19 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt 3

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War in Context

• Could Egypt follow Tunisia?
  Investors are often among the most sober of political analysts — after all, their single interest is in finding the safest and most profitable places to put their money and right now, Egypt does not look like such a location. Reuters reports, “Cairo’s stock index tumbled to an 11-week low on Wednes ...
• The promise of a progressive popular revolution
  Issandr El Amrani writes: The elation felt across the Arab world over the Tunisian uprising is deep and palpable. It is not simply that, like most people, Arabs are pleased to see a long-repressed people finally have a shot at gaining their freedom. It is also that many recognise themselves in the ...
• Tunisian dissident blogger takes job as minister
  The Guardian reports: Only last week, the dissident blogger Slim Amamou was handcuffed to a chair in the notorious interrogation rooms of Tunisia’s interior ministry being psychologically tormented by the dictator’s henchmen and led to believe that the screams he could hear from neighbouring rooms ...
• Turkey’s rise points to the post-American Middle E ...
  In the New York Times, Anthony Shadid writes: In a series of stalemates — from the Arab-Israeli conflict to Lebanon — Turkey has proved the most dynamic, projecting an increasingly assertive and independent foreign policy in an Arab world bereft of any country that matches its stature. Its success ...
• Why America is like imperial Spain
  Michael Vlahos writes: The Spain of Quixote was in 1568 a world empire — and the king’s holdings covered the globe. Its fleets and armies seemed to be everywhere. So, too, is the United States today. With 700 overseas bases, its military personnel are equally omnipresent. Spanish world authority i ...

Watts Up With That?

• Scientific American still running false warming st ...
  And the domino newscloning effect continues… Of course earlier today, the Guardian and other publications saw the problem and pulled this story: AAAS withdraws âimpossibleâ global warming paper Hours later here’s the story still running on SciAm: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=cli ...
• AAAS withdraws “impossible” global war ...
  Complaints over “impossible conclusions” cited as the reason. from CTV: EurekAlert withdraws climate change paper A study warning that the planet would warm by 2.4C by 2020, creating deadly consequences for the global food supply, is being debunked as false … Continue reading →
• Hansen gets FOIA’d on ethics issues with NAS ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, January 19, 2011 Contact: Christopher Horner, chris.horner@atinstitute.org ATI Environmental Law Center Seeks NASA Records on Dr. James Hansen Today the American Tradition Institute’s Environmental Law Center filed a federal Freedom of Information Act request with NAS ...
• Bait and switch; business as usual
  Reading the headline and first paragraph of this press release from FECYT – Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology one might think they are making a case for natural cycles. Sadly, no, not so much. Man, volcanoes and the sun … Continue reading →
• Same news, different century
  They say those who don’t learn from history are condemned to repeat it. Read this article in the Vancouver Sun, May 1982, and tell compare to the sorts of news stories we are seeing today about the same topic with … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

• Dems and GOP split over Federal Reserve
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ TheRealNews | January 19, 2011 Matt Stoller: Both parties have representatives at odds with leadership over role of the Fed. Dems and GOP split over Federal Reserve see What’s at stake in the global class struggle against capitalism Ralph Nader: Ron Paul & Bernie ...
• The revolt of the hungry by Elizabeth Schulte
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Elizabeth Schulte SocialistWorker.org January 19, 2011 Capitalism’s warped priorities produce artificial shortages of the basic necessities. “WE WANT bread and water and no Ben Ali,” read protesters’ handwritten signs as they took to the streets in cities and ...
• Kucinich Kicks off Health Care Debate with Renewed ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich Washington, Jan 18, 2011 Speaking today on the House floor, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) opposed efforts to repeal health care reform and also renewed his call for a single-payer health care system. See video [below]. The f ...
• What’s at stake in the global class struggle ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ www.workers.org/ http://blip.tv Larry Holmes, WWP secretariat member, speaking at the Workers World Forum, Jan. 14, 2011, in New York. What’s at stake in the global class struggle against capitalism see Socialism Can Save Our Cities & Small Businesses by Philip A ...
• Countering Pentagon Propaganda About Prisoners Rel ...
  by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 18 January, 2011 For several years now, one organization in the US government has persistently undermined attempts to have a grown-up debate about the perceived dangerousness of prisoners at Guantánamo, and the need to bea ...

Your New Reality

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  John Gray reviews Ha-Joon Chang's 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism : ...free market policies rarely make poor countries richer; global companies without national roots belong in the realm of myth; the US does not have the highest living standards in the world; the washing machine ch ...
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  Beautiful Russian animation from Anatoly Petrov in 1978. The subject matter is fascinating, more so considering how close the war industry is to linking the human mind directly to weapons :
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  Mute the sound on this video, taken during the Southeast Queensland floods last week, before you watch it. The music destroys the atmosphere, there should be silence, the only sound that of water lapping.
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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, ...

Wired - Science

• Slime Molds Are Earth’s Smallest, Oldest Farmers
  Colonies of a bizarre microbial goo have been found practicing agriculture at a scale tinier than any seen before. Animals such as ants, snails and beetles are known to farm fungus. But the slime moldâs bacterial farming trick takes it into a whole new realm of the organismal kingdom. “If you can p ...
• The Mass Extinction of Scientists Who Study Specie ...
  We are currently in a biodiversity crisis. A quarter of all mammals face extinction, and 90 percent of the largest ocean fish are gone. Species are going extinct at rates equaled only five times in the history of life. But the biodiversity crisis we are currently encountering isn’t just a loss of ...
• Introducing: Daniel MacArthur of Genetic Future
  Wired Science Blogs is delighted to welcome a new addition to our fleet of awesome: Daniel MacArthur of Genetic Future. A British postdoctoral genomics researcher by day, science blogger by night, Dan writes about the fast-moving world of human genetics and the companies offering to sell you inform ...
• Amateurs Find Hidden Gems in Space Photo Contest
  See Also: Best of a New Trove of Mind-Blowing Space Photos Spiral Galaxy Study Yields Super Sharp Images New Sharp Image of Violent Galactic Collision Reader Photo Gallery: Awesome DIY Astronomy The Making of a Mind-Blowing DIY Sun Photo
• New Study Finds No Sign of ‘First Habitable Exopla ...
  Things donât look good for Gliese 581g, the first planet found orbiting in the habitable zone of another star. The first official challenge to the small, hospitable world looks in the exact same data — and finds no significant sign of the planet. “For the time being, the world does not have data th ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• ACLU suing King County [Washington State] over can ...
  The ACLU of Washington filed a federal lawsuit against King County over the decision to cancel a bus ad that alleges Israeli war crimes. The lawsuit claims that King County violated the First... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
• Aluf Benn: Israel can’t stop Palestinian independe ...
  The 'diplomatic holding action' that Israel is conducting has enjoyed partial success, but the world is gradually becoming accustomed to the idea that Palestine will join the family of nations this... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Aisling Byrne: Building a police state in Palestin ...
  "If we are building a police state -- what are we actually doing here?" So asked a European diplomat responding to allegations of torture by the Palestinian security forces. The diplomat might well... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Palestinian military prosecutors vow to stop arres ...
  The Palestinian military prosecutor's office will stop detaining civilians, and civilians will no longer be tried by Palestinian military courts, according to a pledge made by senior officials in the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
• Student’s answer on civics test: Death to Arabs
  Israeli civics teacher: "When we have a discussion in class about equal rights, the class immediately gets out of control. The students attack us, the teachers, for being leftist and anti-Semitic,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Lithuania seeks regional debate on French warship ...
• 'Gas-for-fleet' terms to be agreed within 2 months
  The Russian and Ukrainian finance ministries will draw up a draft agreement within two months on the extension terms of the lease of the Sevastopol port to Russia, Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Tuesday.
• Russian parliament approves New START on 2nd readi ...
  The State Duma, the lower house of Russia's parliament, voted for ratification of a new strategic arms reduction deal with the United States on the second reading on Friday, setting its terms for approving the pact.
• Duma sets terms on Russia-U.S. arms deal ratificat ...
  The lower house of the Russian parliament on Friday approved amendments to a bill on the ratification of a news arms reduction deal with the United States.
• Duma committee recommends Russia-U.S. arms deal ra ...
  The foreign relations committee of the lower house of the Russian parliament on Wednesday recommended that a new arms reduction deal with the United States be approved in its second reading, committee head Konstantin Kosachyov said.

NewsWise

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• Cedars-Sinai Physical Medicine Chair Available to ...
  Richard V. Riggs, M.D., Medical Director and Chairman of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, is available to discuss rehabilitation after gunshot and other traumatic brain injuries.
• Couples Sometimes Communicate No Better than Stran ...
  Married people may think they communicate well with their partners, but psychologists have found that they don't always convey messages to their loved ones as well as they think -- and in some cases, the spouses communicate no better than strangers. The same communication problem also is true with ...
• iPad Animation Helps Assess Mobility in Elderly
  Mobility is linked to overall health in older adults, but there has been no standard, easy way to measure it. To solve the problem, two professors developed the Mobility Assessment Tool (MAT). It uses the iPad and video animation to assess physical mobility. The researchers envision physicians ev ...
• Study Looks at Drought Response in Grapes
  A student's scholarship-winning project at South Dakota State University may help scientists better understand how grapes and other plants respond to drought. The study could pay off in better production as plant breeders develop varieties for regions facing increased drought stress due to climate c ...
• Spike Reported in Number of People with HIV Having ...
  New research suggests that people infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) may be up to three times more likely to have a stroke compared to those not affected with HIV. The study is published in the January 19, 2011, online issue of Neurology(r), the medical journal of the American Academy ...

Natural Health News

• Dancing Merengue Dog
  Jose Fuentes and Carrie the dancing dog do the Merengue!
• Is America Becoming a Fascist Country?
  Fascism sounds like a word out of history, conjuring images of World War II. But the word, and its meaning, are creeping back into popular contemporary usage. Writer Naomi Wolf and outgoing Democratic Congressman John Hall have both warned that America may be creeping towards fascism -- Wolf points ...
• Curcumin Relieves Pain and Inflammation for Osteoa ...
  A study shows that a formulation of curcumin can relieve pain and increase mobility in patients with osteoarthritis.� It can also reduce a series of inflammatory markers. 100 patients with osteoarthritis were divided in two groups -- the first group was given the �best available treatment� and ...
• 99 Percent of Pregnant Women in U.S. Test Positive ...
  Virtually all pregnant women in the U.S. carry multiple chemicals in their bodies.� This chemical load includes some banned since the 1970�s, as well as others used in common products such as non-stick cookware, processed foods and personal care products. A new study marks the first time that t ...
• Common Sleep Drug Can Leave You Groggy and Clumsy
  Popular sleep drugs can leave people groggy and prone to stumbling, falling and confusion when they wake up.� Zolpidem (Ambien) in particular appears to act broadly in the brain and has a numbing effect for at least half an hour after waking. The drug is also sold under brand names such as Zolpimis ...

Antemedius

• 1997 Letter Warns Irish Bishops Not To Report Chil ...
  Picture courtesy of Rachmaninoff via Flikr Having grown up in a very Catholic family it pains me a little that the Church has been the focus of so many revelations of child abuse. That is more than balanced by my complete and total outrage that the Vatican and the entire Church hierarchy clearl ...
• Existing beyond Theory
  During the course of a normal week, quite a few articles roll through my email and get stuck in a file somewhere. Often I write something about them and try to share that as promptly as I can. Today's item is a research paper published in the Graduate Journal of Social Science this past December. ...
• Social Security: Beyond Red and Blue
  George Carlin said it bluntly a few years ago, and it was dismissed as comedy by more than a few who saw that it wasn't - who saw that he he was using the comedic stage as a platform to deliver a serious warning, to pass on the truth as he saw it clearly: They own you. They own everything. They own ...
• Blasphemy And Assassination - The Cost Of A State ...
  Yesterday the Governor of Punjab province was gunned down by one of his own bodyguards. The reason given by the assassin was that Salman Taseer was killed was the fact that he spoke out against Pakistan’s very strict blasphemy laws. As a secular and liberal politician he was a rarity in recent Pakis ...
• Why Pentagon Says MLK Would Love War Today
  According to the Pentagon's lawyer, Martin Luther King Jr., if alive today, would view the US war on Afghanistan as both the act of a Good Samaritan and as necessary self-defense. Jeh C. Johnson, the "Defense" Department's general counsel, said, on the one hand: "I believe that if Dr. King were aliv ...

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

• One Generation Before and After Martin Luther King
  by Roger Alford by Roger Alford I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table When company comes. Nobody’ll dare Say to me, “Eat in the kitchen,” Then. Besides, They’ ...
• OUP Law Yearbooks Available Online
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Oxford University Press has asked me to post the following announcement: Law Yearbooks from Oxford – Free Online Access until February 28th Since the start of January 2011 the law yearbooks from Oxford University Press, previously available only in print, ...
• States To Take a Stab at Birthright Citizenship
  by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Julia Preston’s lead story in yesterday’s NYT Times highlighted the shift to state governments as immigration battlegrounds.  Several are looking to be SB 1070 copycats.  I don’t think those will go anywhere in the face of quiet but intense opposition from the busi ...
• One Generation Before and After Martin Luther King
  by Roger Alford by Roger Alford I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table When company comes. Nobody’ll dare Say to me, “Eat in the kitchen,” Then. Besides, They’ ...
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• OUP Law Yearbooks Available Online
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Oxford University Press has asked me to post the following announcement: Law Yearbooks from Oxford – Free Online Access until February 28th Since the start of January 2011 the law yearbooks from Oxford University Press, previously available only in print, ...

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

• Climate of Fear
  Headline stories Truthout - #bases Greenwald - criminalizing reporting WH Press Secty change Klout Progress Energy to become lgst utility? Regular RSS SnapShot/Blogs I'm Following up + moreSubmitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• MURDER CAUGHT ON TAPE COVERED-UP BY ALMOST ALL POL ...
  Fianna Fail, Fine Gael & Labour Help Britain Get Away with Murder of Dubliners and Their Irish Constituents. Submitted by Brian Clarke to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Is Hydraulic Fracturing Responsible for Dead Birds ...
  This post explores the 500+ small earthquakes in AR in the last 6 months, the thousands of dead bird and fish and how they all fall within the Fayetteville Shale Play where there is ongoing hydraulic fracturing. Many maps, videos and links.Submitted by Jenni S. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
• Americas Next Failure: the Police State
  The War on Drugs has been ineffective for more than forty years. No one knows where a vast number of illegal immigrants even are. The CIA has been unable to locate Osama bin Laden after more than ten years of searching. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comme ...
• Is there Really Fecal matter in Soda Pop?
  According to a small sample study in the Roanoke Virginia area, several soda fountains were tested for bacterial contaminents. They tested positive for several types of bacteria including E. Coli, Serratia, Klebsiella, Staphylococcus, Candida,Submitted by Gabe B. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! ...

Angry Indian News

• Philippines Eyes Peace Pact with Reds in 3 Years a ...
  Philippines Eyes Peace Pact with Reds in 3 Years as Talks Resume - Bulatlat: "MANILA — The Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) have agreed... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Native women still quite vulnerable
  Native women still quite vulnerable: "Strikes with a Gun, a longtime educator, received tremendous support for her candidacy. She believes her identity as a woman and mother will bring much to the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Justice for victims of the conflict in Gaza and so ...
  Justice for victims of the conflict in Gaza and southern Israel | Amnesty International: "Between 27 December 2008 and 18 January 2009, Israel’s major military offensive on the Gaza Strip, codenamed... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• USDA Records Reveal Political Pressure to Allow Ch ...
  USDA Records Reveal Political Pressure to Allow Chinese Chicken Imports | CommonDreams.org: "WASHINGTON - January 19 - Food & Water Watch today submitted a Citizen Petition asking the U.S.... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Lancaster Unity: Koran-protest US pastor Terry Jon ...
  Lancaster Unity: Koran-protest US pastor Terry Jones excluded from UK: "Controversial US pastor Terry Jones has been excluded from the UK for the public good, the Home Office has said.The pastor had... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• Truth Squad Radio: No Child Left Behind?
  JS Rugg joins the show to discuss the sad state of education in this country. When third world countries produce children who are better educated than our children....we need to ask "why?" No Child Left Behind has been a disaster for the nation and our children are paying the price.
• “Trusted” Activist Groups Try to Regulate Silver a ...
  Not all groups supposedly fighting for our food freedom are who we think they are. If you really want an eye-opener, read the following article, and check out this link, which notes organizations on the Merck Pharmaceuticals dole.
• How the Food Safety Modernization Act will destroy ...
  It has made us start to totally re-look at our business plans and how we're going to sell our food. We're no longer going to sell wholesale, no longer going to sell to chefs or restaurants, it's consumer direct only.
• Signs of food toxicity in genetically engineered e ...
  “The safety claims made for these plants are not supported by existing data. On the contrary, there are alarming signs that the consumption of food derived from these plants could result in adverse health effects.
• 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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - Todd ...
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• Sex, death, and the noble American toad - Scott Bo ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and expand ...
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• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? - La ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Iran looks to expand corp of web watchers in 'soft ...
  ShareThisIran looks to expand corp of web watchers in 'soft war' with West --'We will have cyber police all over Iran.' 19 Jan 2011 Iran's top police chief envisions a new beat for his forces: patrolling cyberspace. The first web watchdog squads are planned in Tehran this month -- another step in Ir ...
• Bomb that could have killed hundreds found by poli ...
  ShareThisBomb that could have killed hundreds found by police on Martin Luther King parade route 19 Jan 2011 A backpack bomb which could have killed hundreds has been disabled after being left along the route of a Martin Luther King memorial day parade in the U.S. The device was spotted on the stree ...
• Wikileaks: US sought data on Israeli coded message ...
  ShareThisWikileaks: US sought data on Israeli coded messages 19 Jan 2011 The United States told its Middle East diplomats in 2008 to collect data on "encrypted Israeli communications" and create financial and "biometric" profiles of Palestinian leaders, Reuters reported on Wednesday, quoting a docum ...
• Study: 129 million have preexisting conditions
  ShareThisStudy: 129 million have preexisting conditions 18 Jan 2011 As many as 129 million Americans under age 65 have medical problems that are red flags for health insurers, according to an analysis that marks the government's first attempt to quantify the number of people at risk of being rejecte ...
• House set for GOP health care repeal vote
  ShareThisHouse set for GOP health care repeal vote --Measure is expected to pass Republican-led House 17 Jan 2011 The House of Representatives is set to vote on a repeal of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul this week, fulfilling a campaign promise of congressional Republicans and setting ...

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

• UN rights board calls for complete halt on Israeli ...
  And more news from Today in Palestine: Settlers/ Land, Property, Resource Theft & Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing IOA serves demolition notifications to owners of five tents The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) on Wednesday delivered demolition notices to five Palestinian families living in tent ...
• Macy Gray criticizes Israeli policy; asks if she s ...
  Macy Gray is reconsidering the concerts she has planned for Tel Aviv. On Facebook, Gray had the following for her fans: I'm booked for 2 shows in TelAviv. I'm getting alot of letters from activists urging/begging me to boycott by NOT performing in protest of Apartheid against the Palestinians. ...
• Citing ‘national security,’ coalition ...
  This is big. This is the new coalition to push the neocon Project for the New American Century into the dustbin of history. Fifty public figures, including commentators and former officials, have called on Obama to stand with the majority in the U.N. Security Council against the Israeli settlement p ...
• ‘Tears of Gaza’ showing tomorrow in L. ...
  I really want to see this movie, hopefully it's headed to New York sometime soon. Here's the info: A film screening of the documentary followed by a Q&A session with director Vibeke Løkkeberg [Norway]. Thursday, January 20, 2011 7:00 PM A51 Humanities Building UCLA From the event we ...
• State Declaration: The Palestinians’ agonizi ...
  The US and its Quartet partners want Palestinian-Israeli negotiations concluded by August 2011, coinciding with the date of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s plan to declare a state. To convey the complexity of the issue, and the Palestinians' fundamental dilemma in their quest for freedom f ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• VRM: Medical Industry Data Proves Influenza Vaccin ...
  The Influenza virus itself is constantly mutating from year to year. While mainstream doctors are traditionally divided, several prominent Studies have come forward in recent years challenging the Status Quo on the efficacy of the sacrosanct Flu shot & awakened an increasingly distrustful ...
• VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 3 – Synt ...
  For centuries humankind has depended on an inherent natural immunity to survive; adapting to environmental changes while overcoming mutable diseases, viruses, bacterial or biological threats & inter-species cross contamination. With the 21st Century advancement of high-tech laboratory scie ...
• 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 ...

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

• Death in the Corn: Part I of III
  Published: 15 September 2008 Helmand Province, Afghanistan The soldiers are living like animals at a little rat’s nest called FOB Gibraltar. They call it “Gib.” Named after the lynchpin of British naval dominance in the Mediterranean, this cluster of mud huts in the middle of hostile territory ...
• 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 ...
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• 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
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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

• In NYC Tonight: Cities As Green Engines
  Cities may account for two-thirds of global energy usage and over 70% of global carbon emissions, but we know they don't have to be enemies of the environment. That's the thrust of a panel discussion tonight at Baruch College that seeks to identify the ways that urban centers can serve as cl ...
• Weekday Vegetarian: Green Curry Noodles
  Photo: Kelly Rossiter I've been making a lot of Asian-style noodles lately, I guess in a quest to use up all the carrots and cabbage I have. I spent all morning thinking about what I would make for lunch, but nothing appealed to me so I went back to the noodles but today I made them with green ...
• So Far So Good for London's Bicycle 'Superhighways ...
  All Cities Should Make it Easier for Cyclists Brian has recently covered the success of London's 'bike superhighwa...Read the full story on TreeHugger
• Wind Turbines Might Help Crops Absorb More CO2, Fi ...
  Photo: Flickr, CC Beneficial Microclimate Impact According to the preliminary results from research done by DOE and University of Colorado scientists, wind turbines built in the middle of crop fields might be doing more than just producing electricity. Indeed, while the turbines don't produce ...
• Fox News Goes Fact Free on EPA Authority, Drilling ...
  photo via flickr The tone in Washington and in the mainstream media has changed, right? Pundits say we are moving toward a higher level of discourse. But what happens when facts don't matter, and history is re-written to fit an ideology? Take two examples from the past few days on Fox. In the f ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Migrants missing after rights case
  Malaysia deports three Burmese migrants who complained that company broke contract, while an additional two have since gone missing
• Ex-child soldier jailed for desertion
  Pegu man who enlisted at the age of 13 and later deserted is given a lengthy prison sentence despite practice being illegal in Burma
• Children shot in Karen crossfire
  Two children, including a 12-year-old, hospitalised in Payathonzu with bullet wounds sustained as they fled ongoing clashes
• Army abuse in Chin state ‘extraordinary’
  Report by medics says complaints of abuse by military on Chin civilians are widespread and may qualify as crimes against humanity
• Karen conflict intensifies
  Karen conflict intensifies

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Climate change may be responsible for the rise and ...
  Bad weather can always be relied upon to generate the odd moan, but now scientists have discovered that it could also be responsible for bringing down entire empires.
• Foreign insects threatening British gardens
  Four foreign insects are posing a serious threat to British gardens as they spread across the country, experts are warning.
• What was the role of warmists in the Queensland fl ...
  Australia was told to prepare for droughts as a result of climate change, and let down its guard against flooding, writes Christopher Booker.
• Pc Mark Kennedy: inquiry into police 'cover up' of ...
  The police watchdog launched an independent inquiry into Nottinghamshire Police amid claims officers covered up key evidence.
• Exam board accused of 'brainwashing' pupils with i ...
  Britain's largest exam board has been accused of "brainwashing" pupils by forcing them to use an inaccurate temperature graph that exaggerates the scale of global warming.

National Geographic | Environment

• Scientists Make Dozens of Storms in the Abu Dhabi ...
  A Swiss company’s claims to have created storm clouds in the desert are met with skepticism.
• Going "All The Way" With Renewable Energy?
  A massive build-out, rare earth minerals, and willpower needed for a 100 percent renewable future, two U.S. researchers say.
• Pictures: Mount Etna Erupts Overnight
  NoneSee this week's explosive nighttime spectacle from Europe's most active volcano—plus classic pictures from years, and centuries, gone by.
• Cholera and Cooperation Play Into Haiti Reforestat ...
  Ambitious efforts try to dry out the charcoal business, rebuild eroded hillsides, ease flooding, and improve water quality.
• PHOTOS: Six Long-Lost Haitian Frog Species Found
  NoneOn the one-year anniversary of Haiti's earthquake nightmare, scientists exploring the country's few remaining pristine forests find an abundance of frogs—including six species lost to science for nearly two decades.

Jurist - Legal Research

• Afghanistan president orders delay in seating of n ...
  [JURIST] Afghan President Hamid Karzai [official profile, JURIST news archive] on Wednesday announced a one-month postponement in the seating of the country's new parliament, following a request by a high court judicial tribunal asking for more time to look into allegations of fraud surrounding last ...
• US appeals court upholds University of Texas affir ...
  [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit [official website] unanimously ruled [opinion, PDF] Tuesday to uphold the affirmative action [JURIST news archive] policy of considering race in student admissions at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) [academic website]. The plaintiffs, two ...
• Supreme Court rules NASA background checks are con ...
  [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Wednesday unanimously overturned [opinion, PDF] a lower court's ruling [JURIST report] in NASA v. Nelson [Cornell LII backgrounder; JURIST report] and upheld the background checks that NASA uses for employees of companies worki ...
• Rights group reports human rights abuses and calls ...
  [JURIST] The human rights group Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) [advocacy website] released a report [PHP report, text; press release] Wednesday detailing human rights abuses in Myanmar. The report revealed eight violations that fall under the purview of the International Criminal Court (ICC) [off ...
• Israel arrests, seeks to extradite accused Bosnia ...
  [JURIST] A judge for the Jerusalem District Court on Wednesday ordered suspected Bosnian war criminal Aleksander Cvetkovic held in jail while the Israeli government attempts to extradite him to Bosnia to stand trial for crimes committed during the 1992-1995 Bosnian Civil War [JURIST news archive]. T ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Was Herman Cain Right About Health Care?
  A couple new developments on the Herman Cain front. First, Dave Weigel of Slate has posted his own profile of Cain, for which he went and read Cain's motivational/leadership books. It's good stuff. (The profile, that is--I can't vouch for the books.) Second, a number of people have written in about ...
• Yes, Repealing Health-Care Reform Is Popular
  House Republicans are voting to repeal the health-care overhaul bill today, and the Democratic message machine has whirred into 4th gear or so, easing up just shy of the seizure-inducing pace of spin seen during campaign season. People don't want the law repealed, Democrats say. The GOP posturing i ...
• Remembering Sargent Shriver: LIFE Photos
  Sargent Shriver, founder of the Peace Corps, leader of the War on Poverty, and brother-in-law to President John F. Kennedy died yesterday at the age of 95. Yesterday, Atlantic deputy editor and Shriver's biographer Scott Stossel reflected on the verve and generous spirit that defined his life: ...
• Geithner Asked to Testify Before GOP Committee
  Darrell Issa, oversight don of the 112th Congress, has summoned U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to testify on Capitol Hill for a hearing later this month. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which Issa now chairs, will convene on Jan. 26 for a hearing on "Bailouts and the Fore ...
• With GOP Repeal Effort, Democrats See Chance for a ...
  Democrats doggedly pursued and proudly passed a large-scale reform of the nation's health insurance system in 2010, only to take a drubbing at the polls last November. But now, in the face of Republican efforts to repeal the law, Democrats see an opportunity to take advantage of a "do-over" with the ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] Canada at War in Iraq! New 54-page COAT re ...
• [COAT] Success! AntiCANSEC arms-bazaar campaign - ...
• [COAT] Raging Grans video: CANSEC-NO CANSEX-YES!&q ...
• [COAT] Arms Bazaar in Ottawa Citizen, letters-to-e ...
• [COAT] Oppose the CANSEC War Machine! - coat

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

• US and Vietnam sign nuclear energy agreement | Ass ...
• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious blast ...
• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms tre ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's energy ...
• More tritium found at Vt. Yankee, NRC plans closed ...

Tikun Olam

• Israeli Settler Right Bullies Rabbi Ascherman, Pro ...
  The Israeli settler far-right, as part of its campaign of vitriol and intimidation is stalking Rabbi Arik Ascherman, founder of Rabbis for Human Rights.  They will be demonstrating outside his home later today (Wednesday) against his alleged campaign to destroy Jewish sovereignty over all of histor ...
• Russian Leader Visits Palestine, Recognizes New St ...
  Israel has developed a truly innovative way to avoid bad news.  When the most prominent country in the world so far to recognize a Palestinian state sends its president to Palestine to do so, you can magically pretend the event never happened.  All you have to do is have a foreign ministry strike. ...
• Barak: In the Land of Self-Regard
  Ehud Barak’s self-regard knows no bounds.  But one thing about him is endlessly amusing: he has no sense of irony.  Take this wonderful statement from the Jerusalem Post: Barak said that the faction’s agenda will be “first of all the state, then the party, then the media, and only then ourselves.” ...
• Rabbi Rotter’s False Claims
  Within the past hour, Channel 10 Israel news aired a segment (see YouTube Hebrew video above) on our expose of Jerusalem police officer Meir Rotter’s incitement to violence against the non-violent demonstrators at Sheikh Jarrah.  In the segment, the reporter called this blog the “Wikileaks of Israe ...
• Barak Leaving Labor: Rats Leaving Sinking Ship
  Put this under the category: the Mystifying Doing the Inscrutable.  Ehud Barak will announce that he and four other members of the Labor Knesset delegation will leave the party and form a new faction to be called–get this–”Independence” (other suggested names, “The New Center,” the “Jewish Democrat ...

Ode Magazine

• 2011 Year of the rabbit: A time for pause
  By: Chintana According to eastern astrology, 2011 is the Year of the Rabbit. It is said that this will be a temperate time with unhurried pace, suitable for introspection and respite. I’m not one for fortune telling but isn’t this a nice thought? Seems l ...
• Learning by accident
  By: Rosalia There was a time I lived like a carefree woman who read bad news, shook her head, and went about her usual day. I felt secure in the world, and the knowledge that I controlled my own destiny. That time ended on April 13, 2002. Before then, I ...
• 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

• China Runs an Ad for China When It's President Vis ...
  On the day of China's President Hu Jintao's arrival to the US, they run this ad on CNN and who knows where else.
• Anti-Torture Activists Blockade DOJ, Demand Meetin ...
  Twenty-two anti-torture activists are blockading the 9th Street entrance to the Department of Justice, preventing vehicles from exiting the DoJ, while police wait to arrest them.
• The Issa Man Cometh
  Whenever the gavel of the House Government Oversight Committee is wielded by someone from the party that does not control the White House, subpoenas fly like the Swallows over Capistrano. Now that Californian Darrell is in charge of the committee, he is poised to become President Obama's "worst nig ...
• Iowa Supremes Under Attack
  Conservatives in Iowa are attacking the Supreme Court over their unaminous decision to allow Gay marriage.
• Stuxnet: A Violation of US Computer Security Law
  Placing intelligence operatives inside computer security management positions can always result in the use of computers for sabotage and intelligence. Stuxnet may be the culmination of such infiltration of the computer security profession.

Switchboard

• Gophers and Berries and Bees, Oh My: One Farmer's ...
  It sounds like something out of a Looney Tunes episode. An exasperated farmer (we’ll call him Bob), slings his heavy shovel over one shoulder and tiptoes carefully into his blueberry patch. He kneels on the damp soil, squinting as he peers between the thick rows of flowering bushes. As ...
• "Growing Wealthier" report shows how smart growth ...
  Guiding the growth and development of cities and regions in order to make efficient use of land, take advantage of accessible locations, and provide transportation choices enhances community prosperity and generates economic benefits for local businesses, households and governments, ac ...
• Energizing efficiency in the U.S.-China relationsh ...
  Yesterday, before Chinese President Hu Jintao’s plane even hit the tarmac, senior energy experts from both countries gathered to inaugurate the U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center (CERC), the latest in a series of initiatives building on the historic November 2009 summit between Pr ...
• US-China: Global Warming Work Ahead on Heels of Pr ...
  Chinese President Hu Jintao  is in D.C. for a State Dinner with President Obama and for a series of meetings over the next three days.  They have a lot on their plate (both literally and figuratively), so climate change won’t be the only thing that they discuss.  But you can sure bet t ...
• Sen. Scott Brown: Stand Up for Clean Air, Not Poll ...
  A lot of people in Massachusetts suffer from asthma, the disease that makes it hard to breathe, sends kids gasping for breath to the emergency room and can saddle families with huge medical bills. In fact, estimates from the American Lung Association are that over 500,000 kids and near ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Trying to appear to be delivering on a promise
  Over at National Review I learn that Eric Cantor insists that Republicans will do “everything [they] can to delay and defund” health care reform because they are “about trying to deliver on our commitment, to make sure that the Obamacare bill does not take full hold and effect.”  Why doesn’t he wan ...
• Lazy IT&P Blogging
  Lots happening in information-technology-and-politics this past week; lots happening with the start of the semester too, so not much time to blog. Here’s a run-down of things I wish I had time to say more about. Go crazy. 1) If you’re not already, you want to follow what’s going on with DOJ and Twi ...
• GOP discovers filibusters are wrong as a matter of ...
  A bill to repeal the health care law drew the full force of both parties Tuesday as debate on the measure opened in the House, launching a two-year battle over President Barack Obamaâs signature domestic achievement. Ahead of the vote Wednesday, House Republican leaders pressed a new line of attack ...
• Haiti Earthquake Aftermath
  My latest WPR column is about ongoing political unrest in Haiti: Ideally, the U.S.-led intervention was meant to go down as a Western-hemisphere version of the 2005 tsunami relief operation, in which the U.S. Navy saved thousands of lives and contributed to stability in the wake of disaster. During ...
• Drug violence
  Read the original story. Then watch the video: Subsequent reporting. See also Radley Balko. Related posts:Joe Biden, Drug Warrior Drug War v. Civil Liberties II When Exactly is Violence “Gratuitous”? Related posts:Joe Biden, Drug Warrior Drug War v. Civil Liberties II When Exactly is Violence ...

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

• Report Shows High Speed Rail Potential
• Sprint To Connect ECOtality EV Chargers
• Concept Solar Bag Replaces Your Laptop
• Wind Industry Seeks ‘WindMade’ Label
• Companies Team Up On Home Energy System

National Law Journal | U.S.

• LABOR & EMPLOYMENT: Mobile technology blurs work a ...
  Courts have yet to rule on overtime issue, but employers should address potential liability.
• LABOR & EMPLOYMENT: The SEC proposes regulations f ...
  Lawyers, accountants and compliance officials would not be eligible for whistleblower bounties.
• Adversaries' opening statements in Bratz trial pre ...
  About a decade ago, Barbie began losing market share in the high-value fashion doll industry after a small-time competitor, MGA Entertainment Inc., stole trade secrets and the designer at Mattel Inc. who had come up with the idea for the wildly popular Bratz dolls, John Quinn, Mattel's lawyer, told ...
• Greenberg Traurig loses attempt to reinstate firm ...
  Greenberg Traurig has lost a bid to reinstate attorneys who were disqualified from defending the law firm in a civil RICO suit alleging it took kickbacks related to bogus tax shelters.
• 1st Circuit: Plaintiffs in bedbug case deserve new ...
  An exterminator hired to remove plaintiffs' bedbugs may testify at trial without filing an official expert witness report, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit has ruled. That's because he was not retained by the plaintiffs' law firm in the capacity of an expert.

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

• Repealing Obamacare: Remarks by Congressman Tom Mc ...
  The CBO warns that this law will increase average private premiums by $2,100 within five years above what they otherwise would have been without Obamacare.
• FightZone TV To Sponsor AOF MMA Expo At Florida St ...
  'Fusion' will be the 11th major MMA event held by Art Of Fighting in Florida. Promoter, Nathan Smith, commenting on the growing mainstream popularity of the sport says 'Art of Fighting has stayed true to its Florida roots and is now hosting the f
• Loyalists of Gbagbo Open Fire Towards UN Security ...
  Deploring the repeated acts of aggression against its patrols, the UN Operation in C�te d'Ivoire (UNOCI) reported today that its security forces stationed at the Pullman Hotel were waiting for the arrival of the AU Emissary, Kenya's Prime Minister
• White House Project Founded By Marie Wilson Appoin ...
  Ever since she accepted the Girl of the Year Award in eighth grade, Tiffany Dufu knew that she wanted to make a profound impact. Raised in the Pacific Northwest, the daughter of a homemaker and a minister, Ms. Dufu was an early feminist who challeng
• UN Reports Former Haitian Leader's Return Raises I ...
  There are major issues surrounding Mr. Duvalier and the considerable range of human rights abuses that took place in Haiti during the 15 years that he was in power, the spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

environment 360

• Groundwater Overuse May Make Arsenic More Common i ...
  A century of exploitation of groundwater supplies has drawn down water tables across Vietnam, making it difficult to avoid water contaminated with arsenic even at deeper depths, according to a new study. In tests of 512 private wells reaching depths of 10 to 50 meters (33 to 164 feet), researchers f ...
• Can We Trust Climate Models? Increasingly, the Ans ...
  Forecasting what the Earth’s climate might look like a century from now has long presented a huge challenge to climate scientists. But better understanding of the climate system, improved observations of the current climate, and rapidly improving computing power are slowly leading to more reliable m ...
• U.S. Revokes Permit For Biggest Mountaintop Remova ...
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has revoked a permit for a large mountaintop removal mining project in West Virginia, saying it would use “destructive and unsustainable mining practices” that would threaten the health and water supplies of the surrounding Appalachian communities. Whil ...
• Innovative Local Farming Key in Global Hunger Figh ...
  The path toward alleviating worldwide hunger and poverty will more likely be found by focusing on small-scale local initiatives than simply producing more food, a new study says. In its annual State of the World report, the Worldwatch Institute describes successful programs to combat hunger, poverty ...
• China to Impose Targets on Regions to Cut Carbon I ...
  The Chinese government will impose regional emissions targets as part of a national drive to cut the economy’s carbon intensity by 2020, according to a report. While China is studying the potential of a domestic carbon market to achieve its carbon targets, a working group will also be established to ...

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

• Polish PM: stop politicizing presidential plane cr ...
  Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk told his country's parliament that political games should not affect the pursuit for the truth in the investigation into the plane crash that killed the former president.
• WikiLeaker found guilty of breaking Swiss banking ...
  A Swiss banker who claims to have handed to WikiLeaks data on tax evaders has been found guilty in Zurich and sentenced to a fine of over 6,000 Swiss francs ($6,000).
• Medvedev stepped into the same river thrice
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev celebrated Epiphany by dipping into the Jordan River while visiting Jordan as a part of his trip to the Middle East.
• Dummy NGOs exploit charity movement in India
  Some NGOs in India stand accused of earning a living by pretending to be a charity. A number of schools set up to help the poorest of the poor are allegedly turning out to be fakes.
• Georgian lawyers face government harassment
  Lawyers in Georgia claim they can no longer work unhindered for fear of risking harassment, or even imprisonment, from the government, simply for trying to protect their clients.

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

• Quantum DNA
  It’s been written that photosynthesis might be a quantum process. Now a paper appears that claims DNA itself is a quantum process: A Nobel Prize winning biologist has ignited controversy after publishing details of an experiment in which a fragment of DNA appeared to ‘teleport’ or imprint itself be ...
• The Paracast: Jerome Clark
  This week’s Paracast with Gene Steinberg and co-host Chris O’Brien features Jerome Clark, author of âThe UFO Encyclopediaâ and âHidden Realms, Lost Civilizations, and Beings from Other Worlds.” After listening to this interview, I was kind of surprised by a researcher in present day ufology who sti ...
• 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 ...

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

• More States Join Obamacare Legal Fight
  “Six more states joined a lawsuit in Florida against President Obamaâs health care overhaul on Tuesday, meaning more than half of the country is challenging the law.” (New York Times) Now the federal courts will rule on the scope of federal power. FEE Timely Classic “The Health Care Debate Was ‘Mean ...
• Obama, Hu to Discuss U.S. Exports
  “[W]hen [Chinese] President Hu Jintao walks into the Eisenhower Executive Office Building with President Obama on Wednesday to face a group of 18 American and Chinese business leaders, much of the clash will be about a new economic battlefield â inside China itself. A series of trade restrictions im ...
• Comcast Permitted to Buy NBC – with Conditions
  “Federal regulators on Tuesday blessed Comcast’s $30 billion acquisition of NBC Universal, imposing a slew of conditions on everything from competition with rivals to the price of Internet service for poor families out of concern that the firm’s vast sweep could harm consumers.” (Washington Post) In ...
• Bureaucrats Keep Us Safe?
  Once people believe that government agents protect us, there can be no end to the avenues of “protection” bureaucrats will offer.
• Growth-Stunting Regs to Get Second Look
  “President Barack Obama will order a review of U.S. regulations to remove or overhaul those that inhibit economic expansion without helping consumers, advancing his outreach to the business community.” (Bloomberg) And while heâs at it, how about all the business privileges? FEE Timely Classic “The P ...

Teaching Online Journalism

• HTML and CSS Resources for Teaching
  Every year around this time, I update the resources I use in teaching my advanced online design class. I know there are a million lists like these online. I try to keep mine short, simple and current. Also, I’m not teaching programmers or graphic design majors. My students are journalists. CSS B ...
• 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 ...

Facing South

• Scarce jobs and broke budgets: What can Southern s ...
  If anyone needed evidence that the Great Recession is still reverberating through the economy, consider the situation state legislatures face as they come into session this month. Put together, states have a collective $160 billion budget shortfall for the current fiscal year. And some states are ...
• Big Oil sends regulatory wish list to Congress
  The new head of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform recently invited companies and industry groups to submit a list of regulations they'd like to see scrapped. The responses have been coming in -- but the American public isn't allowed to see them yet. That's because Chairman Dar ...
• The gayest of times, the worst of times
  By Bob Moser, Texas ObserverBobby Beltran was already having a blue Christmas. Because of his job, the 26-year-old was missing his tight-knit family's celebration back home in Brownsville for the first time. After work on Christmas night, to cheer himself up, Beltran joined some friends and ...
• State of King's Dream: Black America's economic ni ...
  As we celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it's important to take stock: Where does our country stand in realizing King's dream of a more just South and country? Historians like Michael Honey have documented how, in King's later years, the civil rights martyr broadened his ...
• 'It is love that will save our world'
  With the American people still struggling to make sense of the recent shootings in Arizona and the role that violent political rhetoric may have played, we revisit the words of the minister from Georgia who we honor this weekend. Following is the text of a sermon Martin Luther King, Jr. d ...

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 (
• 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
• 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

How Can I Recycle This ?

• Our five favourite ways to use up leftover turkey
  It’s easy to stop yourself from, say, cooking too much pasta or rice, but it’s harder to cook just the right amount of turkey since they’re a fixed (or at least minimum) size. Leftovers are no bad thing though – they just get a bit dull if it’s turkey sandwiches every day… Individual turkey and [... ...
• How can I reuse or recycle a broken plastic sledge ...
  We were walking in the woods down the road the other day when we got a bit overexcited – there was a plastic sledge in the undergrowth under a holly bush! We’re far too grown-up to buy a sledge for us to play with but a found one? weeeeeee! When we pulled it out, we [...]
• Reducing waste after Christmas – our top tip ...
  So the big day is nearly upon us again. Hopefully you’ve already been busy upcycling random stuff into Christmas presents and recycled Christmas decorations – it’s easy to keep the green theme going after Christmas too. Give away unwanted gifts & replaced items Don’t wait until you spring clean – de ...
• How can I reuse or recycle old brooms, brushes & r ...
  Following on from last week’s plastic dustbins and Monday’s broken ironing boards, Philip also suggested Brooms and rakes. I don’t know why, but people often throw out orphaned handles and heads of various garden tools. I simply play match maker. You can’t have too many garden tools on a farm. Recon ...
• Reducing, reusing and recycling links round-up
  It’s been a while since I did a round-up of some of my favourite reducing, reusing and recycling links so without further ado… I’m often amazed what fab things people can make from old toilet roll tubes and these are no exception – fake wrought iron artwork. A great idea – I’m going to make [...]

Mondoweiss

• UN rights board calls for complete halt on Israeli ...
  And more news from Today in Palestine: Settlers/ Land, Property, Resource Theft & Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing IOA serves demolition notifications to owners of five tents The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) on Wednesday delivered demolition notices to five Palestinian families living in tent ...
• Macy Gray criticizes Israeli policy; asks if she s ...
  Macy Gray is reconsidering the concerts she has planned for Tel Aviv. On Facebook, Gray had the following for her fans: I'm booked for 2 shows in TelAviv. I'm getting alot of letters from activists urging/begging me to boycott by NOT performing in protest of Apartheid against the Palestinians. ...
• Citing ‘national security,’ coalition ...
  This is big. This is the new coalition to push the neocon Project for the New American Century into the dustbin of history. Fifty public figures, including commentators and former officials, have called on Obama to stand with the majority in the U.N. Security Council against the Israeli settlement p ...
• ‘Tears of Gaza’ showing tomorrow in L. ...
  I really want to see this movie, hopefully it's headed to New York sometime soon. Here's the info: A film screening of the documentary followed by a Q&A session with director Vibeke Løkkeberg [Norway]. Thursday, January 20, 2011 7:00 PM A51 Humanities Building UCLA From the event we ...
• State Declaration: The Palestinians’ agonizi ...
  The US and its Quartet partners want Palestinian-Israeli negotiations concluded by August 2011, coinciding with the date of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s plan to declare a state. To convey the complexity of the issue, and the Palestinians' fundamental dilemma in their quest for freedom f ...

Media Consortium

• The Newsonomics of 2011 news metrics to watch » Ni ...
• Gallery: 15 iPad news apps
  Thinking about creating an iPad app for your newsroom? Want to see what other news media have come up with? Below are screengrabs of several news apps from newspapers, magazines radio, television, and online-only news websites.
• Five Months on Tumblr as Seen Through Pummelvision ...
• The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: After DREAM ...
• Mobile TV Coming to 20 U.S. Markets by 2011
  The Mobile Content Venture (MCV), a joint effort by U.S. broadcasters, recently announced its roadmap for its mobile TV network. The roll-out plans to have 20 U.S. markets covered by the end of 2011. And we should see mobile TV-compatible devices by the second half of 2011. Could it be true? A real, ...

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 )

• Coal mining companies fight back against permit ve ...
  US coal mining companies have scored some points in their fight against the Environmental Protection Agency’s tough stance on mountaintop mining. A federal judge has ruled in a preliminary decision that the EPA may have overstepped its legal authority by imposing strict new environmental standard ...
• Britain's budget woes continue
  It was a sunny morning here in London, all the better to lift the moods of the research council chiefs called before House of Commons select committee on science and technology. The two-hour hearing covered a lot of familiar ground for those of us who have covered the British budget crunch recent ...
• Nautilus Minerals pushes on in the deep-sea minefi ...
  Nautilus Minerals has obtained the world’s first lease for deep-sea mining, it announced this week. The 20-year lease from Papua New Guinea will allow the Toronto-based company to push on with its plans to start actually mining a 59-square-kilometre area north of Rabaul for copper and gold some t ...
• Travelling the petabyte highway is harder than it ...
  For the past year, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, has been gathering data at an astonishing rate. Just as astonishing is what happens to that data after they are gathered: They are fed through a global computing system known as the Grid, and distribu ...
• Travelling the petabyte highway is harder than it ...
  For the past year, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, has been gathering data at an astonishing rate. Just as astonishing is what happens to that data after they are gathered: They are fed through a global computing system known as the Grid, and distribu ...

new geography

• Agglomeration Vs. Isolation for Science Based Econ ...
  Earlier this month President Obama signed the reauthorization of the COMPETES Act, which provides federal funding for science initiatives aimed at enhancing economic competitiveness. In addition to shoring up agencies like the National Science Foundation, the bill called on the Department of Commerc ...
• Rise of the Hans
  When Chinese President Hu Jintao comes to Washington this week, there aren't likely to be many surprises: Hu and Barack Obama will probably keep their conversation to a fairly regulated script, focusing on trade and North Korea and offering the expected viewpoints on both. But seen from a different ...
• Tampa to Orlando High-Speed Rail: Keeping Promises ...
  Florida's Tampa to Orlando high-speed rail project could be barreling down the tracks toward taxpayer obligations many times the $280 million currently advertised. That is the conclusion of my Reason Foundation report, The Tampa to Orlando High-Speed Rail Project: Florida Taxpayer Risk Assessment. ...
• Presidential Travel: Around the World in Eighteen ...
  As a corrective for the struggles of American diplomacy, I am surprised that no one has proposed mothballing Air Force One. The jet of state is almost the perfect symbol of modern presidents, who fly around the world as if on a magic carpet, but come home with little more than passport stamps. In re ...
• Self-Employment Key to Expanding Rural America’s R ...
  In many ways, these are the best of times for rural America. Rising commodity prices for food, fiber and energy have revived the economy in much of the nation’s heartland. But still, many rural communities still are losing population, particularly among the young, and suffering unacceptably high rat ...

GM Watch

• Poor countries urged to get ready for synthetic bi ...
• Label GM food: Our right to know - petition
• What the Greens got right
• GM crops to be planted in Britain again this year ...
• Monsanto's Roundup triggers over 40 plant diseases ...

spiked

• Why it should be easier to take the abortion pill
  BPAS’ chief executive explains why she is taking the UK Department of Health to court over early medical abortion.
• Let teachers get on with teaching
  Politicians need to understand that the sole role of a school ought to be to transmit knowledge to the young.
• It’s no surprise to see a police agent go gr ...
  The bizarre tale of PC Mark Kennedy reveals some unflattering home truths about both the British state and the eco-protest movement.
• Abuse and neglect are not the norm
  The main problems faced by social workers today are caused by society’s suspicion of the adult-child relationship.
• The myth of an American ‘gun culture’
  Why the constitutional enshrinement of guns as a check on tyranny really terrifies the liberal elite.

Cryptogon

• Utah City May Use Blimp as Anti-Crime Spy in the S ...
  Via: Reuters: A proposed unmanned floating airship surveillance system is being hailed by city officials in Ogden, Utah as one way to fight crime in its neighborhoods. “We believe it will be a deterrent to crime when it is out and about and will help us solve crimes more quickly when they do occur,” ...
• Smartphones: Radio Firmware Vulnerability Allows A ...
  Via: InfoWorld: More than three years after the iPhone was first hacked, computer security experts think they’ve found a whole new way to break into mobile phones — one that could become a big headache for Apple, or for smartphone makers using Google’s Android software. In a presentation set for nex ...
• Not The Onion: NSA Turns to Smart Phones for Recru ...
  Via: Defense Systems: Having a smart phone may give you an advantage if you’re looking for a job with the National Security Agency. The agency on Jan. 13 announced the launch of two new smartphone applications that are part of NSA’s largest hiring effort in recent years. The NSA Career Links Smartph ...
• JTF2 Command ‘Encouraged’ War crimes, ...
  Via: CBC: A member of Canada’s elite special forces unit says he felt his peers were being “encouraged” by the Canadian Forces chain of command to commit war crimes in Afghanistan, according to new documents obtained by CBC News. The documents from the military ombudsman’s office show the member of ...
• What Is Plan B if China Dumps Its U.S. Debt? Try t ...
  Your what hurts? Via: Reuters: When borrowing money it’s always good to have a Plan B in case a big creditor pulls the plug. That should be true whether the sum is a few thousand dollars or about a trillion, the size of the United States government’s debt to China. With Chinese President Hu Jintao [ ...

The Economic Collapse

• George Soros: The United States Must Stop Resistin ...
  In the video you are about to see, George Soros talks about "the creation of a New World Order", he discusses the need for a "managed decline" of the U.S. dollar and he talks at length of the global need for a true world currency. So just who is George Soros? Well, he [...]
• The Shadow Banking System: A Third Of All The Weal ...
  You and I live in a totally different world than the ultra-rich and the international banking elite do.  Many of them live in a world where they simply do not pay income taxes.  Today, it is estimated that a third of all the wealth in the world is held in offshore banks.  So why is ...
• 17 National Debt Statistics Which Prove That We Ha ...
  What we have done to future generations over the past 30 years is absolutely criminal.  30 years ago the U.S. national debt was a bit under one trillion dollars, and at that time it was considered a huge national crisis.  Today, the national debt is 14 times larger and the years ahe ...
• Almost Everything Is A Crime In America Now: 14 Of ...
  Doesn't it seem like almost everything is becoming a crime in America now?  Americans are being arrested and charged with crimes for doing things like leaving dog poop on the ground, opening up Christmas presents early, not recycling properly, farting in class and having brown lawns ...
• The More Americans That Go On Food Stamps The More ...
  JP Morgan is the largest processor of food stamp benefits in the United States.  JP Morgan has contracted to provide food stamp debit cards in 26 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.  JP Morgan is paid for each case that it handles, so that means that the more Americans that go ...

Desertification

• The Not Forgotten International Family Garden Proj ...
  These photos, taken in February-April 2010 in some of the family gardens in the Saharawis refugee camps near Tindouf (S.W. Algeria), show that the former UNICEF-project, nowadays called “The Not Forgotten International Family Garden Project”, is still a remarkable success … Continue reading →
• A genetic mutation that allows a plant to better e ...
  Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110111141347.htm Gene Helps Plants Use Less Water Without Biomass Loss ScienceDaily (Jan. 18, 2011) â Purdue University researchers have found a genetic mutation that allows a plant to better endure drought without losing biomass, a discovery th ...
• The world is at risk of losing many of its tropica ...
  Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101004151646.htm Saving Tropical Forests and Improving Farming Technology ScienceDaily (Jan. 19, 2011) â In a warming 21st century, tropical forests will be at risk from a variety of threats, especially the conversion to cropland to sustain a … ...
• To mitigate the devastating effects of recurrent d ...
  Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?Reportid=91666 KENYA: Act now to mitigate drought effects, say agencies NAIROBI/ISIOLO, 19 January 2011 (IRIN) – Kenya can best mitigate the devastating effects of recurrent drought by strengthening the livestock sector so that it becomes a viable … Cont ...
• No drought or desertification on my windowsill (Wi ...
  Just a moment without the problems of drought, desertification and poverty ? Relax and enjoy some photos of a beautiful orchid  at my windowsill : http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=111117&id=1214065827&l=e172914752

The Paper Trail

• Customers Close Accounts to Protest Wall Street, A ...
  The death blow for Michael Dalrymple’s Phoenix eco-friendly building supply company was the credit freeze that paralyzed the banking system and the nation in the fall of 2008.
• On Capitol Hill, the More Things Change …
  It didn’t take long for some new House Republicans to decide that inside-the-Beltway wisdom is essential after all. Many have hired tried-and-true Capitol Hill veterans as their chiefs of staff.
• TARP Watchdog Sounds Alarm About “Too Big To ...
  For U.S. banks, bigger is still better despite the financial reform law’s attempt to rein in “too big to fail” institutions, a government watchdog says.
• House Republican Pledges to Rein In Regulators
  A prominent Republican critic of the sweeping Dodd-Frank financial reform law says he will make sure the scores of regulations now being written do not create “a sea of bureaucratic red tape” for small businesses.
• Following Record Temperatures in 2010, Lobbyists L ...
  New data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released today showing that 2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest year on record is almost certain to re-ignite debate on both sides of the climate issue. Already, influencers (many highlighted in a 2010 report by the Internationa ...

backofthebook.ca

• Gervais’ Gay Joke Goes Awry
  By Rachel Krueger I don’t think Ricky Gervais is a homophobe.  But in his Golden Globes opening monologue he delivered a right zinger that was entirely predicated on "gay" being an insult.  Referring to Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor in I Love You, Phillip Morris, he quipped,  ‘Two heterosexual act ...
• Faggots don’t like censorship
  By Dave Brindle We want our/We want our/We want our faggot in the lyrics. Is it censorship or sensitive to our times that the old biddies on the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council have designated the Dire Straits '80s classic "Money for Nothing" unacceptable for play on Canadian radio becaus ...
• Editing for nothing for Dire Straits
  By Frank Moher You will have heard that an American publishing house has plans for an edition of Huckleberry Fiinn in which the character "N***** Jim" is to be renamed "Slave Jim." Now comes word that the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has ruled that the song "Money for Nothing" by Dire ...
• I Don’t Need a Motorola Xoom Tablet PC
  by Eric Pettifor Ok, I'm starting to want a tablet. No, not the iPad for which I expressed my underwhelmedness back in February of 2010, but for the Motorola Xoom to be released this quarter, perhaps even as soon as next month. What's so great about the Xoom? Well, ...
• 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 ...

Worldnews

• Oklahoma lawmaker proposes ban on texting whi ...
  � Oklahoman �� Leave a comment OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) � Texting while driving would be illegal in Oklahoma under a bill being proposed in the House....
• Pennsylvania Car Accident Attorney Says Drive ...
  Scranton, PA (PRWEB) January 19, 2011 Winter is showing no signs of letting up as it batters Pennsylvania and the Northeast, and motorists must be ready for the physical and legal hazards the harsh weather brings, says Pennsylvania personal injury attorneyJ. Christopher Munley. “Bad weather mak ...
• How to make nacho casserole
  Ingredients: * 1 can(s) (10 3/4 ounces) Cheddar cheese soup * 1/2 cup(s) low-fat (1%) milk * 1 jar(s) (16 ounces)...
• Wall St has worst drop in 2 months on banks, ...
  NEW YORK: The S&P 500 suffered its biggest decline in nearly two months on Wednesday as disappointing results from Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo put a damper on the rally. The Nasdaq fell more than 1 per cent, its biggest daily per centage loss since Nov. 16, as more disappointment in earnings ...
• Spike in world food prices: It's more than ba ...
  Of all the world headlines that Sen. Richard Lugar could have highlighted this week – the visit of China’s president in Washington, for instance, or the revolt in Arab Tunisia – the most burning issue for him was ... alfalfa. The plant, used for animal feed, was the surprising topic of the sena ...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embedded ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Daily Briefing—15th-16th Sept 2010
  News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
• Report: U.S. Troops ‘Still Killing Civilians’ in I ...
  A U.S.-Iraqi night raid results in the deaths of eight civilians weeks after U.S. combat operations were announced as over.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any Time ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Because the System’s Not Rigged Enough for Cops an ...
  Kevin Carson on the criminal injustice system 'shrills' pushing the narrative that the letter of the law aides criminals against so-called 'crime fighters'.

MY Daily Apple

• Colder temperatures, more heart attacks
  When temperatures dip during cold snaps, your body notices.
• PROGESTERONEinjection [Hikma Farmaceutica]
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• ABILIFYtablet [REMEDYREPACK INC. ]
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• Well: Tim Gunn's Advice for Making It Work
  In his role as mentor on the fashion reality show "Project Runway," Tim Gunn listens, consoles, advises and motivates the contestants. Now the fashion guru is offering his sage advice on how the rest of us can "make it work." (Source: NYT Health)
• Observatory: Humans, Like Animals, Behave Fearless ...
  A patient with rare brain damage is unafraid and incautious.

Common Dreams

• Swiss Banker Rudolf Elmer Convicted Over WikiLeaks ...
  A Swiss banker who publicised private client data on WikiLeaks was found guilty today of breaching strict banking secrecy and threatening former colleagues, but was given only a suspended fine.The judge acquitted Rudolf Elmer on charges he sought $50,000 (£31,250) for returning client data to former ...
• White House Takes Offensive Against Health Care Re ...
  by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium bloggerThis week, House Republicans will hold a vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The bill is expected to pass the House, where the GOP holds a majority, but stall in the Democratic-controlled Senate. In the meantime, the symbolic vote is giving both ...
• Big Coal's Call to Arms? Should Feds Stop West Vir ...
  by Jeff BiggersWhat happened to the new era of civility? Less than two weeks since the Tucson shooting tragedy, coalfield residents in central Appalachia and around the country are stunned and increasingly concerned about a "call to arms" issued by coal industry representatives for tomorrow's ...
• FBI Confirms Bomb Planted at Spokane Parade; 'Fall ...
• Mohamed ElBaradei Warns of 'Tunisia-Style Explosio ...
  by Jack Shenker in Cairo The Egyptian dissident Mohamed ElBaradei has warned of a "Tunisia-style explosion" in his country as self-immolation protests proliferated and anti-government activists announced plans for a nationwide "day of anger" next week.read more

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: Reading from Heidelberg for Janua ...
  ExamineReligion: Reading from Heidelberg for January 23 http://exm.nr/hbt5wn
• ExamineReligion: What Might Buddha Say About Gun C ...
  ExamineReligion: What Might Buddha Say About Gun Control? http://exm.nr/fJdJku
• ExamineReligion: World Community for Christian Med ...
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• ExamineReligion: Forgiveness is... http://exm.nr/f ...
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• ExamineReligion: Tu B'Shvat: holiday for the trees ...
  ExamineReligion: Tu B'Shvat: holiday for the trees http://exm.nr/hsJcGm

Energy Collective

• Renewables Can Be Beautiful: Land Art Design Prize ...
  Wandering over the huge Masdar stand at the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) in Abu Dhabi, a very interesting picture exhibition caught my eye. It showed dozens of futuristic design studies of renewable energy plants, most of them more art than technology or architecture. Wanting to know more about ...
• BP Signs Offshore Oil Drilling Deal in World's Env ...
  With the recent announcement of its intentions to set up exploratory offshore oil drilling operations in the Arctic, BP (NYSE:�BP) is set to embark into uncharted and hostile waters.
• Displacing More Oil from Power Generation
  Increasing the US contribution of wind and solar power, geothermal energy, and even nuclear power would have virtually no effect on our oil imports or energy security, because we use so little oil for power. However, a pair of articles reminded me that this logic doesn't necessarily apply elsewhere.
• Is rationalizing regulation even possible through ...
  Like other economists, I was intrigued by President Obama’s op-ed in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal about streamlining federal regulation.
• Doc alert: Paleoclimate Implications for Human-Mad ...
  The Paleoclimate Implications for Human-Made Climate Change, a draft of a new paper by James E. Hansen and Makiko Sato is available [PDF]. The paper’s abstract:

Green House - USA Today

• USDA unveils new green, bio-based product label
  Eco-minded shoppers will soon see a new new U.S.-approved label on many products, including household cleaners and skin-care items, made with bio-based ingredients.
• Harris Poll: Gays are greener than heterosexuals
  Gays express more concern about the environment than heterosexuals and the gap between them is growing as U.S. adults overall espouse fewer "green attitudes" than in 2009, finds a recent Harris Poll.
• BP: Renewable energy will outpace oil growth in 20 ...
  Renewable power sources will outpace oil as global energy demand surges nearly 40% in the next 20 years, according to an industry forecast Wednesday by energy giant BP.
• 2011's most fuel-efficient cars? Not just hybrids, ...
  This year promises huge leaps in fuel-sipping vehicles as electric cars like the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt enter the U.S. market. Car companies, prodded by U.S. requirements to boost overall fuel efficiency, are turning out a widening array of cars getting at least 30 miles per gallon, including th ...
• 'WindMade' joins growing list of green product lab ...
  Move over "certified organic" and "fair trade." A new eco-friendly label, "WindMade," debuts Tuesday for companies and products using wind energy.

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

• UNSC: An organization for injustice
  Kourosh Ziabari Since its very inception in 1946, the United Nations Security Council demonstrated that it cannot be trusted as a podium of justice for the world countries, specially the oppressed and defenseless nations which eye the assistance and patronage of the powerful and economically influe ...
• Wyoming defeats, Georgia introduces Food Freedom A ...
  By Rady Ananda On Tuesday, by a vote of 5-4, agriculture committee members rejected the Wyoming Food Freedom Act which would have exempted some food products from government inspections and would have encouraged the sale and consumption of homemade foods. Sue Wallis, who introduced the measure, ...
• LAWYERS WHO FILE FORECLOSURES SHOULD BE INVESTIGAT ...
  By Barbara Neither mortgage lenders, nor loan servicers are required to know laws and civil procedures that pertain to filing foreclosure pleadings in civil courts as well as bankruptcy courts. Foreclosure lawyers are officers of the court. The inadequate, questionable, or fraudulent foreclosure p ...
• Israeli Racism
  by Stephen Lendman Merriam-Webster defines racism as "a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race." It was the basis of South African apartheid and Nazi "master race" superiority abo ...
• Downsize or Modify? A Conversation with Noam Choms ...
  Mickey Z. While Noam Chomsky surely needs no introduction, as they say, that doesn't mean interviewing him has to follow a blueprint. So, after seeing him in a video called "Are We Running Out of Oil?" I decided to initiate a conversation about the future…or perhaps lack thereof. What will happe ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Ending Our Addiction to Coal: The Wind and Solar P ...
  The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Saskatchewan Office released today�Transforming Saskatchewan�s Electrical Future: The Potential for Wind and Solar Power, by Mark Bigland-Pritchard, a member of Green Energy Project Saskatchewan. The report offers a practical and workable set of integrate ...
• Why are Canadian corporate taxes so low?
  PricewaterhouseCoopers and the World Bank published their "Paying Taxes 2011" study. �Amoung other things it examines the total tax rate paid by a hypothetical flower pot corporation in 183 countries around the world. �Canada is in the top 10 countries in terms of how easy it is to pay taxes. What ...
• A recipe for greater equality
  The always insightful Alex Himelfarb asks in his latest must-read blog: "What would you think if someone could show that they knew just what it would take to improve our physical and mental health, reduce crime and violence, increase civic trust and participation, reduce teenage pregnancy and drug a ...
• A holiday gift from the CCPA: Enhanced publication ...
  For a limited time the CCPA is opening its entire cache of research free of charge � giving full public access to our publications via a database run by the Canadian Electronic Library. Browse our books, peruse chapters from our education journal Our Schools/Our Selves, and utilize the key-word se ...
• Canada's richest 1% taking more than ever before
  A major report by CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan shows Canada's richest 1% enjoy more of the gains from economic growth than ever before in recorded history. The report looks at income trends over the past 90 years, revealing the richest 1% took 32% of all growth in incomes between 1997 and ...

World Wide Hippies

• First Wikileaks Inspired Revolution: Tunisia
  Isn’t that where they filmed Star Wars? WikiLeaks and Tunisia | WSWS American foreign policy specialists have described the events in Tunisia over the past week as the âfirst WikiLeaks revolution.â This amounts to a grudging tribute from Washington to the impact of the courageous work of Julian Assa ...
• Don Kirshner, RIP
  Don Kirshner, Shaper of Hit Records, Dies at 76 | The New York Times Don Kirshner, the music publisher of Brill Building hits like “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” and “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin,’ ” who later served as a deadpan Ed Sullivan for Kiss, the Ramones and others with his 1970s television ...
• Breaking: Hobbit Designs Environmentally Friendly ...
  Eco homes: The future is green | Telegraph He may be one of the original hippies – imprisoned 40 years ago for conspiracy to pervert the course of public morals as one of the “Oz Three” – but today, Felix Dennis, the maverick publisher, is breaking ground again. Together with cutting-edge architects ...
• Alabama governor Robert Bentley to anyone who has ...
  Note to self: stay away from Alabama. New Ala. gov: Just Christians are his family | Associated Press Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley told a church crowd just moments into his new administration that those who have not accepted Jesus as their savior are not his brothers and sisters, shocking some critic ...
• Say It Isn’t So, Joe
  Top Ten Horrible Things done to Us by Outgoing Sen. Joe Lieberman | Informed Comment Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) announced Tuesday that he would not seek reelection in 2012, and progressive Americans breathed a sigh of collective relief. It is worth reviewing the most horrible things Lieberman h ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• "I Shall Not Hate": Gaza Doctor Izzeldin Abuelaish ...
  AMY GOODMAN: Yesterday marked the second anniversary of the end of Israel’s assault on Gaza. Dubbed "Operation Cast Lead," up to 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed in the 22-day assault between December 28th, 2008 and January 18th, 2009. More than half the Palestinians killed were civil ...
• 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 ...

Salon

• Gabrielle Giffords will be released on Friday
  Politico reports that Representative Gabrielle�Giffords will be released from the hospital on Friday. She will be transferred to Houston's Institute for Rehabilitation and Research at Memorial Herman Hospital. The institute specializes in in helping victims of brain trauma recovery.
• Swiss 'Wikileaks' banker guilty of coercion
  A Swiss banker who claims to have handed WikiLeaks details of rich tax evaders has been found guilty of coercion and breaking Switzerland's strict banking secrecy laws.
• Washington Post "On Faith" contributor: Christiani ...
  Last time we checked in on the Washington Post's "On Faith," a silly group religion blog run by the reliably embarrassing Sally Quinn, it had just run a piece arguing that Barack Obama had only himself to blame for the fact that many old white people think he's a Muslim. That post, along with bla ...
• NYPD gins up cops with anti-Muslim training video
  Tom Robbins reports that New York police were shown a lurid, conspiracy-mongering movie called "The Third Jihad" as part of their counter-terrorism training this month. The movie claims that American Muslims are secretly trying to undermine and destroy Western civilization from within. Robbins re ...
• Obama officials caught deceiving about WikiLeaks
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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

• Pan Am Games: Toronto’s sticker shock
  Despite rising costs, the Commonwealth Games are something to cheer about.
• Alzheimer’s disease: Heeding the cries in the nigh ...
  The death of a woman suffering from Alzheimer's disease on a frozen sidewalk underlines the need to tackle this growing health crisis.
• Baby Doc: Haiti’s tyrant returns
  The return of Jean-Claude Duvalier is a sorry commentary on Haiti’s ruinous lack of leadership and perilous government drift.
• A city says farewell
  Recognizing duty, honour and sacrifice, Toronto mourns the loss of one of its finest.
• Mortgage rules: Cleaning up the debt mess
  After the party comes the clean-up. After Canadians ran up their household debt to record levels, Ottawa has stepped in – once more – to cool things off by tightening rules on mortgage ...

Energy Collective

• Renewables Can Be Beautiful: Land Art Design Prize ...
  Wandering over the huge Masdar stand at the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) in Abu Dhabi, a very interesting picture exhibition caught my eye. It showed dozens of futuristic design studies of renewable energy plants, most of them more art than technology or architecture. Wanting to know more about ...
• BP Signs Offshore Oil Drilling Deal in World's Env ...
  With the recent announcement of its intentions to set up exploratory offshore oil drilling operations in the Arctic, BP (NYSE:�BP) is set to embark into uncharted and hostile waters.
• Displacing More Oil from Power Generation
  Increasing the US contribution of wind and solar power, geothermal energy, and even nuclear power would have virtually no effect on our oil imports or energy security, because we use so little oil for power. However, a pair of articles reminded me that this logic doesn't necessarily apply elsewhere.
• Is rationalizing regulation even possible through ...
  Like other economists, I was intrigued by President Obama’s op-ed in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal about streamlining federal regulation.
• Doc alert: Paleoclimate Implications for Human-Mad ...
  The Paleoclimate Implications for Human-Made Climate Change, a draft of a new paper by James E. Hansen and Makiko Sato is available [PDF]. The paper’s abstract:

EU Times

• £250m bill to fund college places in UK for foreig ...
  British students suffer rising tuition fees but British government and EU forces British taxpayers to give £250 million to fund foreign students. A new storm over student fees broke out last night as it was revealed that more than £250 million a year of British taxpayers’ cash is blown on university ...
• UK’s government debt reaches £1 trillion or £40k p ...
  Britain’s government debt smashed through £1 trillion ($1.59 trillion) for the first time yesterday – a staggering £40,000 per household. Campaigners branded the milestone ‘terrifying’ and warned that taxpayers will have to foot the bill for decades to come. Debts of £1trillion – an almost unimagina ...
• HIV-positive US Air Force sergeant faces 3 of his ...
  A U.S. Air Force sergeant – accused of having unprotected sex with multiple partners at swinger parties, without telling them he is HIV-positive – faced three of his victims in a court martial hearing today. Tech Sergeant David Gutierrez, 43, is accused of violating military law by breaking a squadr ...
• UK’s government debt reaches £1 trillion or £40k p ...
  Britain’s government debt smashed through £1 trillion ($1.59 trillion) for the first time yesterday – a staggering £40,000 per household. Campaigners branded the milestone ‘terrifying’ and warned that taxpayers will have to foot the bill for decades to come. Debts of £1trillion – an almost unimagina ...
• Chinese President Hu Jintao Visits US for First Ti ...
  The Chinese president arrived in the United States on Tuesday to meet with his US counterpart, Barack Obama, in what is being billed as the most important visit of its kind in three decades. Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in the United States on Tuesday for a four-day state visit against the ba ...

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

• Giffords to Leave Arizona Hospital Friday
  Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is expected to leave the hospital Friday to continue her recovery at a rehabilitation center in Houston, her office announced today. Giffords is scheduled to be transported from the University Medical Center in Tucson to the TIRR Memorial Hermann Rehabilitation Hospital in H ...
• Got a Candy Bar Phone? There’s a Facebook App for ...
  While it may come as little surprise, Facebook wants you to be using its services no matter what phone you are on or what country you are in. On Wednesday, the mammoth social networking company announced that it has a new app for so-called feature phones, a nice term for traditional or dumb mobile ...
• American Airlines: Not surprised by distribution p ...
  So was American Airlines shocked by the vehemence of the opposition to its direct-connect strategy? Bella Goren, CFO of parent company AMR Corp., said that the difficulty in achieving the airline’s distribution objectives was “not a total surprise,” although some of the actions taken by opponents a ...
• The Night in Tunisia is Fading, Slowly
  By George S. Hishmeh – Washington, D.C.   The Jasmine Revolution, as the popular and unarmed Tunisian uprising that ousted the corrupt and autocratic president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, is known, will go down in history as the first successful attempt by Arab masses to topple a onetime senior milit ...
• Civility - and an IED for a Martin Luther King Day ...
  MSNBC reports FBI: Bomb found on MLK march route 01/18/2011. Rob Kauder also reports on the discovery for KXLY.com in Device Found Along MLK Parade Route Credible Threat 01/18/2011. This was in Spokane, Washington. Several news outlets are carrying a story by Nicholas Geranios of AP quoting an anon ...

Groklaw

• My favorite comment on the Microsoft-paid-for
  Farm Report Just In: Chickens taste better, say panel of cows. - paiute, Slashdot
• Qt apps on Ubuntu
  In evaluating an app for the Ubuntu default install, we should ask: - is it free software? - is it best-in-class? - does it integrate with the system settings and preferences? - does it integrate with other applications? - is it accessible to people who cannot use a mouse, or keyboard? - does it lo ...
• Univa forks Oracle's Sun Grid Engine
  Gary Tyreman, who has been chief executive officer at Univa for the past three years, does not bear Ellison or the rest of Oracle any malice. He just thinks that Grid Engine is not a priority for Oracle and is dying of neglect. Univa is a company that has an OEM license from Sun, which transferred o ...
• Steve Jobs and the miracle of Cupertino
  Suddenly Apple would be out of the domain of art directors and put its impeccable taste in the hands of consumers. That was Jobs' vision, and that was his contribution. He had a vision that design mattered, and that consumers would beat a path to his door if he could manufacture and market beautiful ...
• Justice Department Files Opening Brief in Defense ...
  The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday told a federal appellate court that the Defense of Marriage Act does not violate the constitutional rights of same-sex married couples or their survivors and is a constitutional exercise of authority by Congress. The department filed its opening brief in t ...

WideShut

• Fluoridation of Southampton’s Water May Be & ...
  As Southampton Fluoride action reaches the high court, we take another look at the true dangers of water flouridation.
• Record Youth Unemployment In UK
  Cameron launching back to work campaign, but with record unemployment due to lack of jobs how is it supposed to work?
• Haiti and the New World Order
  WideShut Webcast: Discussing the takeover of Haiti, the Stuxnet virus false flag and Jared Lee Loughner's Youtube.
• Scottish See Light On Vitamin D
  Scottish Government advising pregnant women to take Vitamin D and to make their own baby food.
• Intelligence Agencies Infiltrating Online Games
  World of Warcraft and Second Life targeted in intelligence gathering operation, that looks for cyber-terrorists.

Waterkeeper Alliance

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Politics in the Zeros

• Social Distortion. Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes
  You can listen to the entire new Social Distortion album online. Plus, the more who listen, the cheaper the price gets on Amazon. Such a deal!
• Shale gas drilling can make tap water flammable
  Shale gas drilling, which involves injection toxic and flammable liquids at high pressure underground to fracture rock formations can make tap water flammable. Crazed environmentalists (and those who wish to drink water from their taps without fear of exploding) oppose this dangerous practice, while ...
• The emptiness of liberal and progressive discourse ...
  Emptywheel at FDL continues the discussion triggered by Freddie DeBoerâs “the blindspot,” which is about the lameness and complicity of the liberal blogosphere, and the lack of a genuine left here in the States. There’s a thriving left in Britain that has an accompanying blogosphere. A quick glance ...
• Apparently the recession was caused by excessive r ...
  So implies Obama, in the WSJ where he mandates that foolish regulations will be henceforth banished to the netherworld. Observers are unclear as to whether this includes regulations he has in fact ushered in himself. Look, dumb and stupid regulations can indeed be burdonsome and inane (as I pointed ...
• Sahara Forest Project. Concentrated solar and seaw ...
  The hugely visionary Sahara Forest Project, a collaboration between Norway and Jordan, is about to become reality. It will desalinate water from the Red Sea using solar power, and will also use the incoming water to cool greenhouses so crops can be grown year round in the desert.

TVNZ - Top Stories

• Unconfirmed reports of helicopter crash in Northla ...
  There are unconfirmed reports of a helicopter crash near Bream Bay in Northland.
• Bomb scare reported at the Beehive
  A bomb scare has been reported at the Beehive.
• Large aftershock measuring 5.1 jolts Canterbury
  A large aftershock has rocked Christchurch just hours after a 5.1 magnitude quake hit this morning.
• Gerry Brownlee rejects claims he lied about Hobbit
  Economic Development Minister Gerry Brownlee has denied accusations he misled Parliament when filmmakers were considering moving The Hobbit film production overseas
• NZ consumer prices rise 2.3% in the three months e ...
  Kiwi retailers took the government's hike in GST on the chin as the quarterly inflation rate rose to 2.3%.

Just World News

• Anne Applebaum and the 'Delugist' narrative on Tun ...
  There is a powerful constellation of forces in the Middle East that wants to see Tunisia's current popular uprising fail. This constellation includes: (1) All the other U.S.-supported autocrats in the Arab world, now terrified that Pres. Ben Ali's hasty departure from the country his family has loot ...
• Open thread, MIC, Tunisia, etc
  I am in North Carolina for much of the weekend, presenting at this conference on the military-industrial complex. Amazing yesterday, driving down here, to hear so many great news reports on the car radio about the unraveling of one small corner of the complex, in Tunisia. There may yet be bloody a ...
• Tunis: Curtains for Ben Ali?
  Just looking at this coverage from Al-Jaz of the day's massive and nonviolent protests in the Tunisian capital, Tunis. As Trotsky so elegantly described in his "History of the Russian Revolution", when the Cossacks start fraternizing with the protesters this signals the imminent end of the regime. ...
• Lebanon, what next?
  Anthony Shadid had a piece on Lebanon in the NYT today, with this lede: With Hezbollah’s toppling of the Lebanese government, the militant Shiite Muslim movement entered what may prove to be one of the most dangerous chapters in a 30-year history that has made it reviled in the West and popular in ...
• The STL and the myth of judicial virginity
  The myth propagated by supporters of the various "international" criminal tribunals established since 1992 has been that somehow a judicial proceeding could rise completely above the sordid field of politics and follow its own complete integrity. I used to subscribe to that myth. But in 2000-01, a ...

First Truths

• The People's Republic of Crony Capitalism
  My latest for the Center for a Stateless Society: States the world over are acting as guarantors of entrenched commercial power, promoting their economic interventions with the language of fairness and efficiency. The new rules that the China Banking Regulatory Commission is expected to promulgate a ...
• No Work for the Weary, Part II
  My latest commentary for the Center for a Stateless Society: But if the state exerts its monopoly on the use of force to create special advantages for certain "competitors," and all of the supposed "choices" we have in the economic system are predicated on those advantages, then there is only the si ...
• The Empire Drones On
  I commented for C4SS "on the secrecy surrounding the U.S. military's drone program and the number of innocents it kills."
• 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.

Media Co-Op

• Pricy Jets a Nice Haul for Lockheed Execs
  Halifax Peace Coalition celebrates King, Eisenhower in picket against F-35s at Stadacona The decision by Canada's government to invest $9 billion in the "next generation" of fighter jets is a Nova Scotian issue, and should be of particular con ...
• By A Show of Hands...
  The Post-Secondary Education Coalition presents the results of their opinion polling and prepares to hit the streets. The Nova Scotia Post-Secondary Education Coalition took the fight against deregulating tuition fees into provincial governmen ...
• Sinixt in Vancouver Courts
  'Extinct' Nation Works to Defend Traditional Territory From January 10-14, 2011, members of the Sinixt nation were in Vancouver attending a BC Supreme Court case resulting from their three-week long anti-logging blockade in October 2010. In t ...
• Divorce as a Social Network
  Women discover a sense of communal support at the Divorce Fair “I don’t have him around anymore.” “I don’t have that pain.” “More closet space.” “No snoring.” “Less debt.” Each statement garnered an increasingly positive response from the crow ...
• Fighting the Height
  VANCOUVER -   Downtown Eastside residents and organizations are speaking out against City plans for more condo towers in their neighbourhood. Spearheaded by the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood Council (DNC), an ad hoc coalition held a press conference today to denounce the City's Hictoric Area Heigh ...

David Seaton's News Links

• Freedom in America: as plain as the nose on your f ...
  Severe Concomitant Esotropia David Seaton's News LinksThe most obvious things are often the hardest to see: for example, without a mirror it is impossible to see the nose on your face... unless of course you suffer from severe concomitant esotropia, in which case you hardly see ...
• 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 ...

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

• The Amazing Skidboot
  Meet the Amazing Skidboot -- the smartest dog you will ever see.
• Now the FDA is Going After Vitamin C!
  The U.S. FDA has recently notified at least one pharmacy that they will no longer be allowed to manufacture or distribute injectable vitamin C. With at least one pharmacy, the FDA may also be banning injectable magnesium chloride and injectable vitamin B-complex 100. These two substances are ofte ...
• Captured on Tape: 60 Minutes Exposes the Maker of ...
  Drug company whistle-blower Cheryl Eckard talks about her experience trying to fix problems at GlaxoSmithKline.� Her discoveries about the dangerous practices of the company made her a key figure in a federal lawsuit.
• Eating This “Healthy” Food While Pregnant Can Lead ...
  When a pregnant woman eats a fish-rich diet, the mercury content can reduce the beneficial effects fish oil has on her child's brain development. Babies exposed in the womb to higher methyl mercury levels scored lower on skills tests. Of five nutrients tested, only the benefits of the fish oil DHA ...
• WikiLeaks Exposes Pfizer's Strong-arm Tactics to C ...
  U.S. diplomatic cables made public by WikiLeaks show that drugmaker Pfizer hired investigators to find evidence of corruption against Nigeria's attorney general, in an effort to convince him to drop legal action against the company. Pfizer was sued for $2 billion over testing of the meningitis drug ...

JAMA

• Standards for Education and Credentialing in Criti ...
• Implications of the Principle of Question Propagat ...
• A Vision for Patient-Centered Health Information S ...
• Policy Options to Improve Discharge Planning and R ...
• Mapping Out Biomarkers for Alzheimer Disease [Edit ...

Survival - tribal peoples

• Bushmen back in court over water rights
  Bushman child, CKGR, Botswana 2004 © 2004 Stephen Corry/Survival The Kalahari Bushmen pleaded for the right to water in Botswana’s Court of Appeal on Monday. A panel of five judges heard the case, and are expected to deliver their verdict on 27th or 31st January. The Bushmen won the right to ...
• Botswana approves $3bn mine as Bushman water case ...
  Bushman mother and children at Gope, before their eviction to a resettlement camp © Fiona Watson/Survival Botswanaâs government has green-lighted a massive $3bn mine in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve â in the middle of the Kalahari Bushmenâs appeal against the Botswana authoritiesâ refusal ...
• Brazilian authorities approve Amazon dam despite p ...
  Kayapó Indians protesting against the Belo Monte dam © T Turner The Brazilian government’s Indigenous Affairs Department, FUNAI, has issued an order restricting entry to an area of land near the site of the planned Belo Monte dam, following indications that there are uncontacted Indians living ...
• Bushmen ‘determined’ as legal battle over water ap ...
  Xoroxloo Duxee died of dehydration after the Bushmen's water borehole was disabled. © Survival On January 17th, Botswana’s Court of Appeal will begin a hearing to decide whether Kalahari Bushmen living on their ancestral lands have the right to water. The Bushmen, who returned to their land ...
• 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

• Head hits have no place in hockey at any level
  Sidney Crosby is the National Hockey League's leading scorer. He's its biggest star. His team's fortunes rise and fall on his presence. Yet for the last 21/2 weeks Crosby has been unable to play, suffering from one, possibly two concussions, joining a long list of athletes with significant h ...
• Baby Doc's arrest: what took them so long?
  It is something of a mystery just why former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude (Baby Doc) Duvalier was moved to make a surprise return this week to the homeland he fled in abject disgrace for refuge in France a quarter of a century ago.
• Reality show's going to leave scars
  E!'s disturbing Bridalplasty and its warped quest for 'perfection' send a dangerous message
• Editorial: Anti-Semitic attacks disgrace Montreal
  The attacks of vandalism this weekend on five Jewish institutions in Montreal are a disgrace. It is outrageous that a community in this city cannot go about its normal life without having to be worried that it might at any time be the object of a gratuitous, hateful and violent attack.
• Anti-Semitic attacks disgrace Montreal
  The attacks of vandalism this weekend on five Jewish institutions in Montreal are a disgrace. It is outrageous that a community in this city cannot go about its normal life without having to be worried that it might at any time be the object of a gratuitous, hateful and violent attack.

Food World Order

• usda cracks down on honey laundering
  from allgov: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is continuing its pursuit of illegal, and sometimes dangerous, imports of foreign honey into the United States. After the government in 2002 imposed a tariff on honey imported from China, the world’s largest producer of the product, Chinese busi ...
• maryland orchard to pasteurize cider after e. coli ...
  from barfblog: In October, 1996, 16-month-old Anna Gimmestad of Denver drank Smoothie juice manufactured by Odwalla Inc. of Half Moon Bay, Calif. She died several weeks later; 64 others became ill in several western U.S. states and British Columbia after drinking the same juices, which contained un ...
• 1/13 binge & purge: human cheese & toxic waste®
  1m pigs buried alive in s. korea foot & mouth outbreak* lower corn & soybean output sends prices surging* nanofoods discussion group gears up in uk* would you try a slice of human cheese?* don't eat the toxic waste® brand nuclear sludge® chew bars!
• 1,000+ layoffs possible after a&p bankruptcy
  from press of atlantic city: More than 1,000 workers at a grocery distributor in New Jersey could lose their jobs in February in the wake of a bankruptcy filing by supermarket giant A&P. Officials with Woodbridge Logistics say they filed notice earlier this month with state regulators warning that i ...
• 11/25 binge & purge: giving thanks
  survey finds more families dining together* s510 vote delayed until after thanksgiving - take action now to oppose food tyranny* s510 food safety? fda has killed far more people than contaminated eggs or lettuce* medical mistakes kill 15,000 patients every month* book series gives consum ...

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

• George Soros: The United States Must Stop Resistin ...
  In the video you are about to see, George Soros talks about "the creation of a New World Order", he discusses the need for a "managed decline" of the U.S. dollar and he talks at length of the global need for a true world currency. So just who is George Soros? Well, he [...]
• The Shadow Banking System: A Third Of All The Weal ...
  You and I live in a totally different world than the ultra-rich and the international banking elite do.  Many of them live in a world where they simply do not pay income taxes.  Today, it is estimated that a third of all the wealth in the world is held in offshore banks.  So why is ...
• 17 National Debt Statistics Which Prove That We Ha ...
  What we have done to future generations over the past 30 years is absolutely criminal.  30 years ago the U.S. national debt was a bit under one trillion dollars, and at that time it was considered a huge national crisis.  Today, the national debt is 14 times larger and the years ahe ...
• Almost Everything Is A Crime In America Now: 14 Of ...
  Doesn't it seem like almost everything is becoming a crime in America now?  Americans are being arrested and charged with crimes for doing things like leaving dog poop on the ground, opening up Christmas presents early, not recycling properly, farting in class and having brown lawns ...
• The More Americans That Go On Food Stamps The More ...
  JP Morgan is the largest processor of food stamp benefits in the United States.  JP Morgan has contracted to provide food stamp debit cards in 26 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.  JP Morgan is paid for each case that it handles, so that means that the more Americans that go ...

CASSE

• Fictitious “Facts” Spur Students to Liquidate the ...
  Are our colleges and universities sending students to work on a misguided mission?
• Show Me the Evidence: Growth and Prosperity
  New study by Fodor and Associates shows that growth and prosperity have become unhitched in U.S. cities.
• Who Moved My “Conservative?”
  How is it that the word “conservative” has come to mean such an anti-environmental, pro-growth, transform-the-world-into-plastic agenda.
• The Financial Crisis Is the Environmental Crisis
  Eric Zencey suggests reforming the monetary system to avoid future economic and ecological calamities.
• Homo Economicus Versus Person-in-Community
  Herman Daly takes aim at a major flaw of neoclassical economics, along with the wrong-headed policies of globalization.

The Talking Clock

• Is Theresa May actually Jacqui Smith in a mask?
  News breaking on the BBC that the 'controversial' American pastor Terry Jones has been banned from entering Britain 'for the public good'. This is the guy who threatened to burn a copy of the Koran in the United States on the anniversary of 9/11. Now, leaving aside the fact that this blogger t ...
• Quote of the Day: Our Nigel "has gone global", say ...
  The always spectacular Mary Ellen Synon at the Daily Mail recounts a charming story about Nigel Farage today. I won't spoil it, but she ends with the lines: "'Next time you see Nigel,' said the Chinese-German-American, 'tell him he has fans in America and a waiting audience.' The UKIP leader it s ...
• Just tell the British people the truth about the V ...
  Rows, lies and spin are nothing unusual from the clueless political goons and their mouthpieces. However, the representation of the rise in VAT to 20% is a masterclass example. Our 'Quote of the Day' for yesterday came from John Redwood MP who explained: "VAT is of course an EU required tax, and ...
• It's you 'civil servants' that are 'not in the pub ...
  While yesterday was taken up with Irish printing presses, we had to hold back our view on the Iraq War Inquiry cover-up - as has been made public by inquiry chair, Sir John Chilcot. The Evening Standard greeted an announcement by Chilcot yesterday by writing: "A cover-up row erupted when the offi ...
• Greetings Athens, London calling. Do you know what ...
  Holy Pluto! This is likely to get them back onto the streets in Athens. And possibly in Lisbon, Madrid and Rome, too. According to the Irish Independent: "EMERGENCY lending from the ECB to banks in Ireland fell in December, the first decline since January 2010, but only because the Irish C ...

Facing South

• Scarce jobs and broke budgets: What can Southern s ...
  If anyone needed evidence that the Great Recession is still reverberating through the economy, consider the situation state legislatures face as they come into session this month. Put together, states have a collective $160 billion budget shortfall for the current fiscal year. And some states are ...
• Big Oil sends regulatory wish list to Congress
  The new head of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform recently invited companies and industry groups to submit a list of regulations they'd like to see scrapped. The responses have been coming in -- but the American public isn't allowed to see them yet. That's because Chairman Dar ...
• The gayest of times, the worst of times
  By Bob Moser, Texas ObserverBobby Beltran was already having a blue Christmas. Because of his job, the 26-year-old was missing his tight-knit family's celebration back home in Brownsville for the first time. After work on Christmas night, to cheer himself up, Beltran joined some friends and ...
• State of King's Dream: Black America's economic ni ...
  As we celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it's important to take stock: Where does our country stand in realizing King's dream of a more just South and country? Historians like Michael Honey have documented how, in King's later years, the civil rights martyr broadened his ...
• 'It is love that will save our world'
  With the American people still struggling to make sense of the recent shootings in Arizona and the role that violent political rhetoric may have played, we revisit the words of the minister from Georgia who we honor this weekend. Following is the text of a sermon Martin Luther King, Jr. d ...

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  Supreme Court Declines to Hear al-Adahi Appeal The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an appeal by Guantanamo detainee Mohammed al-Adahi, who was ordered freed by a federal judge in 2009 on the grounds that the government lacked sufficient … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  NYT Report Offers Window into Defense Strategy in Ghailani Trial The New York Times offers an in-depth portrait Tuesday of the strategy defense attorneys used during the trial of Ahmed Ghailani, the first Guantanamo detainee to be tried in a … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Yemen Sentences al-Awlaki to Ten Years in Absentia U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was sentenced in absentia by a Yemeni court to ten years in prison Monday for âtaking part in an armed group and incitement to kill foreigners,â according to … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Man Sentenced to 15 Years for JFK Bomb Plot Abdel Nur, a Guyanese citizen who pleaded guilty to aiding a 2007 plot to bomb New Yorkâs JFK Airport, was sentenced to the maximum 15 years in prison Thursday, according to … Continue reading →
• Online Open Forum: After Tucson, A View from the U ...
  PETER J. CLARKE former head of the Counter Terrorism Command at Scotland Yard and fellow at the Center on Law and Security A View from the UK Last year a British Member of Parliament was stabbed by a woman who was … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• Microsoft Kinect hack used to help robotic surgeon ...
  A group of students are using Microsoft's Kinect controller to help give robotic surgeons a greater sense of touch when they are performing operations.
• Whopping crayfish species stayed hidden for decade ...
  A colourful crayfish twice the size of its close relatives has been found lurking under a rock in a creek in Tennessee
• Today on New Scientist: 19 January 2011
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: robot helicopters, what killed Tutankhamun, and chameleon tanks
• Blood test accurately predicts Down's syndrome
  Can a simple blood test eliminate the need for risky invasive testing?
• Internet archaeology: Dig into Wikipedia's deep pa ...
  Wikipedia turns 10 tomorrow and the site's first edits have just been uncovered. Dive in and see what you can find

Tech Drive In

• Last.fm Free Music Player Google Chrome Extension ...
  Tech Drive-in has covered several posts on useful Google Chrome extensions before, the most prominent being the one where we featured useful Chrome extensions for a more secure browsing experience. But this one is special. A Last.fm music player extension for Google Chrome that�does exactly what you ...
• Impressive LibreOffice UI Mockups You Need to See
  LibreOffice is already my default office suite in Ubuntu though there is not much of a difference between OpenOffice and LibreOffice for now. But things are moving fast and LibreOffice is going to have its first official release soon. Meanwhile, you might want to remove all traces of OpenOffice and ...
• Elementary Studio GTK Theme - Fusion of Elementary ...
  Elementary Studio GTK theme is a nice and impressive fusion of DanRabbit's Elementary GTK theme and beautiful dark Ubuntu Studio default theme. Elementary theme is supposed to be the default theme for upcoming Elementary OS codenamed "Jupiter".� Elementary Studio GTK Theme Based on the popula ...
• Midori vs Epiphany Review
  In the last couple months I've been seeing a lot of articles concerning the Midori web browser. It's a lightweight GTK-based browser that uses the WebKit rendering engine also used by browsers like Chromium and Safari. At version 0.2.9, it's relatively new (it's still a ways away from a 1.0 release) ...
• 4 Beautiful Ubuntu Unity UI Mockups/Ideas
  When you look back at the history of Ubuntu through the years, you will see that, Ubuntu Unity is *the* most significant change ever happened to Ubuntu. Ubuntu Unity is a really interesting idea with limitless possibilities. Now, here are some innovative user created Ubuntu Unity UI mockups/ideas yo ...

Case About Bird Flu

• GERMANY CONSIDERING DEBT RESTRUCTURING OF GREECE A ...
  The German government is considering a restructuring of Greek and Irish debt, according to German media. Plans to implement a partial default for Greece and Ireland could signal that the German government is putting together a viable strategy to stabilize the eurozone., which is currently collapsing ...
• Brian „Trabelsi“ Cowen prolongs the inevitable dem ...
  Ireland’s Taoiseach Brian Cowen won the motion of confidence among Fianna Fail Dail members atlast night after Finance Minister Brian Lenihan swung behind the beleagured Prime Minister Cowen’s challenger, Irish foreign minister Micheal Martin, is set to resign from Cabinet. Facing annihilation in ...
• Debt Bondage: The Economic Treason of Banks
  Bob Chapman The International Forecaster January 18, 2011 Between now and the end of the year, most likely in the fall, we’ll see major financial and economic problems in Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Belgium, Spain and Italy. Those events will sorely test Germany, France, Holland and Austria. Over and ...
• Rockefeller Owned: Chileans tell him he will fail
  NWNoticias YouTube January 17, 2011 Together with his good-old friend Agustin Edwards Eastman, Mr. Rockefeller takes a quick vacation almost every year in the south of Chile. Both are well known for working with the CIA during the 1973 coup against Salvador Allende and manipulating public opinion th ...
• China Plants Flag on Constitution Avenue
  Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com January 18, 2011 On Tuesday night, Obama followed the script closely. He sat down to what the corporate media describes as “an unusual and intimate dinner” with Hu Jintao, the CEO of the sprawling slave labor gulag and globalist dream come true in China. After dinner, Hu Jina ...

Invisible Opportunity

• The Cost of Celebrity and the Price of Fame
  By Les Visible I understand the need for celebrities. We like movies and music. We like to read books and enjoy the force and power of ‘the muse’ as it works ‘through’ someone. A lot of us even enjoy the arrogance of those who deny the existence of the muse; to their great misfortune. I’ve [...]
• California county allows marijuana, but not raw mi ...
  By Ethan Huff Humboldt County, Calif., is largely recognized as the marijuana capital of the U.S. Its lax attitude towards both the legal and illegal growth and sale of the controversial plant is unmatched, and has earned the county quite a reputation. But in a state where raw milk sales are legal, ...
• FDA System Approves Nonexistent Product from Nonex ...
  By Heidi Stevenson The FDA farms out drug and medical device testing. It’s in the hands of the companies hoping to gain approval for their products, but they must first get approval before doing tests on humans. Even here, though, there’s a catch. The FDA doesn’t review the testing plans. That’s don ...
• Seasonal flu vaccine fairy tale rapidly collapsing ...
  By Mike Adams Like a medical house of cards in an earthquake, the seasonal flu vaccine mythology is collapsing right before our eyes. After months of urging everyone to get vaccinated (and blaming non-vaccinated people for skipping out on their “public health obligation”), UK health authorities anno ...
• Constitutionalist Judge John Roll may have been th ...

Veterans Today

• Gaza Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish Two Years After Israel ...
  Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish was a well-known Palestinian gynecologist who spent years working in one of Israeli’s main hospitals. On January 16, 2009, two days before the end of Israel’s brutal 22-day assault on Gaza, his home was shelled twice by Israeli tanks. His three daughters and his niece were kil ...
• U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contra ...
  DoD CONTRACTS: No. 048-11 NAVY CAE USA, Inc., Tampa, Fla., is being awarded a $43,543,031 firm-fixed-price contract to design, fabricate, install and test one MH-60R Tactical Operational Flight Trainer and one MH-60R/S Tactical Operational Flight Trainer. Work will be performed in Tampa, Fla. (42 pe ...
• White House White Board: The Costs of Repealing He ...
  Today, Republicans in the House of Representatives are voting on a bill to repeal the new freedoms, control over health care decisions, and cost savings the health care law—the Affordable Care Act—provides the American people. As Secretary Geithner noted this morning, repeal would be bad for busines ...
• GOP-Tea Party Play Chicken With U.S. Credit, Court ...
  Risking catastrophe to score political points in a premeditated spasm of hypocrisy and recklessness not seen since the Bush-Cheney GOP started three wars and funded them with tax cuts for the Super-rich. Will the idiot wind subside as markets tremble? … When George W. Bush was President, Republica ...
• Gilad Atzmon: Can a Criminal State Deal With War C ...
  Haaretz reported today that Israeli citizen Aleksander Cvetkovic, 42, is suspected of participating in the murder of at least 1,000 Bosnian Muslims at the Branjevo farm near the city of Zvornik. Cvetkovic, 42, was arrested at the request of the Bosnia-Herzegovina government. He is suspected of parti ...

electric politics

• Inflection Points
  What's the attraction of trying to remake the world so that everybody becomes like us? My answer is it's the logical extension of a terrifying, still very much alive American system of slavery but whatever your favorite explanation, the project itself is doomed. When will we ever learn? To talk abo ...
• 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 ...

PR News

• Joele Frank tops US M&A adviser list
  NEW YORK: Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher advised on $133.6 billion worth of M&A deals in 2010.
• Jones joins Black Rock Group
  ALEXANDRIA, VA: The Black Rock Group hired Brian Jones as a partner, effective February 1.
• Middleberg principal joins GolinHarris
  NEW YORK: GolinHarris appointed Jim Dowd as SVP of national media relations.
• Hayes to head up UPS PR
  ATLANTA: UPS has promoted Dale Hayes, former VP of small business and retail marketing, to lead its corporate public relations group, effective February 1.
• SKDK hires two
  WASHINGTON: SKDKnickerbocker hired Doug Thornell and Anna Beth Gall in the firm's public affairs practice.

The Story Behind the Story

• Is A. True Ott “Sorcha Faal”? Not Eve ...
  I have recently had a dozen or so people e-mail me concerning what I believe to have been an honest mistake — a patriot blog identified me, A. True Ott, with being “Sorcha Faal”.  The author even posted my picture.  He quickly apologized to me for his error, claiming that his “information” came fr ...
• Top 30 Hidden FACTS about “America”
  In order to understand what is REALLY going on covertly, “behind the curtain” in America – one needs to internalize and understand the following 30 basic facts about “The Powers That Be”.  (TPTB). Thirty Little Known Facts about America 1. The IRS is NOT a U.S. Government Agency.  It is an Agency ...
• The Death Cult of Jared Loughner
  This is a HUGE Story, folks.  This must be shared far and wide. Click Here: Death Cult As Don N. writes so eloquently on this subject: This case is much, much larger than one ‘lone gunman’. Death cults, drug smuggling (MSM spin aside), and mind control are at the heart of what finances and facilit ...
• 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 ...

k2p blog

• Drug smuggling pigeon ring broken
  Colombian police have captured a carrier pigeon that was being used to smuggle drugs into a prison.
• 100 year old whiskey from Shackleton’s hut a ...
  100 year old whiskey has been found under Shackleton's hut in the Antarctic and a shipwreck off Finland has given up 3 brands of 200 year old champagne.
• Dreamliner delayed again and Qantas dramatics cont ...
  Boeing has delayed the Dreamliner for the seventh time. Meanwhile two Boeing 747 Qantas flights have had problems with their Rolls Royce RB 211 engines.
• Sea Of Okhotsk rescue not quite over yet
  While the icebreakers had broken through the worst of the ice, the rescue is not yet over. Yesterday with engine problems and bad weather the convoy led by the icebreakers only managed to cover 3 miles.
• NASA reduces forecast for Solar Cycle 24 again
  In December NASA had reduced its forecasts for SC24 to a peak sunspot number of 64 being reached in June 2013. Now less than two months later, the latest forecast has been reduced again to a peak sunspot number of 59 to be reached in June / July 2013.

Left Foot Forward

• Left Foot Forward’s Nicola Smith named Workw ...
  Left Foot Forward's Nicola Smith was named Blogger of the Year at the Work Foundation's 'Workworld Media Awards' last night.
• Housing – a fault line between London and th ...
  Just days after the government's controversial localism bill, tenants in Wales and Scotland have received welcome news, writes Ed Jacobs.
• Lord Owen turns on coalition health plans
  In the forthcoming issue of the New Statesman, senior crossbench peer and former foreign secretary Lord Owen turns on the coalition's reforms of the health service.
• Axing EMA is not a tough choice – it’s ...
  It’s not the tough choices that need to be evaded, it’s the stupid ones - and axing Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) falls right into that category.
• Labour market deterioriation is now becoming a cau ...
  Today's labour market statistics are simply bad news, though the monthly unemployment data are slightly more promising - but overall, levels remain high.

Consumerist

• Find Cheaper Textbooks Online
  The New York Times Bucks Blog has a great feature on finding textbooks for less. There's a great list of comparison sites in there. Don't forget too the option of e-textbooks at sites like CafeScribe. Having all the text digitized not only makes it lighter and more portable, but you can easily CTRL ...
• Protected By Cops, Emergency Locksmith Rips Woman ...
  A woman blogs that she found herself locked out of her apartment because her keys were getting stuck and the lock wasn't working. So she called an emergency locksmith who arrived 15 minutes later, drilled off the cylinder, replaced it, and presented her with a bill for $613. When she refused to pay ...
• Woman Finds $280K Worth Of Drugs In Vacuum
  A Wisconsin mother received a vacuum from her children as a Christmas present. The gift quickly lost its dull nature when she opened it up to discover a stash of drugs encased inside. AOL reports the vacuum contained crystal meth and cocaine that law enforcement officials estimated was worth more ...
• Starbucks Expanding Pay-By-Phone To All Stores
  Just days after unleashing the bladder-busting, 31-ounce "trenta" size on America, Starbucks has announced that users of iPhones and Blackberries will be able to pay for their caffeine fix with their smartphones. S'bucks tested the system in a handful of markets, including NYC, during the last hal ...
• Verizon Confirms "New Every Two" Is Ending
  Verizon has confirmed the information in the leaked slide we reported on two weeks ago. They're ending their "New Every Two" policy. New customers after Jan 16 won't get the credit, and current customers won't get the credit after their next contract renewal. Previously the program let those in tw ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Swiss 'WikiLeaks' Banker on Trial; Congress Looks ...
  By Wikimedia user Elwood J. Blues BBC News: Swiss Banker Linked to Wikileaks on Trial Over Secrecy A former Swiss banker faced a one-day hearing today in Zurich for allegedly leaking client data, as well as making threats to his former employer. Although the banker handed over additional ...
• IRS Revamps Whistleblower Reward Program: Whistleb ...
  Washington Post: IRS Reverses Position, Which Could Benefit Whistleblowers Summary: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has reversed a policy change that had limited the scope of its whistleblower program by blocking rewards for informants in certain cases. On Friday, the IRS announced new r ...
• DOJ: So-Called "Leakers" Are More Dangerous Than S ...
  The strength of government's unyielding animus toward whistleblowers is no more evident than in the latest statements from disgraced prosecutor William Welch, who is "redeeming" himself amidst prosecutorial misconduct allegations stemming from the botched case against late-senator Ted Stevens by ...
• Voice of America Subcontractor Fired for Iraq War ...
  The following blog entry was written by GAP Homeland Security Director Jesselyn Radack for her Daily Kos diary. This diary is dedicated to the memory of Linda C. Lee. 9/11 was a catastrophic tragedy. The wholesale erosion of our civil rights and liberties is the self-inflicted collateral dama ...
• Individual Fights "Retaliatory" NYPD Arrest: Whist ...
  New York Post: NYPD "Black Doll Head" Whistleblower Fighting "Retaliatory" Arrest The case against an individual -- who called attention to an incident in which white police officers drove through East Harlem with a black doll’s head on their car’s antenna -- is proceeding to trial for obstruct ...

UK Progressive

• That Didn’t Take Long… RW Sees Obama Tucson Speech ...
  Hey,  it was almost an entire week. Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck, FOX’s cable attack dogs had two interesting exchanges where they ‘embrace’ President Obama’s call for civility, see nothing wrong nor take any responsibility for their own contributions and then spend the second segment attacking eve ...
• How Cold Is It?
  If you think you’re cold try this experiment, boiling water is poured into a glass beaker and then tossed into the air in -30C temperatures. If it is that cold why is this woman not wearing a hat or gloves? Bonus answer: Canadian women are very tough!
• Book Review: Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New ...
  By Theodora Filis, Contributing Editor Bill McKibben is an environmentalist and writer. Author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, The End of Nature, Fight Global Warming Now, and Deep Economy. In 2009 he led the organization of 350.org. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Times ...
• FOX News ‘Fair and Balanced’ Chris Wallace Begs Ch ...
  News anchors are supposed to remain neutral and above the fray. So why does Chris Wallace of FOX News seemingly beg NJ Governor Chris Christie to run for President in 2012? Republican conservative media king-making excess (on steroids) is now an acceptable media practice? Watch: WALLACE: You have re ...
• Will We Learn To Get Along Or Is All Hope Lost?
  The shooting of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords was surprising in that it took so long to happen. Since announcing his run for the presidency in February of 2008, the rhetoric surrounding the (Kenyan, Muslim, antichrist, grandma killing) US President Barack Obama has been heated and racist. A product o ...

NewsAlert

• ‘Social Security has nothing to do with the defici ...
  Raw Story
• We Do Not Need a State: Lew Rockwell interviews Ro ...
  The Lew Rockwell Show
• Feds probe Espada author pay
  The New York Post
• Survey: Kids Aren't Afraid To Friend Their Parents
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• Manhattan Moment: Obama promises to fix regulation ...
  The Washington Examiner

JoNova

• Vision of The Annointed
  Thomas Sowell wrote Vision of the Anointed in 1995, and didn’t mention climate change. Yet such is the insight of the man that what he wrote was prescient, pertinent and 100% applicable 15 years later. Our battle today follows a similar pattern to  battles over many other social policies. Sowell di ...
• While the Cat is away-Version 2
  CAT (away) + Mice = PLAY Jo is away from the computer for some fun and relaxation with her family. Jo being “off-line” leaves the controls of this blog in the hands of volunteer moderators. This time while the Cat is away: Many regular posters here use web links to make their point(s). If those [... ...
• The Warmest Year Antidotes
  What do you say when the Big PR bell is rung? You know the litany: “2010 was the warmest since measuring began, and the previous decade was also the warmest decade on record.” (eg The AGE) Sure, and the world has been warming for 300 years, long before the industrial revolution. The trend hasn’t cha ...
• Brisbane’s Man-made Flood Peak?
  In Australia we’re all watching the flood news unfold. Right now, two friends are trapped without electricity in an apartment building in inner Brisbane. The ground floor below them is inundated. Troy and Jan wrote on Tuesday night that they had little warning their exit route would be cut off, and ...
• Half of the energy is flung out to space… (along w ...
  This is one of those scratch-your-head moments when a skeptic just has to ask “Could the modelers really have overlooked that?” Given the $79 billion odd dollars in research and the billions of dollars bet on the models, it seems hard to believe. Then again, the same team didn’t ask any hard questio ...

ReNew America

• 26 states to be part of Obamacare lawsuit
  (Associated Press) - Six more states said Tuesday they would join a lawsuit in Florida against President Obama's healthcare overhaul, meaning more than half of the country will challenge the law. The announcement was made as House members in Washington, led by Republicans, debated whether to repeal ...
• Hawaii governor can't find Obama birth certificate
  (WorldNetDaily) - Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie suggested in an interview published today that a long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate for Barack Obama may not exist within the vital records maintained by the Hawaii Department of Health...
• New Miss America says God gives her a purpose
  (One News Now) - The newly-crowned Miss America, 17-year-old Teresa Scanlan, is a mostly home-schooled Christian who pointed heavenward when she was announced as the winner Saturday night. According to the new Miss America, she wasn't the only Christian contestant in this year's pageant...
• Why you can't trust 'fiscal conservatives'
  (Joseph Farah) - I'm beginning to believe the term "fiscal conservative" is an oxymoron. As long as I have been reporting and commenting on politics (which is a long, long time), I have noticed that those promoting themselves as "fiscal conservatives" are always among the first to call for retreat o ...
• House GOP gives Obama an ultimatum on debt ceiling
  (Emily Miller) - House Republicans demand that President Obama significantly cut government spending in exchange for Congress raising the national debt ceiling...

Truth Offering

• Politicians and the Voting Public: A Toxic Relatio ...
  At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect the Uni ...
• Education v. Conditioning: Wundt, Rockefeller and ...
  John D. Rockefeller, Sr. / Wilhelm WundtSince reading "the deliberate dumbing down of america" by Charlotte Iserbyt, I've been trying to find other people out there who have also noticed the ruining of education in the United States. To be honest, it's hard to find information on this subject out th ...
• Don't Let the Oil Spoil!
  The headlines are all the same these past few weeks: oil spill continues...oil spill worst in history...oil spill won't be contained until August, etc. Today's AP article's opening paragraph reads as follows: "As the crude crept closer to Florida, the risky effort to contain the nation's worst oil s ...
• Who Owns the TV Networks by Eustace Mullins
  Having just come across the article, "Who Owns the TV Networks" by Eustace Mullins, we felt it necessary to repost it in its entirety. The article is clearly dated, and many of these players have died, but rest assured they've simply been replaced by more of the same. Although many people today are ...
• Why the VAT is BAD
  The Value Added Tax (VAT) is by no means a new idea. A regressive national sales tax initially brought to America's attention by the Nixon Administration, our country has never quite accepted it. The late, great Austrian free market economist, Murray N. Rothbard, defined the VAT as, "...a [clandesti ...

2012 Blog

• Doomsday Driver
  A woman who claimed the world was going to end in an apocalyptic earthquake Friday was arrested in the Marin Headlands on allegations of abducting four people off the streets of Berkeley and San Francisco, a federal spokeswoman said. Lark Ann Freeman, 36, of Fairfield was booked into Marin County Ja ...
• George Lucas: 2012 Believer
  Just in, via a news report quoting Seth Rogen on a meeting he had with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg: He recalls, “George Lucas sits down and seriously proceeds to talk for around 25 minutes about how he thinks the world is gonna end in the year 2012, like, for real. He thinks it.  “He’s [...] ...
• The Sun… and us
  A giant eruption (aka CME) on the far side of the Sun has some 2012ers bracing for the worst. Odds are everything will be OK, but this is one of those weeks in which the SH might hit TF. And we’ve just had a 7.0 earthquake in the Loyalty Islands. Might be nothing – but [...] Related posts:Global W ...
• 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 [... ...

Facing South

• Scarce jobs and broke budgets: What can Southern s ...
  If anyone needed evidence that the Great Recession is still reverberating through the economy, consider the situation state legislatures face as they come into session this month. Put together, states have a collective $160 billion budget shortfall for the current fiscal year. And some states are ...
• Big Oil sends regulatory wish list to Congress
  The new head of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform recently invited companies and industry groups to submit a list of regulations they'd like to see scrapped. The responses have been coming in -- but the American public isn't allowed to see them yet. That's because Chairman Dar ...
• The gayest of times, the worst of times
  By Bob Moser, Texas ObserverBobby Beltran was already having a blue Christmas. Because of his job, the 26-year-old was missing his tight-knit family's celebration back home in Brownsville for the first time. After work on Christmas night, to cheer himself up, Beltran joined some friends and ...
• State of King's Dream: Black America's economic ni ...
  As we celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it's important to take stock: Where does our country stand in realizing King's dream of a more just South and country? Historians like Michael Honey have documented how, in King's later years, the civil rights martyr broadened his ...
• 'It is love that will save our world'
  With the American people still struggling to make sense of the recent shootings in Arizona and the role that violent political rhetoric may have played, we revisit the words of the minister from Georgia who we honor this weekend. Following is the text of a sermon Martin Luther King, Jr. d ...

One News Page

• Industrialists must act as whistle blowers: Jairam
  Jairam Ramesh denied that he was going after the big fish to get into limelight.
• Verdasco comes back from the dead
• Yusuf Pathan plays a match-winning knock
• Non-UPA, non-NDA parties meet to decide on stir ov ...
  Eleven non-UPA, non-NDA political parties are likely to chalk-out a week-long agitational programme to protest price rise and highlight corruption issues, JD-S, a constituent of the group said today.
• John Travolta - Preston Endured 'silent Birth' For ...
  JOHN TRAVOLTA's actress wife KELLY PRESTON has spoken out about their decision to choose a silent birth for their baby son, in her first television interview since the couple welcomed the new addition.The Hollywood couple, also parents to daughter Ella Bleu, 10, welcomed little Benjamin ...

Global Research TV

• Visita a una escuela cubana
• Visita a un policlínico cubano
• David Swanson: War Is A Lie
• Argentina, IMF and the New World Order
• The Panama Deception: War and Media Failure

Daily Tech

• 1/19/2011 Daily Hardware Reviews
  DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Wednesday
• Chrysler's Hybrid Efforts are Back From the Dead W ...
  Chrysler 300 and an unnamed minivan will get the hybrid treatment by Chrysler LLC
• Antec Celebrates 25th Anniversary, Unveils Six Hun ...
  Case is part of the 25th anniversary gear from Antec
• AMD Airs Embedded Fusion Processors With DirectX 1 ...
  Processors will power small form-factor PCs, casino machines, and more
• Common Protein in Alzheimer's Also Helps Wire Nerv ...
  The protein presenilin helps navigate embryonic motor neurons within a network of chemical cues in order to make necessary connections to wire the nervous system

Oriental Review

• Central Asia: Top 10 Developments in 2010
  By Alexander Shustov (Russia) The present list of top 10 developments in Central Asia in 2010 was compiled on the basis of the author’s assessment of their impact on the region’s political and socioeconomic landscape. In any case, the developments surveyed below will likely have enduring repercussio ...
• Japan and India: Coming Together For a Multipolar ...
  By Rupakjyoti Borah (India) In a significant development that went largely unnoticed, India agreed to speed up the mining of its rare earth reserves during the visit of its Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Japan between October 24-26, 2010 for the annual bilateral summit. Rare earth materials find a ...
• What Is Khodorkovsky Doing His Time For (III)
  By Gregory Tinsky (Russia) Part 1 Part 2 Khodorkovsky as a one of modern Russian political system Framers During next three or four years Mikhail Khodorkovsky became one of the wealthiest people in Russia. Due to the experts’ estimates his fortune used to make up $18 billion. Time of financial affai ...
• What Is Khodorkovsky Doing His Time For? (II)
  By Gregory Tinsky (Russia) Part 1 Five grannies make a ruble Big money lacked a brand-new signboard and the diversification of business. That’s what new „Intersectorial Scientific-Technical Programs Center” — or just „MENATEP[1]” in short — was found for. Competition at the market of financial servi ...
• 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 [...]

Infoshop - Alt Media

• NYC Anarchist Book Fair Table and Presentation App ...
  The 5th Annual NYC Anarchist Book Fair will be held Saturday, April 9, 2011, at Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, NYC. Present...
• New Issue: Anarcho-Syndicalist Review #55
  The Winter 2011 issue of Anarcho-Syndicalist Review (#55) is now available. This issue features a special section on workers' culture and marks ...
• Some Anarchists Discuss What We’re Reading
  Instead of a book review column written by one person, we invited several folks to review their favorite recent books. Three responded: Cindy ...
• Resistance issue 128, December 2010 - January 2011
  Full text and PDF of the Anarchist Federation's free paper. Contents include the growing student movement in the UK, resisting the cuts, struggles ...
• Storytelling as Organizing: How to Rescue the Left ...
  In an editorial in In These Times' November 2009 issue, reflecting on the right’s success at re-framing the healthcare reform debate in i...

E U Times

• £250m bill to fund college places in UK for foreig ...
  British students suffer rising tuition fees but British government and EU forces British taxpayers to give £250 million to fund foreign students. A new storm over student fees broke out last night as it was revealed that more than £250 million a year of British taxpayers’ cash is blown on university ...
• UK’s government debt reaches £1 trillion or £40k p ...
  Britain’s government debt smashed through £1 trillion ($1.59 trillion) for the first time yesterday – a staggering £40,000 per household. Campaigners branded the milestone ‘terrifying’ and warned that taxpayers will have to foot the bill for decades to come. Debts of £1trillion – an almost unimagina ...
• HIV-positive US Air Force sergeant faces 3 of his ...
  A U.S. Air Force sergeant – accused of having unprotected sex with multiple partners at swinger parties, without telling them he is HIV-positive – faced three of his victims in a court martial hearing today. Tech Sergeant David Gutierrez, 43, is accused of violating military law by breaking a squadr ...
• UK’s government debt reaches £1 trillion or £40k p ...
  Britain’s government debt smashed through £1 trillion ($1.59 trillion) for the first time yesterday – a staggering £40,000 per household. Campaigners branded the milestone ‘terrifying’ and warned that taxpayers will have to foot the bill for decades to come. Debts of £1trillion – an almost unimagina ...
• Chinese President Hu Jintao Visits US for First Ti ...
  The Chinese president arrived in the United States on Tuesday to meet with his US counterpart, Barack Obama, in what is being billed as the most important visit of its kind in three decades. Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in the United States on Tuesday for a four-day state visit against the ba ...

Voiceless Victim

• Bill Zeller and others must not die in vain
  The tragedy of Bill Zeller’s lifetime of suffering from the effects of childhood sexual and physical abuse, which finally resulted in his recent suicide has touched people around the world. Bill was obviously a very special person and a great loss to those who knew him, and the rest of the world. Bi ...
• 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 ...

WL Central

• 2011-01-07 EFF: The Best of Cablegate: Instances W ...
  TweetEFF has chosen the cables they feel have "been critical to understanding and evaluating controversial events." Their choices: “Dancing Boy” Scandal Alleges Child Prostitution, Possible Drug Use among U.S. Private Contractors Pfizer Allegedly Sought to Blackmail Nigerian Regulator to Stop Lawsu ...
• Twitter Details & Messages of Birgitta Jónsdóttir ...
  TweetThe US Department of Justice has issued a subpoena on Twitter for material related to Birgitta Jónsdóttir, including her personal details and, it can be assumed, all her private direct messages. Ms Jónsdóttir twittered thus: department of justice are requesting twitter to provide the info - i ...
• 2011-01-08: Peter King: Zeal of Hypocrites
  TweetA month ago, on the 7th of December, a week after Peter King made his controversial Wikileaks Is Terrorism" comments, I posted this rather lengthy article to my blog, and linked to it from WL Central, documenting both King's hypocrisy and the possible motives he might have for taking such a rad ...
• 2011-01-08: U.S. DOJ Twitter Subpoena Updates
  TweetShortly after news of the subpoena issued to Twitter by the The U.S. Department of Justice emerged, an electronic copy of the subpoena surfaced and was, of course, circulated via Twitter. (A copy of the subpoena can be found here in pdf format.) Birgitta Jónsdóttir, one of 63 members of Iceland ...
• 2011-01-08: Twitter on censorship: No censorship o ...
  TweetIt was December 14 when Twitter first received the sealed order to turn over information on several of its users. Twitter could simply have provided the information requested, instead of acting, on January 5, to have the order unsealed. The unsealing of the subpoena allowed the Twitter users in ...

U N News

• UN independent human rights expert urges support f ...
  Noting the pending legal proceedings against Jean-Claude Duvalier, the former Haitian leader who returned to his home country earlier this week, the United Nations independent expert on human rights in Haiti today urged the international community to "allow justice to take its course" in the Caribbe ...
• Former Haitian leader's return raises impunity iss ...
  The return to Haiti of former Haitian leader Jean Claude Duvalier clearly raises issues of impunity and accountability, the United Nations human rights office said today, adding that it was looking into the matter.
• Haiti's recovery multi-year effort, UN humanitaria ...
  The relief effort after Haiti's devastating earthquake a year ago has helped millions of people, but a multi-year initiative with full international support is crucial to put the country on its feet, the top United Nations humanitarian official warned today.
• UN marks one-year anniversary of Haiti earthquake
  On the one-year anniversary of the earthquake which devastated Haiti, the United Nations today remembered the disaster's victims in memorial events in Port-au-Prince, New York and elsewhere around the world.
• One year on, huge challenges remain for Haitian qu ...
  On the eve of the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake that killed 220,000 Haitians and made 1.5 million others homeless, United Nations humanitarian agencies today looked back at a year of achievements, albeit at times spotty, and forward to the enormous challenges still ahead.

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