sex, lies and money in the church
    source: Indian Express, October 24, 2010 Shevlin Sebastian It was midnight. Fr Jose George could not sleep because there was no fan in his room. Jose knocked on Anna Jacobs door. When she opened it, he told her he could not sleep. She invited him inside, because there was a fan. ...
  • Denigration of Buddhism & conversion of the vu ...
    source:  Vijayvaani.com,   Oct 25, 2010 Christianisation was the third force of colonialism as best expressed by Jomo Kenyatta, the late Kenyan leader, who said: When the white man came he had the bible we had the land. Then he said let us close our eyes and pray. When we opened our eyes ...
  • Christianity's contributions mostly negative, Amer ...
    source:  Christian Century, October 26, 2010 (RNS) When asked about Christianity's recent contributions to society, Americans cited more negatives than benefits, according to a new survey.
  • Evangelism as part of foreign political strategy
    source:  The organiser, Oct 3, 2010  By Manju Gupta Evangelical Intrusions, Sandhya Jain, Rupa & Co., Pp 251 (HB), Rs 395.00 THIS book comes at an opportune moment when repeated reports of religio-political violence in the north-eastern states are pouring in, accompanied by the ris ...

Whole Truth Coalition

  • .Lies, Damned Lies and Scottish Justice
    Robert Green, the man who was brave enough to speak out about the horrific paedophile rapes of Hollie Greig, the most probable murder of her uncle Robert Greig to “shut him up”, and the sickening wall of silence by the Scottish establishment, has been arrested. We believe the charge is Breach of th ...
  • Child Rapists Protected By The State
    In the October 2009 print edition of the UK Column, we reported in our article “BBC Hides Truth of Girl’s Sexual Abuse Ordeal” the shocking ordeal of Downs Syndrome girl, Hollie Greig, who was horribly abused by an Aberdeen paedophile ring, over a period of ten years. After investigating and planni ...
  • An Invitation to Meet Hollie and Anne Greig
    ‘Hollie and Anne would like to thank their many supporters for their continuing hard work and support. Towards that end, they have decided to host an informal function near Berwick-upon-Tweed at the Marshall Meadows Hotel on Sunday the 21st of March from 2 until 5pm. The Marshall Meadows Hotel is s ...
  • Robert Green Speaking at Truthjuice Llangollen, Ma ...
    Wednesday 24th March 2010 at 7pm Reporter Robert Green was arrested in Aberdeen for the crime of seeking justice and an investigation into the case of Down’s Syndrome girl, Hollie Greig, who says she was serially-raped over a decade by an establishment paedophile ring operating in Scotland. Robert ...
  • Mary Rodwell The New Human Vers. 02

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Poor Sunderland. Your football team is doomed.
    Just a quick sympathy message for supporters of Sunderland Football Club. Apparently, David Miliband is in line to become the club's Vice Chairman. Taking his track record as Foreign Secretary and his actions regarding the European Union into account... ...this probably means that he's comi ...
  • Quote of the Day: 28th December 2010
    "So my advice to the British is: Hold on, my friends, to the great charters on which your own constitution -- and the American constitution -- stand. Hold on: Magna Carta of 1215, the Petition of Right of 1628, the Bill of Rights of 1689. And fight to destroy the Lisbon Treaty and its oppressive and ...
  • The wolves of mob rule, and why the latest petitio ...
    The politics story of the day appears to be that concerning proposals to allow the people to petition Government and, if 100,000 signatures are collected, to have that issue debated in the Pantomime Parliament. I am not going to get excited. While the idea sounds good in principle, we've been her ...
  • The great EU cover-up of fraud and corruption scan ...
    If the Daily Telegraph or Daily Express have any sense, they'll make this the new MPs expenses scandal which should lead to our restoration of sovereignty eventually... Maarten Engwirdla, the Dutch former Member of the European Court of Auditors, has blown the whistle in an interview in De Volksk ...
  • Get ready: Portugal is the next EU domino to fall ...
    Ahh, marvellous. A Monday morning, barely into the New Year, and we already have the next EU country about to fall. The Daily Telegraph reports that Portugal will be forced to accept a bailout of some 80 billion euros. Portugal say they don't want it, don't need it. Which, if Ireland is a t ...

Facing South

  • Do violent words cause violence? Lessons from the ...
    The tragic Arizona shootings that left six dead and others, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) critically wounded, have sparked debate over an important question: What's the connection between violent political rhetoric and real, deadly violence? It's not a new debate, especially in the Sou ...
  • Bill would ban high-capacity ammo used in Arizona ...
    A member of Congress has promised to introduce legislation as soon as this week that would ban the sort of high-capacity ammunition clip that turned Saturday's attempted political assassination in Arizona into a bloodbath that left six dead, 14 wounded and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) fighting ...
  • Will Duke-Progress merger advance nuclear goals?
    Two North Carolina-based electric utilities plan to merge, creating a company that will surpass the Southern Co. as the nation's largest power provider. Duke Energy of Charlotte intends to buy Progress Energy of Raleigh in a $13.7 billion all-stock deal. The new company -- which would ha ...
  • Emergency human rights petition seeks to halt depo ...
    Civil and human rights advocates filed an emergency petition [pdf] this week with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in an effort to halt the imminent deportation of hundreds of Haitian nationals by the U.S. government, calling the move a "death sentence." The petition was subm ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The gun lobby's deadly force
    Of the 10 U.S. gun dealers that sold the most firearms traced to crimes over the past four years, number in the South: 5 Of the 10 states with the most crime guns exported per 100,000 inhabitants, number in the South: 7* In the past four years, numbers of weapons from Mexico's drug wars traced ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Protests Mark 9th Anniversary of Guantanamo’s Opening Protesters marked the ninth anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantanamo Tuesday with rallies in Washington, London, and Guantanamo Bay, according to reports. Also yesterday, a federal judge denied the release … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    French Officials Say Al Qaeda Killed Hostages in Niger French officials said Monday that they believe militants belonging to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb are responsible for the shooting deaths of two French hostages in Niger Saturday, according to … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Shot; Six Killed; Domestic Terrorism Charges Not Ruled Out for Gunman Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was shot in the head Saturday morning outside a supermarket in Tucson during a meet-and-greet event with constituents, and multiple reports suggest … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Guantanamo Detainee from Algeria Sent Home Despite His Resistance The United States said Thursday that it had returned a Guantanamo detainee to his native Algeria despite the objections of the detainee and his lawyers that he feared Islamic extremist violence, … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Pakistan, Assassination Suspect Celebrated By Many Hardliners A day after Pakistani politician Salman Taseer was laid to rest after being assassinated by a member of his security detail, the murder suspect was being celebrated by many hardliners around the … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Android Overtakes iPhone in U.S. for the First Tim ...
    In line with the predictions by Gartner some months ago, open source Android OS is indeed winning the war against Apple's iOS in the great fight for U.S. smartphone market dominance. For the first time ever in U.S. smartphone history, more people are using Google's Android OS powered smartphones tha ...
  • How About Something Similar to Ubuntu Control Cent ...
    Ubuntu Control Center is a nice simple application to sort things out easily and�intuitively in Ubuntu. It is originally inspired from Mandriva Control Center and�aims to centralize and organize the main configuration tools available in Ubuntu. Ubuntu Control Center Ubuntu Control Center aims ...
  • Linux is NOT Eating Up Your RAM, Here's Why!
    One of the first constraints new Linux users face is the dilemma regarding the memory usage by Linux. It is not really what you think it is. "Linux is borrowing unused memory for disk caching. This makes it looks like you are low on memory, but you are not! Everything is fine!" You RAM is fine! ...
  • Readers' Choices - Top 13 Tech Drive-in Stories of ...
    2010 was a momentous year as far as our small little blog is concerned. Well, the most important part is, 2010 marked the beginning of Tech Drive-in, 2010 Feb 17 to be precise. Yeah thats right, we are not even an year old! And we already have a really good readership base and fan following which wa ...
  • First Glimpses of Android 3.0 "Honeycomb"
    Android 3.0 is not just another version of Android like the recently released Android 2.3 "Gingerbread". Instead, Android 3.0 codenamed "Honeycomb" is built from scratch to suit the needs of devices with bigger screen sizes, tablets to be specific(in the current context). Google officially previewed ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • SCANDAL: GERMAN GOVERNMENT BURIED REPORT BY ADVIS ...
    *Report published in November by a government panel of experts recommends default as way of preventing the transfer union and the economic meltdown of the eurozone: German minister only acknowledged it existed yesterday *Advisors says national governments should take steps themselves to default ...
  • PORTUGAL ON THE BRINK: IMF/EU loan or default as G ...
    *ECB buys Portugal’s bonds before key auction on Wednesday: China buys eurobonds  *German economic advisors recommend default for debt-laden nations like Portugal in a report buried by the Merkel government *Why Portugal should default and leave the eurozone or introduce a parellel, regional cu ...
  • CHINA TO BUY EUROBONDS, DEEPENING EUROPE’S D ...
    China is set to buy eurobonds issued by the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) rather than the souvereign bonds of individiual governments, according to Yu Yongding, a Chinese economist, in a move that will accelerate the eurozone debt crisis. http://www.forexyard.com/en/news/China-must-be ...
  • Dioxin poisoning in Germany spreads to pigs
    Agriculture | 11.01.2011 Dioxin contamination spreads to pigs  For the first time since the dioxin scandal broke out in Germany, the toxin has been found in pigs. EU officials have confirmed that the animal feed was also exported to France and Denmark. German authorities have detected high levels of ...
  • EURO CRISIS ESCALATES: GERMANY PREPARES TO HAND PO ...
    - Germany‘s Chancellor Angela Merkel manoeuvres Portugal into loss of souvereignty and economic meltdown - Merkel’s remarks have helped push Portugal’s debt to unaffordable levels, indicates German government economic advisor Beatrice Weder di Mauro - No debt restructuring mechanism in place though ...

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 ...

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 ...

electric politics

  • Trench Warfare
    It's not just morally unconscionable that a tiny minority of Americans have almost all the money, it's a terrible thing in policy terms, especially if what you want is democracy. A plutocracy — let's not kid ourselves about this — is basically a slave system. To talk about how we got into our prese ...
  • Priorities
    To be honest, the shrimp fishermen don't matter. The Gulf coast tourist traps don't matter. The economic effects of the spill. Don't matter. It's not about the money. What matters is that we're destroying the environment, killing countless innocent creatures. I keep hoping things may not be quite a ...
  • Regime Change Politics
    We tell ourselves that humans are sentient animals. Yet here in the U.S. our politics seem rather more directed by delusion, or denial, than reason. Collectively, we not only do not know that our political system does not produce democratic results, we pretend the results are democratic no matter h ...
  • The Death and Life of Intelligence Analysis
    Magical thinking drives the Neocons' perpetual efforts to start a war with Iran. Politicians, by and large, fail to apprehend the danger. If it weren't for analysts like Dr. Thomas Fingar — and many others — who have held the line on explaining the real costs of war, we would by now be well and tru ...
  • (Unlawful) Targeted Killing
    The U.S. government should not murder people abroad. A simple enough rule, yet in a bizarre, barbaric, and cold-blooded fashion Washington now not only claims the right to murder anyone it wants, anywhere it wants, abroad, including American citizens, but actively carries out such intent with drone ...

PR News

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.  ...

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Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Haiti-Helping Nonprofits Sitting On Funds
    If you cut a check to a Haiti aid group after last year's earthquake disaster, surely you did so with lofty visions that your money would sit in a bank account, doing absolutely nothing for months on end. NPR reports that's just what happened to most of the $1.5 billion Americans donated to 60 Hai ...
  • BlueAnt Cares When Bluetooth Fails And Police Caug ...
    The BlueAnt Bluetooth headset that Bixby's wife normally uses to talk on the phone in the car failed to connect one day...which just happened to be the day that a police officer saw her holding her phone, which was on speaker phone at the time. She received a ticket. Bixby wrote to BlueAnt about th ...
  • After Holiday Break, Spammers Back In Action
    Just about everyone phones it in during the holidays, even spammers. Whether due to tightened security or office parties, the amount of worldwide spam activity nosedived in late December. The bad news is that the spambots have reportedly woken up and are getting back to work. Last week the BBC rep ...
  • U.S. Seizes Killer Chocolate Eggs At Canadian Bord ...
    The Kinder Surprise is a delicious chocolate egg that contains a small toy. They're available pretty much everywhere....except the United States, which has banned them because the tiny toys present a choking hazard to small children. And people who like to swallow chocolate eggs whole, we guess. Th ...
  • Morning Deals
    ClothingBoden: [Apparel] [Get 15% OFF + free shipping & return at Spring Men and Women's Wear Sale]: [Athletic Apparel] [Save up to 40% at Semi-Annual Sale] Adidas: [Athletic Apparel] [End-of-Season Sale on Athletic Shoes and Apparel]macys: [Women's Apparel] Macy's Online Clearance Sale: 50% to 75% ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • The Satyam Fraud, Two Years Later
    Satyam Tech Center; Photo by Ranjit Nair Roughly two years ago, Ramalinga Raju, the CEO of Satyam Computer Services, confessed to his board that the company -- the fourth largest IT outsourcer in India at the time -- was insolvent. Approximately $1 billion in assets, Raju admitted then, did not ...
  • GAP Senior Counsel Applauds Cleveland Effort to Fo ...
    ProPublica: Which Senator Secretly Sabotaged the Popular Whistleblower Protection Bill? This ProPublica piece looks at GAP and On The Media’s crowdsourcing effort to discover which senator placed a secret hold on the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, effectively killing the legislation ...
  • 25 Senators Contacted; Seven Deny Placing Hold
    Dear GAP Supporters: As you know, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) was killed by an anonymous "secret hold" by a lone senator on the final day of the last session of Congress. Over the weekend, GAP and On The Media launched a campaign to identify the senator who sabotage ...
  • L.A. Times op-ed: Who Killed the Whistleblower Bil ...
    On The Media (NPR): Blow the Whistle This OTM segment features a follow-up interview with GAP Legal Director Tom Devine on the death of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (S. 372) in the lame duck session of Congress. The legislation was killed at the last minute (despite passing in ...
  • On The Media & GAP Work to Identify Senator Who Pl ...
    Dear GAP Supporters: As you know, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) -- a critical reform that would have provided real, solid protections to federal employees who wish to speak out about wrongdoing, corruption, and fraud that they witness -- was killed by an anonymous "secre ...

UK Progressive

  • Editorial: Mourning in America
    Spirit, Guns and False Equivalency by Denis G. Campbell Editor-in-Chief Ali, a hospice care nurse from California, was a 9-11 1st responder. As soon as planes were cleared to fly, she was aboard the 1st jet from San Francisco. She jetted across the country and was there at ‘The Pile’ (we call it Gro ...
  • Acting Responsibly vs. Holding Responsible: RW Sho ...
    The Right’s false equivalency continues in Arizona. They try to deny there is blood on their hands by blaming Left and attacking when the rhetoric gets out of their control. This Crooks&Liars video shows Mediaite’s Rachel Sklar mounting a reasoned and honourable Push Back against Wingnut shock jock ...
  • Harmless Video from Louisville, Kentucky’s The Exa ...
    If you were wondering where the climate for last Saturday’s assassinations in Tucson may have been born, look no further than these 3-minutes where US citizens proudly display their guns, hatred and vitriol towards President Obama. Sadly during the fall campaign I saw three dozen such videos from al ...
  • Book Review: The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved ...
    By Theodora Filis Sandor Ellix Katz is the author of The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America’s Underground Food Movements, Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods. He travels widely teaching people simple fermentation techniques. A native of New York C ...
  • Oil Leak Is Latest Mishap for Alaska’s Troubled Pi ...
    by Marian Wang, ProPublica.org Almost all oil production on Alaska’s North Slope remains shut down after workers on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline system discovered a leak over the weekend. BP, the pipeline’s company’s largest single owner, has called it a “significant event.” BP is no stranger to pipeli ...

NewsAlert

  • U.S. Says New York City Overbilled Medicaid
    The New York Times reports:The federal government has accused New York City of overbilling Medicaid by “at least tens of millions of dollars” by improperly approving 24-hour home care for thousands of patients. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan also insinu ...
  • Illinois House passes 66% hike in state income tax
    The Chicago Sun-Times reports on the new massive tax increase from Obamaland:The tax increase, which would amount to an $800 annual hit to a family with a $40,000 household income, would take effect immediately.The Democrat party in Illinois: asking for middle income people to sacrifice more for gre ...
  • Budgetary Delusions: Federal Deficit Charts from C ...
    Mish has a great chart for you.
  • Here Comes Barack Cameron?
    New Geography
  • Governor Jerry Brown to disconnect 48,000 cellpho ...
    The L.A. Times reports:Alarmed at discovering that the state pays for 96,000 cellphones, Gov. Jerry Brown issued an executive order Tuesday seeking to cut in half the number of devices being billed to taxpayers. Requiring 48,000 cellphones to be turned in by June 1 will save the state about $20 mil ...

JoNova

  • Green Hit list: Wasted money and brain power
    TWAWKI found something he calls a green hit list. The “Carbon Capture report” tucks away more meaningless data about you than you could hope to (not) have to read: Factoids you didn’t know existed, don’t want to understand and never cared to compare. There is so much money sloshing around in The Big ...
  • Sceptics ask: Is the UK government’s climate propa ...
    Just when you think things are as inanely silly as they can be, they raise the stakes. It’s a game of double or nothing in the race to the bottom. The close common interests of three big government agencies is fragmenting and instead of skeptics launching the FOI’s, this time, the BBC is. Just in [. ...
  • Laptop beats Met Supercomputer: SOI index (at reco ...
    Back on August 6, 2010, when the UK BOM was predicting a warm winter, and every Met Agency in the West was already declaring that 2010 would be the hottest year ever, Bryan Leyland predicted (on a global scale) that before the end of the year, there would be significant cooling. As you can see [...]
  • Laptop beats Met Supercomputer: SOI index (at reco ...
    Back on August 6, 2010, when the UK BOM was predicting a warm winter, and every Met Agency in the West was already declaring that 2010 would be the hottest year ever, Bryan Leyland predicted (on a global scale) that before the end of the year, there would be significant cooling. As you can see [...]
  • Cold times means more death, war, rebellion, droug ...
    It seems a warmer climate might be bad, but a colder one is deadly. Once upon a time, people thought that overpopulation triggered crashes, but in this study by Lee and Zhang the hard numbers suggest instead that it was climate, and of course, it’s not the warmer kind of climate that causes the prob ...

ReNew America

  • Taking advantage of tragedy
    (Washington Times) - True to Rahm's Rule of never letting a good crisis go to waste, liberal pundits and Democratic politicians are consciously exploiting Saturday's tragic shooting in Tucson for political gain. At a time when the country should be coming together calmly to make sense of something a ...
  • Tucson gunman Jared Loughner appears in court
    (London Daily Mail) - He was handcuffed, his head shaved and his face impassive - and there was a cut on his right temple. Jared Lee Loughner appeared in a Phoenix court this afternoon wearing a tan inmate jumpsuit...
  • The congressional probe of Islamofascism -- a sugg ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - Anyone who's watched Congressman Peter King on TV knows that he is fearless. The self-appointed gatekeepers of "political correctness" don't scare him...
  • Congresswoman readies gun-control bill
    (Politico) - One of the fiercest gun-control advocates in Congress, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), pounced on the shooting massacre in Tucson Sunday, promising to introduce legislation as soon as Monday targeting the high-capacity ammunition the gunman used...
  • 41% of NYC pregnancies end in abortion
    (WABC) - Eye-opening statistics about the rate of abortions in New York City have been released by the Health Department. It raises questions about the effectiveness of current birth control education. 41% of all New York City pregnancies end in abortion...

Truth Offering

  • Did J.P. Morgan Sink the Titanic!?
    1st Row: JP Morgan, Joseph Bruce Ismay, John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim. 2nd Row: The Federal Reserve and the TitanicAs youngsters, we're all told the infamous story of the Titanic, the supposedly indestructible ship that sunk on its maiden voyage. We're all familiar with the story: the shi ...
  • Aflockalypse Now!
    Sorry for the cheesy story title...I just couldn't resist. But seriously, this week, the media has been flooded with reports of bird's dropping from the sky; there are even reports of all kinds of sea life -- from crabs to sardines -- washing ashore. Check out this interactive map to see all of thes ...
  • Latest Poll - Week Ending 1/2/11
    Happy New Year! We've been away for a bit, but we're back with the results from our holiday poll. We asked you, "Do you think the large influx of Tea Party members and Republicans will help restore our liberty in 2011?" Quite the apropos question considering that today is the day the new members of ...
  • The Mainstream Media: In the Pocket of the Global ...
    For the record, I'd like to state that I believe in climate change; I believe that during any given period of time, the planet is either warming or cooling. Factually speaking, that is the nature of weather and climate: it's constantly in flux. To deny climate change is to deny reality. I think we c ...
  • Podcast: Truth Offering w/ Matt Gordon - December ...
    Check out our first Podcast featuring TruthOffering.com's Matt Gordon. Topics range from WikiLeaks and Internet censorship, to food freedom and the Federal Reserve. Being that it's our first Podcast, it's a work-in-progress. So, please leave any and all feedback. Thanks...and enjoy: �

2012 Blog

  • Tampa Airport and The Magnetic Pole Shift
    This story has caused a big stir online, leading many people to jump to the conclusion that the magnetic poles are shifting, and doom is near. The runways have large numbers visible to the pilots when they land the planes. The numbers are used for the pilots to line up their compasses for a safe [.. ...
  • Birds, Fish and Crabs Dying in Great Numbers
    There’s a lot of talk about these (perhaps) mysterious deaths, both online in conspiracy forums, and in mainstream media. A good summary of all the events is at News.com.au. At this stage, I think the only way we’ll be able to solve this (if it needs solving) is for it to happen again, in great [... ...
  • Child Says Doomsday Will Be Fun
    This was in The Age a few days ago: Of course, the film 2012 also helped to put this ”end of the world” idea into people’s mind. Jordan Murnane, 10, Jake Drummond, 11, and Benjamin Dear, 10, haven’t seen the film but they have heard the rumours. And they have considered what they would do before [. ...
  • Keeping an Eye on Earthquakes
    I’m not a fan of “Earth Changes”, because in the last decade I have not seen a year in which any forces of nature have occurred outside the range of probability. But because of the recent eclipse/earthquake connection, which I was alerted to by Mitch Battros (and which I refined from 2 weeks either ...
  • Space News Items in Brief
    Gamma Rays have been detected from a nova (not to be confused with a supernova) for the first time, something that has surprised scientists. I’m guessing that unlike supernovae, we are unable to tell if a nova event is likely to occur any time soon from a nearby star. This is the latest in a [...] ...

Facing South

  • Do violent words cause violence? Lessons from the ...
    The tragic Arizona shootings that left six dead and others, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) critically wounded, have sparked debate over an important question: What's the connection between violent political rhetoric and real, deadly violence? It's not a new debate, especially in the Sou ...
  • Bill would ban high-capacity ammo used in Arizona ...
    A member of Congress has promised to introduce legislation as soon as this week that would ban the sort of high-capacity ammunition clip that turned Saturday's attempted political assassination in Arizona into a bloodbath that left six dead, 14 wounded and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) fighting ...
  • Will Duke-Progress merger advance nuclear goals?
    Two North Carolina-based electric utilities plan to merge, creating a company that will surpass the Southern Co. as the nation's largest power provider. Duke Energy of Charlotte intends to buy Progress Energy of Raleigh in a $13.7 billion all-stock deal. The new company -- which would ha ...
  • Emergency human rights petition seeks to halt depo ...
    Civil and human rights advocates filed an emergency petition [pdf] this week with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in an effort to halt the imminent deportation of hundreds of Haitian nationals by the U.S. government, calling the move a "death sentence." The petition was subm ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The gun lobby's deadly force
    Of the 10 U.S. gun dealers that sold the most firearms traced to crimes over the past four years, number in the South: 5 Of the 10 states with the most crime guns exported per 100,000 inhabitants, number in the South: 7* In the past four years, numbers of weapons from Mexico's drug wars traced ...

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Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Episode 6. Leon Trotsky, Father of German Nazism ( ...
    Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 But back to Russia. In giving the finger to his Western Partners and breaking Russia’s diplomatic isolation at the Genoa Conference by signing the Treaty of Rapallo, Lenin had expended the last of his strength. In May 1922, he had a stroke. It was the first time [...]
  • A Brief Survey of NATO’s Intelligence Services in ...
    By Nikita Mendkovich (Russia) The activities of NATO’s intelligence services in Afghanistan have long been the subject of conjecture and supposition, and that has sometimes made it difficult to analyze events in the country, forcing us to look for traces in various events and practices. My goal in w ...
  • What Is Khodorkovsky Doing His Time For? (I)
    By Gregory Tinsky (Russia) Case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky — not long ago, one of the wealthiest men in Russia — broke not just Russians but rather an entire world apart. Khodorkovsky — still being quite a young man — seemingly became the most famous prisoner in the world. Some people believe him to be ...
  • Episode 6. Leon Trotsky, Father of German Nazism ( ...
    Nikolay Starikov (Russia) Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 About a year before Hitler organized the Beer Hall Putsch, some curious personalities appeared in his entourage, and historians have still been unable to determine the origin of the sums of money that they brought with them. The cash flowed in from many ...
  • US State Department Defends Russian Sodomites
    On November 17, 2010 the US State Department published another annual International Religious Freedom Report. Naturally, one of the chapters is devoted to Russia. While explicitly advocating the interests of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Scientologists, Seventh-day Adventists, non-authorized âIslamicâ preach ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • First WikiLeaks’ Cable Mentioning UFOs Released
    On December 13th, we have reported that WikiLeaks Set To Reveal UFO Cables. After almost a month, Wikileaks finally released its first cable about UFOs. The US Embassy in Minsk prepared this diplomatic cable on the comments of Yuriy Zhadobin, chairman of the intelligence service of the former Soviet ...
  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange ‘could face the D ...
    Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said today they fear he could face execution in the United States if he is extradited to Sweden. The 39-year-old whistleblower is wanted by the Swedish authorities over claims that he sexually assaulted two women during a visit to Stockholm in August. But ...
  • Woman’s Body Found in Area of ‘Kensington Strangle ...
    Man known as “Kensington Strangler” killed four women and raped three others but he doesn’t get any media attention. Philadelphia police say they found a woman’s body in the same area terrorized by the so-called “Kensington Strangler”, who is linked to the murders of at least three other women, Fox ...
  • Brisbane homes evacuated as crisis escalates
    The devastating Queensland floods that have claimed at least nine lives in the past 24 hours and left 59 missing have hit the state’s capital Brisbane, where thousands of residents have been warned to evacuate their homes. There were fears that the extent of the flooding could exceed the levels of t ...
  • Wife of White House Adviser Found Dead in Burning ...
    Homicide investigators were called to the scene Monday of a burning car that contained the body of the wife of a White House adviser. Ashley Turton, a Washington lobbyist who was a former chief of staff to Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., and the wife of White House congressional liaison Dan Turton, was ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Please Explain Why Catholic Bishops Get Away with ...
    I read with horror this week that a youth worker in the Northern Territory of Australia is facing charges under mandatory reporting laws. Her crime? While she did eventually report her concern about the possible sexual abuse of a five-year old child, she has been summonsed to appear before a magistr ...
  • “Apostolic Visitation” another Papal P ...
    Will the "apostolic visitation" result in any real, concrete action, or is the Church driven PR resulting from the event an end in itself? Will the Church be held accountable for producing any changes or do they expect the smoke and mirrors of the "apostolic visitation" to obscure the fact that once ...
  • Child Sexual Abuse Victims Abandoned by their Fami ...
    I have discovered a disturbing thing about children abused by Catholic Church sponsored sexual predators. I’ve met a lot of other victims recently and heard their histories, each one shocking in its own way. Each victim has their own twist of the knife that makes their story truly heart wrenching, s ...
  • Catholics Abuse Victims, Protect Criminals and Sti ...
    Which explains why last night when a small group of clergy sexual abuse victims held a peaceful candlelight vigil near the chief Australian monument to Catholic wealth and power, St Mary’s Cathedral, despite otherwise overwhelming public support, some old Catholic women loudly and viciously abused u ...
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WL Central

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U N News

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    The earthquake which devastated Haiti a year ago, killing at least 220,000 people, also took the lives of more United Nations personnel than any other single event and today the world body's Staff Union mourned the colleagues killed there and in other parts of the world in 2010.
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