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Thomas Paine

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

Sunday, January 2, 2011

2 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt 3

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Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • Dear Blog Readers
    Look, someone has to pore over the reports coming from the Government Accountability Office, various Inspectors General, and sundry ad hoc committees. Someone has to file Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, hold the legislative and executive branches' feet to...
  • Morning Smoke: Watered Down Whistleblower Bill Too ...
    Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. Bill to...
  • Scientific Integrity Memo Could Protect Scientists ...
    In case you missed it, the White House Office of Science & Technology (OSTP) on Friday released a memorandum on scientific integrity. As noted by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), "If fully implemented by federal agencies and departments, the...
  • SEC Describes Possible Criminal Activity in Unpros ...
    Amid Crackdown on Wall Street, Government Enforcement Efforts Still Questioned By Adam Zagorin and Michael Smallberg Attorney General Eric Holder. Credit: DOJ. The Obama administration has stated it will aggressively go after Wall Street criminals, but is the government letting two defendants ...
  • Morning Smoke: Conflict of Interest Threatens Inte ...
    Gulf oil spill probe may have been compromised by Jennifer A. Dlouhy [Hearst Washington Bureau] Mercs Win Billion Dollar Afghan Cop Deal. Again. by Spencer Ackerman [Danger Room] A Leaner and Meaner Defense by Gordon Adams and Matthew Leatherman [The...

Digital Journal

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Trainers will be mostly away from Kabul?
    CTV News reports that the trainers that the Harper government has promised to keep in Afghanistan following the end of Canada’s combat mission are not likely to be mainly in Kabul, despite the government’s earlier promises (“Canadian trainers likely to be sent across Afghanistan,” CTV News, 31 Decem ...
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    Help set out Ceasefire.ca's plans for 2011.
  • U.S. ratifies New START treaty
    The U.S. Senate voted on Wednesday to accept the New START strategic nuclear disarmament treaty between Russia and the United States (Peter Baker, “Senate Passes Arms Control Treaty With Russia, 71-26,” New York Times, 22 December 2010). U.S. ratification of the treaty, signed by presidents Obama an ...
  • Canada’s dwindling peacekeepers
    The Toronto Star reports on Canada’s dwindling contribution to U.N. peacekeeping (Brett Popplewell, “Last of a dying breed: The Canadian peacekeeper,” Toronto Star, 11 December 2010): The Canadian mission in Sudan began in 2005, at the close of a 22-year civil war that saw a rebel movement in the so ...
  • Canadians split on Afghan extension
    Canadians are split on the Harper government’s plan to extend Canada’s military mission in Afghanistan reports an Angus Reid Poll released on Monday (Jill Mahoney, “Canadians divided on Afghan training mission: poll,” Globe and Mail, 13 December 2010). According to the poll, 48% of Canadians support ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Pomegranate Juice Components Block Cancer Cell Mig ...
    December 29th, 2010 Natural News By: S.L. Baker One of the most dreaded consequences of cancer is when the disease metastasizes — meaning it spreads from the primary site where it started to other parts of the body. But University of California, Riverside (UCR) scientists have announced what could b ...
  • Vitamin D Levels Found To Be Extremely Low in Wome ...
    December 29th, 2010 Natural News By: David Gutierrez Vitamin D deficiency may contribute to the development of breast cancer, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of South Carolina and presented at the Third American Association for Cancer Research Conference on the Scie ...
  • Surgeons Operated On Wrong Location in Three Spine ...
    December 29th, 2010 Boston.com By: Liz Kowalcyzk Surgeons at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center operated on the wrong location on three patients who underwent spine surgery since September, despite taking recommended steps to prevent such errors, prompting federal and state health inspectors to ci ...
  • Two Reasons to Avoid High Fructose Corn Syrup
    December 29th, 2010 Natural News By: Derrell Jones The move is on to further muddy the waters pertaining to High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS). The goal is to convince or confuse consumers into thinking that HFCS is like sugar by changing its name to Corn Sugar. While there are issues that surround pro ...
  • How To Use Mint For Natural Healing
    December 29th, 2010 Natural News By: Shona Botes Mint has been around for many years, and it is an excellent medicinal herb. There are quite a few different varieties, but the most common one is M. Piperita, which is used in most of the herbal remedies containing mint. It is one of the most versatil ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • Demonstrators ‘return’ tear gas canisters to US am ...
    Joseph Dana reports: Israeli activists protesting the killing of Bil’in’s Jawaher Abu Rahmah ‘returned’ spent tear gas canisters to the residence of the American ambassador to Israel late Saturday evening. Jawaher Abu Rahmah, 36, was evacuated to the Ramallah hospital yesterday after inhaling massi ...
  • Bradley Manning and the case against solitary conf ...
    Lynn Parramore lays out the reasons why solitary confinement is a form of torture. The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky In the earliest days of our Republic, a group of well-meaning Philadelphia Quakers set out to reform the prison syst ...
  • How WikiLeaks enlightened us in 2010
    CBS News has put together a fairly detailed summary of the major revelations provided by WikiLeaks: WikiLeaks has brought to light a series of disturbing insinuations and startling truths in the last year, some earth-shattering, others simply confirmations of our darkest suspicions about the way th ...
  • 8 smears and misconceptions about WikiLeaks spread ...
    AlterNet reports: The corporate media’s tendency to blare misinformation and outright fabrications has been particularly egregious in coverage of WikiLeaks. As Glenn Greenwald has argued, mainstream news outlets are parroting smears and falsehoods about the whistleblower site and its founder Julian ...
  • Don’t be distracted by body scanners: government s ...
    Martin Lijtmaer writes: On December 15, Bill of Rights Day, the uproar over body scanners had brought the Fourth Amendment to the front of the public debate. There are legitimate reasons to be upset over invasive, costly and arguably ineffective measures adopted in the guise of protecting national ...

Watts Up With That?

  • US Energy Independence by 2020
    Guest post by David Archibald Ira Glicksteinâs post promoting clean coal has prompted me to offer a few slides from a presentation I had prepared. One of the things that gets me about clean coal is that the same people … Continue reading →
  • Antarctic Ice Cores: The Sample Rate Problem
      Guest Post by David Middleton In my first guest post (CO2: Ice Cores vs. Plant Stomata), we discussed the merits of ice cores vs. plant stomata as paleo-CO2 measurements. One of the key stomata papers I cited was Thomas van Hoof’s … Continue reading →
  • Greenhouse Thought Experiment
    Guest post by Jeff Condon (reposted by request from The Air vent) Derek has been in a war with ScienceofDoom over the what appears to be Planck radiation. I’m actually not sure of his position because it doesn’t make sense … Continue reading →
  • New paper – “absence of correlation be ...
    WUWT readers may remember way back when…I posted this from Joe D’Aleo: Warming Trend: PDO And Solar Correlate Better Than CO2 Joe wrote then: Clearly the US annual temperatures over the last century have correlated far better with cycles in the … Continue reading →
  • Zombie satellite cured, brought back to life
    Readers may remember this story from 2010: âZombieâ satellite shuts down critical NOAA NWS systems overnight It appears the zombie has been brought back from the half dead. From Slashdot: The American telecommunications satellite Galaxy 15 has been brought under control … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Dandelion Salad Stats: 2010 in review
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Auto-generated message from WordPress.com January 1, 2011 The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter⢠reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A helper mo ...
  • Michael Hudson: Higher Taxes on Top 1% Equals High ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ www.therealnews.com Michael Hudson: History of US shows economy grows when top tier tax rates and workers wages are high Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguishe ...
  • Hell Hath No Fury Like an Empire Scorned by Willia ...
    by William Blum Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org 1 January, 2011 The Anti-Empire Report Wikileaks, the United States, Sweden, and Devil’s Island December 16 … I’m standing in the snow in front of the White House … Standing with Veterans for Peace … I’m only a veteran of standing i ...
  • New Year’s Concert 2011: Vienna Philharmonic &#821 ...
    Dandelion Salad Happy New Year!  Peace and blessings to you all.  Love, Lo RTalaricoMr | January 01, 2011 Radetzky March – New Year’s Concert 2011 – Vienna Philharmonic *** Johann Strauss – Reiter-Marsch, op. 428 – Equestrian March (Vienna 2011 New Year Concert) rudolfo6666 | January 01, 2011 Wien ...
  • New Year To Mark Intensification Of West’s War In ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism January 1, 2011 No stranger to armed conflicts over the past 70 years, the United States has completed its first decade of continuous warfare: 2001-2010. On January 1 the U.S. and its allies in the Nor ...

Your New Reality

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    Ron Paul : In a society where truth becomes treason...we are in big trouble. The truth is that our foreign spying, meddling and outright military intervention in the post-World War 2 era has made us less secure, not more, and we have lost countless lives and spent trillions of dollars for our t ...
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    A Christian South Korean Christmas Greeting To Atheist North Korea If war between South Korea & North Korea breaks out soon, you will seen footage from this Live War Rehearsal passed off in the mainstream media as footage from the actual conflict.
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    Fuck The War Fuck The War : The Movie is coming to DVD and torrents in November, 2010. In 2003, during anti-War On Iraq protests, the Australian prime minister was kidnapped by an activist and interrogated for 24 hours. The disappearance of the prime minister was officially covered up as an " ...
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    "We Cannot Allow The Corporate Takeover Of Our Democracy" 1961 : 2010 : .
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    Oh yes, this is cynical, and even bitter, but it's also an excellent and short expose of the formula so many, many Hollywood films put into the market every year. In Australia, the pressure is on producers, screenwriters and directors to turn out pap exactly like this, in the belief that the only wa ...

Wired - Science

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

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Gazan youth issue manifesto to vent their anger wi ...
    An anonymous group of students has created a document to express their frustration born of Hamas's violent crackdowns on 'western decadence', the destruction wreaked by Israel's attacks and the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Israeli forces kill female protester in Bil’in
    Jawaher Abu Rahmah, 36, was evacuated to the Ramallah hospital yesterday after inhaling massive amounts of tear-gas during the weekly protest in Bil'in, and died of poisoning this morning. Abu... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • Bil’in protester dies after exposure to tear gas s ...
    A resident of the West Bank village of Bil'in died on Saturday morning in a Ramallah hospital after she was exposed to tear gas that was shot by IDF soldiers to disperse the crowd of demonstrators... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Gideon Levy: The year of truth
    At midnight, when the French champagne is flowing like water, perhaps we will understand that next year will be the last year we can still save something, and be grateful the truth came out. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in it ...
  • Avi Shlaim: Obama and Israel – The pessimistic per ...
    The American-Israeli special relationship is a classic example of the tail that wags the dog. As a result of its palpable partiality towards Israel, America has lost all credibility in the eyes not... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Even Healthy Cats Act Sick When Their Routine Is D ...
    A cat regularly vomiting hairballs or refusing to eat probably isn't being finicky or otherwise "cat-like," despite what conventional wisdom might say.
  • American Chemical Society Greets the New Year with ...
    The American Chemical Society (ACS) today launched the International Year of Chemistry's IYC 365: Chemistry for Life, a vibrant science calendar for 2011 highlighting the great intellects and epic events that have shaped modern society through the magic of chemistry.
  • Infants Not Exempt From Obesity Epidemic
    Obesity might begin in babies as young as nine months old, a revealing new study finds.
  • Risk for Alcoholism Linked to Risk for Obesity
    Addiction researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that a risk for alcoholism also may put individuals at risk for obesity, and the association between a family history of alcoholism and obesity risk has become more pronounced in recent years.
  • Consistent Exercise Associated with Lower Risk of ...
    Consistent exercise is associated with a lower risk of dying from colon cancer, according to a new study led by Siteman Cancer Center researchers at Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. The study is among the first to show that physical activity can make the disease less de ...

Natural Health News

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

Antemedius

  • On the 25th Day of Wikileaks, My Government Gave t ...
    On the first day of Wikileaks, my government gave to me: the military in every embassy. On the second day of Wikileaks, my government gave to me: two criminal presidents. On the third day of Wikileaks, my government gave to me: three� illegal wars. On the fourth day of Wikileaks, my government gave ...
  • For CIA Drone Warriors, the Future is Death
    Originally published at Asia Times Forget the iPad; the ultimate icon of fetishized commodity is the drone. Israelis do it - and sell them like hot cakes. Mexicans do it - to patrol their side of the border. Brazilians wanna do it - to patrol the Rio favelas. Saudis wanna do it. Uzbeks wanna do it. ...
  • The Free Lunch Economy vs. The Progressive Era
    Under the first U.S. income tax law that was passed in 1913, only 1 percent of Americans were required to file income tax returns, and to be liable to file you would have had to be earning an annual income of about $120,000 in todays dollars. It was passed during a period called the Progressive Era: ...
  • Fascist America III: Resistance for the Long Haul
    Editors note: In light of recent political and economic developments and trends, we are bumping Sara Robinson's three part series from August 2009 to our front page again this week. Links to all three are at the bottom of each post. Here is part three... Originally published at OurFuture.org August, ...
  • President Obama Loses the Plot on Guantánamo
    Originally published at http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/ On December 22, during a largely self-congratulatory news conference by President Obama, dealing with a number of achievements notched up in the last session before the Democrats lose control of the House of Representatives (including the ne ...

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

  • Indian + Diplomatic Passport = TSA Profile Match
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Another Indian diplomat gets the treatment, this time in Austin.  Colum Lynch has this useful wrap in WaPo on the issue of diplomats and security screening, see also my post about another recent incident in Mississippi. I don’t get it:  Why don’t diplomats get a pa ...
  • Kenya Moves Closer to Withdrawing from the ICC
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller This according to the BBC: Kenyan MPs have voted overwhelmingly for the country to pull out of the treaty which created the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The move comes a week after the ICC prosecutor named six Kenyans he accuses of being be ...
  • I Really Don’t Want to Know What the Prize Is
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller When Fox News isn’t busy making people dumber, it’s writing chyrons like this:
  • Ben Wittes and American Exceptionalism
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Ben describes as “puzzling” my claim that his recent post on WikiLeaks reflects American exceptionalism.  I find his puzzlement equally puzzling.  Recall the quote on which I focused: This, in turn, leads ineluctibly to Tomâs reciprocity point: If Congre ...
  • The Cover of My Book on the NMTs
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Oxford has sent me the initial version of the book cover.  Here it is: The painting, “The Red Stairway,” is by Ben Shahn, a Lithuanian-born American artist who painted between the 1920s and the 1950s.  In 1942 and 1943, Shahn created propaganda poste ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • 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...
  • BREAKING: Hottest year ever claims based on fake d ...
    You hear it trotted out so often it's tiresome, but for those who still believe the climate scientists who claim 2010 is "the hottest year ever", here's a wake-up call: the data is fake. (another perspective here) It's a similar...

My Care2 Picks

  • What Do Afghans Think of the War? Ask Them! | War ...
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  • Our Dick Cheney
    Dec 31 'Language warning'...but funny regardlessSubmitted by John Farnham to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Jan 1, 2011 - New Hungarian Media Law Reinstates T ...
    Org for Security&Cooperation in Europe warns new law �simply not .. compatible with .. democracy;� can impose fines high as $950,000; seize reporters� notes; more! Ominous signs hard to dismiss. Luxembourg even questions whether Hungary's fit to lead EU Submitted by PeasantDiva WorldMinga to World ...
  • 2010 : The Year I Gave Up on Afghanistan
    Afghanistan represented a game that's not worth the candle. It was that farce in Marjah that was the final straw for me. The Pentagon PR shops went into overtime and sold a Potemkin version of Marjah that had no basis in reality. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �A ...
  • The Idea That Drug Addicts Should Be Treated, Not ...
    Hundreds of doctors, politicians, researchers and frontline workers met with drug users and ex-users in Austin, Texas, in December to openly talk about drug use : featuring discussions on opening needle exchanges, legalizing and regulating the drug tradeSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov ...

Angry Indian News

  • Israelis Resist Their Own Arabs :: www.uruknet.inf ...
    Israelis Resist Their Own Arabs :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]: "RAMALLAH, Jan 1, 2011 (IPS) - A number of recent incidents... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Crowdleak: Breakthrough in Litvinenko case
    Crowdleak: Breakthrough in Litvinenko case: "In November 2006, Alexander V. Litvinenko, a former Russian secret service agent, was fatally poisoned with radioactive Polonium-210 in London. Alexander... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Crowdleak: Zimbabwean military controls diamonds
    Crowdleak: Zimbabwean military controls diamonds: "Military expansion in Zimbabwe, beginning in November 2008, has displaced the Zimbabwean police and diverted the diamond flow from the Reserve Bank... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Maan News Agency: Abbas lays first stone of Brazil ...
    Maan News Agency: Abbas lays first stone of Brazil embassy: "BRASILIA (AFP) - President Mahmoud Abbas laid the first stone Friday of what will become a Palestinian embassy in Brazil, the most... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Maan News Agency: Center: Escalation in Israeli vi ...
    Maan News Agency: Center: Escalation in Israeli violations in Jerusalem: "JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli violations of human rights in Jerusalem escalated in December, particularly in the Silwan... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Taliban bounty flyerImage via WikipediaRep. Peter King to Ramp Up Immigration Crackdown
    ShareThisRep. Peter King to Ramp Up Immigration Crackdown 28 Dec 2010 Rep. Peter King (R) plans to use his new bully pulpit to target immigration. The New York congressman, who will become the new chairman of the House Homeland Security next week, told the New York Post that he will push for legisla ...
  • US's Napolitano to hear air security tips in Israe ...
    ShareThisUS's Napolitano to hear air security tips in Israel 02 Jan 2011 US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will use a visit to Israel this week to assess passenger vetting and other counter-terrorism measures at its Ben-Gurion Airport, government officials said on Sunday. Napolitano, w ...Official portrait of United States Secretary o...Image via Wikipedia
  • Govt accused of blocking investigations of UK invo ...
    ShareThisGovt accused of blocking investigations of UK involvement in torture and rendition --MPs refused the facts on UK's part in rendition cases 02 Jan 2011 The Government is accused of blocking investigations into allegations of UK involvement in torture and rendition, contrary to its proclaimed ...
  • Police demand new stop and search powers after hum ...
    ShareThisPolice demand new stop and search powers after human rights ruling scraps previous law 30 Dec 2010 Police are hoping to win government backing for a new counter-terrorism power to stop and search people without the suspicion of criminal activity. Officers say the powers are needed to better ...
  • Fighters scrambled and Capital building evacuated ...
    ShareThisFighters scrambled and Capital building evacuated as 'mystery' aircraft flies over Washington 02 Jan 2010 A mystery aircraft prompted an evacuation of the Capitol building and scrambling of military fighter jets today�- but authorities said the false alarm was caused by a commercial airline ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • 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...
  • BREAKING: Hottest year ever claims based on fake d ...
    You hear it trotted out so often it's tiresome, but for those who still believe the climate scientists who claim 2010 is "the hottest year ever", here's a wake-up call: the data is fake. (another perspective here) It's a similar...

Mondoweiss

  • What really happened in Bil’in
    I was at the demo on Friday and at the funeral on Saturday -- along with Jen Marlowe and Andrew El Kadi. Also Dorothy Zellner came with me on Saturday. Hundreds of Palestinians from the border area villages, internationals, and Israelis gathered in Bil'in for the Friday demonstration. Notables li ...
  • Gideon Levy: 2010 was the year the truth came out
    On the developments of 2010 looking back--the conquest of Israeli politics by the settler movement; the avowal or encouragement (via Lieberman and Netanyahu) of an attitude of contempt for peacemakers; the surrender to an overriding concern with the image of legitimacy without regard to truth or jus ...
  • What a pathetic reveal: Barack sat at Barak’ ...
    Haaretz is saying that the U.S. is angry at Defense Minister Ehud Barak for lying about the progress of the peace process. Hillary too. Here is what I don't understand: Barak as prime minister had an open line to Bill Clinton throughout 2000 "peace process." That's in Clayton Swisher's book and Aaro ...
  • Demonstrators ‘return’ tear gas canisters to US am ...
    Israeli activists protesting the killing of Bil’in’s Jawaher Abu Rahmah ‘returned’ spent tear gas canisters to the residence of the American ambassador to Israel late Saturday evening. Jawaher Abu Rahmah, 36, was evacuated to the Ramallah hospital yesterday after inhaling massive amounts of tear ...
  • Scenes from Jawaher Abu Rahmah’s funeral
    All photos by Hamde Abu Rahmah: � � � �

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: Health Matters Part 2
    BISPHENAL A PLASTIC is deadly. It leaks a synthetic hormone which mimics Estrogene & is present in most common store-bought products, also found in the lining of all soup cans. Long term effects include Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Androgeny. It should be noted that in the original tests th ...
  • VRM: Health Matters Part 1
    A compromised immune system is more susceptible to infection. Some areas of concern - Anyone with Hyper/Hypothyroidism needs to redouble their efforts to rapidly cleanse the system. The Thyroid Gland is key to overall health. Produces T3 & T4 hormones (Iodine Atoms). Iodine helps regulate metabol ...
  • VRM: The Dark Side of The Vitamin K Shot
    Apart from the trauma inflicted on a newborn of getting the shot, the amount of Vitamin K injected into newborns is 20,000 times the needed dose. The injection also contains a preservative, Benzyl alcohol, that can be especially toxic for your babyâs delicate, young immune system. A parent has to k ...
  • VRM: UK Institutes Brand of Medical Martial Law Wi ...
    As of January 1st, 2011, all children in the UK, upon reaching the age of 1, will be subject to a one stop, 6 vaccine assault. In what is being labeled ‘Super-vaccination’ day, babies will now get a series of 3 injections in one visit, a combination of the Measles, Mumps, Rubella [...]
  • VRM: Vaccine Clinic – A Concise Compendium To The ...
    PRIMARY FACTORS WHICH DETERMINE THE EXTENT OF VACCINE RELATED NEUROLOGICAL DAMAGE: 1. POINT OF ENTRY Vaccines are injected into deep muscle tissue, a route which literally bypasses one’s natural defences altogether. Thus the body is left vulnerable to live viruses, heavy metals, antibiotics, deterge ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Winter Haven Native's War Dispatches Have Worldwid ...
    Please click here to view entire article in the Lakeland Ledger. {loadposition user8}
  • The Jungle Twins
    01 January 2011 In October 2010, a rare set of elephant twins was born in Thailand, leading to vibrant media interest.� The birth was a happy surprise partly because it had been the second set of twins born in Thailand in 2010.� Many Thais consider this auspicious, and two sets of twins in one ye ...
  • Hostages Press Release
    www.thethayerhotel.com/ Please Click here to view the entire story. {loadposition user8}
  • Shooting Star
    16 December 2010Six years ago this week, I was packing for my first trip to Iraq.� Been a long road. Earlier this week, the annual Geminids meteor shower was a beautiful sight to behold.� Using 4 cameras, I made about 3,600 photos over the Andaman Sea.�� Due to computer issues, I�ve been able to re ...
  • Ripley’s Believe it Or Not
    14 December 2010 Ripley�s Believe it or Not has asked to publish one of my photos in their next book.� This photo was made in Sangin, Afghanistan during the last time I was with British forces.� Sangin is the most dangerous place in the country.� The enemy is good and the fighting is serious.� The ...

The Killing Train

  • Raj Patel's "Value of Nothing"
    For various reasons I found myself with several hours on public transit and with Raj Patel's fine book "The Value of Nothing" in hand. I really liked a few things about it. First, it's a very readable summary of a lot of economic theories (and ideologies) that guide policies today. For a more mathem ...
  • A short video on Toronto Star's recent G20 coverag ...
    Three minutes on technology and protests, focusing on the Toronto Star's recent G20 coverage, especially Rosie DiManno's articles.
  • Thoughts on Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows"
    After a couple of recommendations from a couple of different directions, I read Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows: What the internet is doing to our brains". It combines neuroplasticity research (which I read about in Norman Doidge's "The Brain that Changes Itself") with ideas about a literary, print-ba ...
  • "Santa" Ford just stole 1000 jobs from the future
    Yesterday's headlines in Toronto newspapers were about how Rob Ford and City Council repealed the $60 vehicle registration tax. The Toronto Sun went as far as painting a beard on a picture of Ford, calling him Santa, and referring to the tax repeal as a christmas gift to Toronto. Another advance aga ...
  • Spinning the leaks
    My daily routine these days includes going to the Wikileaks twitter feed (twitter.com/wikileaks), which took me to this story in the UK Guardian about how Saudi Arabia proposed an Arab force to invade Lebanon. The Guardian is definitely the best site on the Wikileaks, and for data in general - they ...

treehugger

  • A Spoof Video Fires Back at Chevron's Greenwashing
    If you've seen the commercials that make up Chevron's new "We Agree" campaign, you might well be infuriated. Despite its refusal to take responsibility for dumping 16.8 million gallons of crude oil into the Ecuadorian Amazon in 1992, Chevron has a new self-image of a benevolent oil company. It s ...
  • 900 Pound Bull Escapes While Being Transported to ...
    Photo: Tony the Misfit A 900 pound bull just disappeared according to a story in the Daily Item. The bull was being transported to slaughter when the massive creature escaped and led authorities on an hour long chase along a highway near Danville, Va....Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • Students Reconstruct Speedo Suits Into Green Fashi ...
    Photo: Speedo When governing body of the sport of swimming FINA (Federation Internationale de Natation) made a change in rules preventing the use of body suits in competitive swimming, the Speedo LZR Racer suit--worn by the likes of Michael Phelps--became surplus overnight. Fortunately, teams o ...
  • For the Sea Productions Suggests a New Year's Res ...
    Image: For the Sea Productions Can you identify what lurks in the photo above? Is it a starship limping home through darkest space after a battle to the near death? Another newly identified nightmare fish from the ocean depths? Or is it just an ordinary everyday household object? All is reveale ...
  • Should Dangerously Cold Homes Be Illegal?
    Image credit: Stuart Pilbrow, used under Creative Commons license. Earlier this week I reported on how more Brits die from cold than Siberians, and the Government has previously faced court action for not tackling the issue of fuel poverty. Now a coalition of campaigners is stepping up the figh ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • UN pledges to defend Ouattara and warns of consequ ...
    [JURIST] Officials from the United Nations [official website] on Friday warned [UN News Centre report] supporters of ousted Ivory Coast [CIA backgrounder; JURIST news archive] president Laurent Gbagbo not to attack the Golf Hotel, where UN peacekeeping forces now stand guard over president-elect Ala ...
  • Washington Supreme Court upholds indefinite solita ...
    [JURIST] The Washington Supreme Court ruled [opinion, PDF] 7-2 on Thursday that holding death row inmates in solitary confinement indefinitely is not an impermissible increase in the severity of punishment. The suit was initiated by Jonathan Gentry, who was sentenced to death in 1991 for the rape an ...
  • Texas challenges EPA emissions rule
    [JURIST] The state of Texas filed a petition [text, PDF; press release] Thursday in the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit [official website] asking the court to overturn rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions [JURIST news archive] set to go into effect January 2. The petition challenges the le ...
  • Thai protesters sentenced for 2008 television stat ...
    [JURIST] The Bangkok Criminal Court sentenced 84 members of Thailand's People's Alliance for Democracy Network (PAD) [party website, in Thai; BBC Backgrounder], known as the "yellow shirt" movement, to between six and 30 months in prison Thursday for their roles in a 2008 invasion of a Thai televisi ...
  • China executes top corruption official for taking ...
    [JURIST] A former Chinese corruption official was executed on Thursday for accepting more than 4.7 million USD in bribes. Zeng Jinchun, a chief inspector for the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) [official website] in the central province of Hunan, accepted bribes in return for mining contracts ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • A Primary Challenge to Obama?
    The apoplexy of loud liberals probably won't be enough to spur a credible primary challenge to President Obama. That's because Obama enjoys extremely high approval ratings among African Americans, who are not likely to desert him for anyone else, because the White House and the Democratic National C ...
  • WikiLeaks: One Analyst, So Many Documents
    To date, Bradley Manning stands accused only of providing a classified video of U.S. operations in Iraq to WikiLeaks. But U.S. government officials say they consider Manning the prime suspect behind the flood of documents that have wound up being promulgated by the group determined to bust U.S. secr ...
  • After North Korean Attack, Obama Waits for Beijing
    In the wake of North Korea's artillery fusillade, President Obama's foreign-policy team is looking to see whether China, which has the most leverage with the isolated regime, responds in a way that the administration considers productive. MORE FROM NATIONAL JOURNAL: Ostrich Oversight? ...
  • I Am a Blogger No Longer
    This is my final blog post for The Atlantic. Five years ago, as a way to boost the competitive metabolism of The Hotline, Chuck Todd hired me away from ABC News to create "Hotline On Call."  I was to be the first political reporter working for a mainstream news organization whose output would be exc ...
  • Billy Joel Explains the Election
    What explains the partial collapse of the Democratic Party in the industrial Midwest? Billy Joel, in Allentown, caught the moment decades before it happened...the last time the economy in Pennsylvania transitioned away from coal and steel.  Educated, hard-working people. The generational tension. Th ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • U.S. Homeland Security to Study Israeli Airline Se ...
    Janet Napolitano will be visiting Israel in the coming days and plans to meet with Israeli airport security officials because they do such a sterling job of rooting out Arab terror by profiling any traveler with any personal quality or characteristic that smacks remotely of being Arab or an Arab sym ...
  • Israeli TV Reports About Asgari Possible Death in ...
    The fallout of my reporting on the case of Iranian Revolutionary Guard general Ali Reza Asgari is developing along many fronts.  Most readers will know that I reported, based on an Israeli source, that Asgari was Prisoner X, housed in Ayalon Prison and that he had been murdered earlier this month b ...
  • Iran’s Defense Minister Confirms Asgari Death, IDF ...
    The Kabuki-like drama of the suicide/murder of Iranian Revolutionary Guard general Ali Reza Asgari in Ayalon Prison continues to deepen.  Today, Ynetnews reports that the IDF circulated an unprecedented warning letter to all reserve officers warning them that Iranian agents might take revenge on th ...
  • Iranian General Murdered in Israel’s Ayalon Prison ...
    Hold on to your hats because this post is going to be a wild ride.  New and astonishing developments in the case of Prisoner X, known to a source within Ehud Barak’s inner circle as Ali Reza Asgari, retired Iran Revolutionary Guard general and former deputy defense minister. I exposed the name of P ...
  • Wikileaks: State Department Lied, Denying Dubai As ...
    List submitted by Dubai to State Dept. of credit cards used by Mossad killers On February 25, 2010, State Department spokesperson Philip Crowley lied when he told a press conference that he wasn’t aware of any request from Dubai for assistance in tracking the Mossad killers of Mahmoud al-Mabouh.  T ...

Ode Magazine

  • Ode's top 10 positive stories from 2010
    By: EmilyAviles Good news rarely makes the headlines... except in Ode. To celebrate 2010 - and anticipate more good news to come in 2011 - here are Ode's 10 most positive stories from the year that was. 1. Fixing the fr ...
  • How peace entails dropping ego and desire
    By: PeaceCorso Sathya Sai Baba, born as Sathyanarayana Raju, on 23 November 1926, is a popular Indian guru, spiritual figure and educator. He is described by his devotees as an avatar, godman, spiritual teacher and miracle worker. Sathya Sai Baba has said: Peo ...
  • Miyako: A picture of pursuit
    By: Anne Thomas As I watch the many fundamental changes sweeping the world, I find that the young people I teach are either completely taken up with them, or pretty overwhelmed. And I have found among my university students that most often their focus on change lie ...
  • The independent bookstore that could
    By: Jeremy Mercer One can’t help but feel the past decade has been Biblically awful for independent booksellers. There was the plague of big chain stores like Barnes & Noble who introduced heavy discounts on bestsellers that couldn’t be matched by smaller stores wi ...
  • The goal of history is peace
    By: PeaceCorso I’d never thought of history having a goal, per se, have you? Consider these words from educational philosopher and dean of Yale Law School Robert Maynard Hutchins (January 17, 1899 - May 17, 1977): "The goal toward which all history tends ...

OpEd News

Switchboard

  • Happy Birthday to the Clean Air Act -- 40 Years Yo ...
    We've been celebrating the Clean Air Act's 40th anniversary�a lot this year, but today is the old girl's actual birthday.�President Richard M. Nixon signed the 1970 Clean Air Act into law on the last day of that year.� In his remarks, he saluted the new law as the achievement of leader ...
  • Yellowstone Grizzlies and the Betrayal of the Publ ...
    The December 30, 2010, AP story about the status of Yellowstone grizzly bears deserves a response, especially to misleading statements made by government officials responsible for recovery of the grizzlies in this ecosystem, and for the safety of the public.  First, one inaccuracy cen ...
  • Wildlife Roundup: The Good News
    Here are some good news stories about wildlife conservation to help warm you up in the winter months.  Happy New Year everyone! Chinook salmon are making a comeback in Oregon’s Rogue River a mere three years after four dams were removed, freeing up 157 miles of fish habitat.  Should ...
  • California Finally Takes Leadership on Hexavalent ...
    California is ringing in the new year with the announcement of a strong proposal for a health-based goal to protect drinking water from hexavalent chromium. Today Cal/EPA’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) announced a draft Public Health Goal of 0.02 parts per b ...
  • China counts £130bn cost of economic growth and ot ...
    NRDC has been working in China for fifteen years on such issues as climate, energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy, governance and law, health, and green supply chain issues. This China Environmental News Alert is a weekly compilation of news from around the world on China an ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • A Return to Towton…
    A reader sends along an alternative analysis of the gravesites at Towton: Allow me to caution you to be a bit wary of the conclusions from this particular paper. Whereas the team of pathologists was technically skilled and got the bone analysis correct, they were young and had no experience whatsoev ...
  • Bad Day at the Big Ten
    Has any conference ever lost five bowl games in the same day? Related posts:Bowl Mania Reminder West is Best All Hail the LGM Bowl Mania Victor! Related posts:Bowl Mania Reminder West is Best All Hail the LGM Bowl Mania Victor!
  • Isn’t This Excuse Getting A Little Old?
    Shorter Col. Mustard: “I believe I’m the millionth person to quote Ted Kennedy’s Bork speech as if it was ipso facto beyond the pale, without actually noting anything in it that was inaccurate.” What a justice who lost an up-or-down vote has to do with the unwillingness on the part of Senate minorit ...
  • Information, Freedom and “Tron: Legacy&#8221 ...
    It hasn’t exactly been getting great reviews: the 1982 version had a plump, red thumbs-up rating of 69% on Rotten Tomatoes, whereas the sequel is at a festering, sickly 49%. Most of the bad reviews fall into the “meh” category: all glitz, no story. But there’s also push-back by those who see some ‘ ...
  • On Palin’s Chances
    Silver’s take is, as always, worth reading.   To me, Palin still clearly has a serious chance of getting the 2012 nomination, and the key is point #3.   The GOP establishment is clearly going to unite against a candidate who might be historically weak, but if there’s a George W. Bush among prosp ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Top Cited Article in the Journal of Human Evolutio ...
    Dr. Glenn Berger is lead author in top-cited article in Journal of Human Evolution. The article "Luminescence chronology of cave sediments at the Atapuerca paleoanthropological site, Spain" was the top-cited article published in the Journal of Human Evolution for the period of 2008 to 2010.
  • DRI Researcher Published in Nature Geoscience
    The atmosphere over the Dead Sea, researchers have found, is laden with oxidized mercury. Some of the highest levels of oxidized mercury ever observed outside the polar regions exist there.
  • Taking Your Home’s Energy Temperature
    An article authored by DRI Associate Research Professor Emeritus Charles “Fred “Rogers, Ph.D., outlines the best practices for homeowners who are looking to save money on their home heating and cooling bills.
  • DRI Researcher Earns National Science Foundation M ...
    DRI Research Professor Hans Moosmüller, Ph.D. and colleagues received $649,801 from the National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program to develop a Photo-Acoustic Light Absorption and Albedo Spectrometer (PALAAS) for the characterization of aerosol radiative forcing in the ...
  • DRI Researcher Develops Bioengineering Company
    DRI’s Joseph J. Grzymski, Ph.D. partnered with Adam G. Marsh, Ph.D. from the University of Delaware to develop Evozym Biologics, a company created to bridge the gap between research and innovation and commercial value.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • Secretary Clinton Wishes All Haitians a Happy Inde ...
    Despite all Haiti has endured, Haitians have shown an unflagging strength, will, and passion to forge ahead and build a more prosperous nation. The people and government of the United States stand firmly with the people of Haiti, and we are committe
  • Mozambique Fishing Vessel Seized By Somali Pirates
    Number of sea-jacked vessels exceeds the pirates' catch of 2009 - all time record, despite the fact that over 25 nations regularly patrol these waters.
  • TechWomen Offers Technical MentorshipTraining to M ...
    The application deadline for mentee participants is 8am GMT, February 1, 2011. The online application and recommendation letters must be submitted at this time. Please note that incomplete applications will not be considered.
  • Sherman Williams Plans to Give Evander Holyfield a ...
    Williams (34-11-2, 19 KOs), who is at training camp in Ft. Lauderdale (FL) with his head trainer, John David Jackson, feels disrespected by Holyfield (43-10-2, 218 KOs) heading into their 12-round main event for Holyfield's World Boxing Federation
  • Bhopal Starts The Year With Colorful Rose Show
    Come winter and capital city of Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal held shows which exhibits its flora - Bonsai's and Roses. This is organized every year but this time after gap of 15 years Bhopal's had organized show of Chrysanthemum plant.

environment 360

  • Rare Asian Elephant Filmed in Cambodian Forest Res ...
    The New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has released what it says is the first high-quality video footage of the elusive Asian elephant in the wild in Cambodia, where civil war and environmental degradation have made sightings of the animal rare. The video, shot by photographer Allan ...
  • Interview: As Arctic Ocean Melts, Can Ice Refuge S ...
    With the Arctic Ocean heading toward a largely ice-free state in summer by mid-century, scientists are looking closely at areas that may retain remnant sea ice and help preserve ice-dependent creatures. Researchers have identified a key spot north of Canada and Greenland, which they say could be a k ...
  • Booms Used in Gulf Oil Spill to be Recycled in Pro ...
    The plastic booms used to absorb oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year will be recycled for use as parts in the plug-in electric Chevrolet Volt. General Motors officials say the recycled oil extracted from the booms will be converted into 100,000 pounds of plastic resin pellets that ...
  • Digital Billboards Consume Large Amounts of Energy ...
    The growing number of digital billboards on U.S. roads and highways consume large amounts of energy and are creating a wide variety of electronic waste, according to a new report. The new study says the typical digital billboard consumes about 30 times as much energy as the average American househol ...
  • In China, a New Transparency On Government Polluti ...
    The Chinese government has begun to make environmental records available to the public, empowering green groups and citizens as they try to force factories — and the Western companies they supply — to comply with the law. BY CHRISTINA LARSON

Red Ice Creations

  • Lightning Captured by X-Ray Camera - A First
    The first x-ray images of a lightning strike have been captured by a, well, lightning-fast camera, scientists say. The pictures suggest a lightning bolt carries all its x-ray radiation in its tip. During recent thunderstorms in Camp Blanding, Florida, the camera's electronic shutter "froze" a lightn ...
  • 10 New Year's Re-Solutions For Non-violent Rebelli ...
    As the United States edges closer to becoming a third world country; anger, frustration, and cynicism continue to mount in the minds of the American population. In fact, a recent Pew Research poll showed that 80% of baby boomers are pessimistic about America's future. This pessimism seems warranted ...
  • Food safety bill invokes Codex harmonization and g ...
    Of all the talk about S.510, virtually no one has actually read the language in the bill -- especially not those lawmakers who voted for it. The more you read from this bill, the more surreal it all becomes. For example, did you know there's a global FDA power grab agenda hidden in the Food Safety M ...
  • CNN: 10 ways a digital Big Brother can be good for ...
    The opening passage from George Orwell's "1984" depicts a guy hustling up a stairwell that's plastered with giant posters of a man's face staring at him. "It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move," Orwell writes in the classic dystopian novel. ...
  • Winter Solstice, Total Lunar Eclipse & Ursid Meteo ...
    An extremely rare astronomical event is slated for this coming Tuesday, as a total lunar eclipse occurs on the same day as the winter solstice. The last time this occurred was in 1638 and it won't happen again until 2094. A total lunar eclipse occurs when the moon passes through Earth's shadow. The ...

Russia Today

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

  • Binnall of America: Christmas Annual With Stanton ...
    Tim Binnall, that most erudite host of Binnall of America “dot com”, broadcasted his Christmas Annual with guest Stanton Friedman on December 23rd and discussed the usual fare; UFOs, MJ-12, nuclear physics, mainstream science his new book and takes email questions from the audience. Tim outdoes hims ...
  • The Paracast: “In Search of the Men In Black ...
    This past Sunday (12/26/10) Gene Steinberg and co-hosts Chris O’Brien and Greg Bishop speak with Tim âMr. UFOâ Beckley , Claudia Cunningham, and T. Allen Greenfield about the ubiquitous “Men In Black” (not the movies) and the role they play in the paranormal. As a subject, I know very little abou ...
  • Faster Not Better?
    When talking about interstellar probes in the mainstream, the matter of speed always come up. Usually that speed is the speed of light, and how at the present we can’t obtain that with our current state of rocket technology. But at Paul Gilster’s Centauri Dreams blog, ideas flow like clear, clean wa ...
  • The Great False Wall of China
    From io9′s Mad Science: Scientists in China were able to make a “false wall” in an incredible demonstration of illusion optics. Find out why you shouldn’t believe your eyes anymore, thanks to physics.China has been in the business of building walls for a long, long time. Recently, they’ve added a ne ...
  • Lloyd Pye: In Defense of Zecharia Sitchin
    From Paranormal Utopia: Zecharia Sitchin was an author famous for “The Earth Chronicles” series of books about the writings of the ancient Sumerians (circa 5,000 years ago) as he interpreted them. He was one of perhaps 200 people in the world, if that many, who could translate cuneiform, the symboli ...

Tippers News

  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against human ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The real terrorist was me - US Soldier -
    The Truth from a American Soldier who fought in an Unjust WAR in Iraq; thankfully his conscience willed him to admit that it was just a war for the rich elite few to get richer and had nothing to do with Patriosm or Security of Americans.He is a True HeroSubmitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • BRUTAL TRUTH Of IRAQ WAR
    'War' on any country is a 'Terrorist Act.' How can it be anything else?? People sit in their cosy homes; happy and Falsely believing that the soldiers are in a Patriotic War; Well see for yourself and ask Whats Patriotic about Suffering of Human Beings?Submitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov't � ...

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Teaching online with WordPress.com
    In the fall semester of 2010, I taught a graduate course called New Media and a Democratic Society using a WordPress.com blog as both syllabus and the means of delivering all assignments. The class did meet face to face once a week for presentations and discussions, but otherwise, everything about t ...
  • Skills for journalists: Again, the question
    What skills does today’s journalist need to have? I do not think this question has only one answer. In a comment on a blog post by Robert Hernandez, Michael Grimaldi wrote: The highest skill of journalism is knowing the number of questions to ask, how many people of whom to ask them, and then rep ...
  • Data journalism and programmer journalists
    Some good stuff on this topic: Debate over journalism’s required skills gets heated, by Robert Hernandez: I do not believe you need to master programming to succeed in journalism. I do believe you need to respect and understand the power of each and every craft, not just programming, but photog ...
  • Nitpicking some myths about digital journalism
    Andy Boyle wrote a response to Mark S. Luckie’s blog post 5 myths about digital journalism, and because I left a comment on Mark’s post, Andy called me out on Twitter. Now, I know Mark a little and Andy not at all (except via his tweets), but I think they are both bright and sincere young journalist ...
  • Online video, audiences, sharing: Putting it all t ...
    I thought about titling this post “Another stupid way news sites waste time and effort by failing to understand the Web and how people use it,” but I thought maybe that was far too broad, since it covers so many things. This post is really about how journalism organizations could use video intellig ...

Facing South

  • Eight homeless youth die in New Orleans fire -- wh ...
    By Bill Quigley Eight young people, who the Fire Department said were "trying to stay warm," perished in a raging fire early Tuesday morning in New Orleans. The young people were squatting in an abandoned wood framed tin walled warehouse in a Ninth Ward neighborhood bordering a large train yard. Th ...
  • YOU are the answer
    Let's play a little Facing South Jeopardy. Here's the answer: YOU. Now -- can you guess the question? If you said, "How is Facing South going to reach its holiday fundraising goal for the Institute Investigative Fund?" then ding! We have a winner! Actually, we already have lots of winners: Si ...
  • New Orleans gets table scrap in GO Zone lending fe ...
    By Ariella Cohen, The Lens As Louisiana wraps its Gulf Opportunity Zone lending program, only 3 percent of the $7.8 billion went to projects in New Orleans, a review of state records show. Though the program was intended to generate recovery and jobs in the areas most affected by ...
  • Top Facing South stories of 2010: Part 1
    Thank you, dear readers, for another great year at Facing South! Due to your loyal readership and support (there's still time to chip in for our holiday fundraiser!), 2010 was a big success here at your favorite experiment in Southern-fried, non-profit, independent journalism. Here's what I'm mos ...
  • How does the biggest prison strike in American his ...
    By Mark Anthony Neal, TheLoop21.com In September of 1971, more than a thousand prisoners at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, NY revolted in what eventually became one of the most famous prison standoffs in American history. Before the insurrection was bloodily quelled on orders of then N ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • U.S. Dual-Track Policy in Somalia
    In a country with layers of complexity, clan warfare and a broken state, the Obama administration is taking an appropriately complex approach to stabilizing Somalia, one that may or may not bear fruit.
  • Preventing Maternal Deaths in West Africa
    Dr. Fredanna M'Cormack and her Bele Uman Project are working in Sierra Leone to save the lives of pregnant mothers and their babies.
  • Interview with Kumi Naidoo
    The Greenpeace executive director talks about connections between the environment, poverty, peace, and how the interconnectedness of these issues can drive civil society.
  • Zimbabweans Still Suffering
    On a daily basis, the people of Zimbabwe face starvation, poverty, corruption and oppression, and their government is highly unlikely to bail them out anytime soon.
  • Re: Blood Diamonds: Still Bloody
    We are seeing a steadily growing tide of discontent with the Kimberley Process.

Canadian Encyclopedia

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • What can I reuse or recycle to make Christmas crac ...
    I’ve had “make crackers” on my ideas list for a while and every time I saw it, I thought “mmm crackers” but it turns out I meant Christmas crackers. (Although I do make a good eatin’ cracker as well – I’d highly recommend these honey glazed fennel seed ones, and am perfecting the ingredient levels [ ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle “disposable&#8221 ...
    We’ve had an email from Philip, asking about disposable hair nets: I work in food production (ready meal factory) and have to wear a hair net whenever I’m on the floor. Some staff have proper hats but the rest of us have to have single use hair nets. Management say it’s cheaper but I think [...]
  • What can I reuse or recycle to make a draft exclud ...
    Ok, put your hand up if you’re cold. I’m guessing everyone in the northern hemisphere is waving at their computers right now. It’s pretty brr. On my frugal/cooking/growing blog The Really Good Life, I’ve written about the five frugal ways I’ll be keeping warm this winter – but one thing I missed off ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle old net curtains?
    We’ve had an email from Shannon: We’ve got loads of net curtains from the days before we all realised they were naff! They’re chintzy and are nylon or polyester or something. Do you have any recycling ideas? If they’re still in good condition, you could try passing them on – ask on Freecycle/Freegle ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle a dog’s leather c ...
    Earlier in the week, I had a to-the-point email from Cubby asking: how can i recycle a leather dog collar? My first thought was keeping using it/pass it on – but then I remembered that we’ve got an old leather collar of Lily’s here after the metal work rusted and snapped off in a not-easy-to-fix [.. ...

Mondoweiss

  • What really happened in Bil’in
    I was at the demo on Friday and at the funeral on Saturday -- along with Jen Marlowe and Andrew El Kadi. Also Dorothy Zellner came with me on Saturday. Hundreds of Palestinians from the border area villages, internationals, and Israelis gathered in Bil'in for the Friday demonstration. Notables li ...
  • Gideon Levy: 2010 was the year the truth came out
    On the developments of 2010 looking back--the conquest of Israeli politics by the settler movement; the avowal or encouragement (via Lieberman and Netanyahu) of an attitude of contempt for peacemakers; the surrender to an overriding concern with the image of legitimacy without regard to truth or jus ...
  • What a pathetic reveal: Barack sat at Barak’ ...
    Haaretz is saying that the U.S. is angry at Defense Minister Ehud Barak for lying about the progress of the peace process. Hillary too. Here is what I don't understand: Barak as prime minister had an open line to Bill Clinton throughout 2000 "peace process." That's in Clayton Swisher's book and Aaro ...
  • Demonstrators ‘return’ tear gas canisters to US am ...
    Israeli activists protesting the killing of Bil’in’s Jawaher Abu Rahmah ‘returned’ spent tear gas canisters to the residence of the American ambassador to Israel late Saturday evening. Jawaher Abu Rahmah, 36, was evacuated to the Ramallah hospital yesterday after inhaling massive amounts of tear ...
  • Scenes from Jawaher Abu Rahmah’s funeral
    All photos by Hamde Abu Rahmah: � � � �

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Honouring UK science
    What a year it's been for Adrian Smith: the current director-general for knowledge and innovation at the UK's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has just been knighted. Earlier this year it looked like Smith might be about to experience at first hand the government's new plans for enc ...
  • US administration explains why polar bears are 'th ...
    The administration of President George W. Bush was correct in 2008 to label the polar bear as ‘threatened’, but not ‘endangered’, under the US Endangered Species Act (ESA) – and it should stay that way, said the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) yesterday. The FWS was responding in a lawsuit ch ...
  • Should we proscribe placebo prescribing?
    It sounds more like a question for philosophy than for medicine: if you know a placebo is a placebo, is it still a placebo? Definitions of placebo often involve it being a ‘sham’ or a ‘dummy’ treatment. But a Boston-based team has been trying to see if they can elicit a placebo effect when their ...
  • Senate ratifies nuclear arms deal
    The US Senate has ratified the New START treaty, a nuclear arms agreement between Russia and the US that has been a key foreign policy objective for US President Barack Obama. The decision paves the way for a new round of bilateral nuclear inspections, which ended in 2009 when the 1991 START I tr ...
  • Wales to lose nearly half its universities
    The number of universities in Wales must be cut from 11 to at least 6 by 2013, the body that funds higher education in the principality said yesterday. Since 2002 the Welsh government has encouraged universities to voluntarily collaborate and merge and has provided funding for them to do so. But ...

new geography

  • The NFL: Running the Numbers in the Football Bus ...
    Why does America — and I include myself — invest so much psychic energy, not to mention hard dollars, in professional football, a sport that on many levels combines the worst aspects of roller derby and professional wrestling? Sometimes when I am watching Dan, Boomer, Phil, Chris, Rod, Coach Cowh ...
  • The Poverty Of Ambition: Why The West Is Losing To ...
    The last 10 years have been the worst for Western civilization since the 1930s. At the onset of the new millennium North America, Europe and Oceania stood at the cutting edge of the future, with new technologies and a lion�s share of the world�s GDP. �At its end, most of these economies limped, whil ...
  • Toronto: Three Cities in More than One Way
    The issue of income disparity in Toronto has once again been brought into the public eye by a December 15th report by University of Toronto Professor David Hulchanski. The report, �The Three Cities Within Toronto,� points to a growing disparity in incomes between Downtown Toronto, the inner suburbs ...
  • 2011: Jobs Vs The Deficit
    The roadmaps showing the way out of our 1.4 trillion dollar federal deficit almost always begin at the same starting points. During 2010, it became taken-for-granted that today's record-setting red ink is a result of unrestrained government spending — especially stimulus spending. And the idea tha ...
  • Washington Opens The Virtual Office Door
    On December 9, President Obama signed into law the Telework Enhancement Act, a bill designed to increase telework among federal employees. Sponsored by Representatives John Sarbanes (D-MD), Frank Wolf (R-VA) and Gerry Connolly (D-VA), the legislation gives federal agencies six months to establish a ...

GM Watch

spiked

Cryptogon

  • Sacramento Girl Needed Amputations After 5-Hour Wa ...
    Via: Sacramento Bee: As his tiny daughter’s skin turned blotchy and her body went limp during a lengthy wait at Methodist Hospital’s emergency room, Ryan Jeffers panicked. “This wasn’t a simple flu,” he said. “My daughter needed help.” Little did he know that the girl was near death from a common in ...
  • Spain and Italy Have to Refinance Over $530 billio ...
    Via: Reuters: The euro currency area has only a one-in-five chance of surviving in its current form over the next 10 years because of competitive imbalances between its members, a leading British think tank said on Friday. The Center for Economics and Business Research said Spain and Italy would hav ...
  • ‘Crash Taxes’ Are Growing in Popularit ...
    Let me understand this: There’s no discount on all the other taxes people pay to the state, and then they get charged by the state when there’s an emergency? Maniac fascists have no concept of enough. There’s one voice of sanity in this article: “To me, it’s an outrage. We’re already paying these pe ...
  • Ivory Coast on the ‘Brink of Genocide’
    A few terms that don’t appear in the story below: Oil, diamonds, cobalt, gold, iron, manganese and nickel. Cocoa, however, is mentioned. Via: Guardian: Ivory Coast is on the “brink of genocide” and the world must take urgent action, the country’s new ambassador to the UN has warned. Youssoufou Bamba ...
  • 200,000 Australians Affected by Floods Covering La ...
    Via: Telegraph: Some 200,000 Australians have been affected by flood waters covering an area larger than France and Germany combined. Military aircraft dropped supplies to towns cut off by floods as rising rivers inundated or isolated 22 towns in the state of Queensland. … Officials say half of Quee ...

The Economic Collapse

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

Desertification

  • To send water to the ocean and bring it back (Robi ...
    Dr. Van Cotthem, I want to thank you for your website. I live in the City of Los Angeles, Southern California, USA and I have become increasingly concerned about the contradiction within the services provided by cities and our state: … Continue reading →
  • New shading technology to improve greenhouse and p ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101228180902.htm New Technology Improves Greenhouse, Plant Microclimates ScienceDaily (Dec. 29, 2010) â A study in HortTechnology featured a new technology that improved greenhouse climates by reducing solar heat radiation and temperatures durin ...
  • NUE: Improving Nitrogen Use Efficiency, a potentia ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101230100056.htm Crops: Improving Nitrogen Use Efficiency Lessens Environmental Impact ScienceDaily (Dec. 29, 2010) â Most agricultural crops require large quantities of nitrate-rich fertilizer to realize optimal yields. The dilemma for growers ...
  • Dry area family gardening in Mexico (Fabio RUIZ / ...
    Sincere thanks to Fabio RUIZ for authorizing me to use some photos of a family garden in Colotlan, located in the northern extremity of the Mexican state of Jalisco. On Fabioâs blog : http://colotlan.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/otros-cultivos-en-el-huerto-familiar/ you will find these photos of … Conti ...
  • Turkey’s support to develop, implement and m ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.todayszaman.com/news-231079-turkey-develops-irrigation-and-well-projects-for-africa.html Turkey develops irrigation and well projects for Africa Turkey continues to win the hearts of people in African countries who are struggling with hunger and wa ...

The Paper Trail

  • The Center’s Impact in 2010
    The true value of an investigative story is not measured in Web hits, media partners or awards – it’s whether our reports help improve the world. By that yardstick, the Center for Public Integrity’s work showed clear impact in 2010:
  • Health Care Fraud Cases Drop Despite Bigger Budget
    The official line at the Department of Justice is that investigators are battling Medicare and Medicaid fraud like never before. But the most recent data on the agency’s activities show that its efforts and ballooning budget have actually produced fewer results.
  • Public Insight Network Offers New Opportunities fo ...
    In early November, the Center for Public Integrity launched our partnership with American Public Media's Public Insight Network or PIN — a group of over 90,000 people (and counting) that have signed up to be "citizen sources" to help journalists all around the country.
  • DuPont Penalized For Hiding Chemical Health Risks ...
    When the Environmental Protection Agency settled on Dec. 6 a major enforcement action against DuPont Co., for failing to report possible health risks involving its chemicals, it wasn’t the first time. In 2005, the company also resolved EPA assertions that it hid the dangers of a toxic chemical, agre ...
  • EPA Reminds Republicans Cap-and-Trade Used to be G ...
    The Obama administration is turning the tables on Republican foes of climate regulation, demonstrating not only that cap-and-trade works — it significantly reduced acid rain — but that the program was started by one of their own, George H. W. Bush.

backofthebook.ca

  • Justin Bieber does his bit for the Canadian econom ...
    By Frank Moher My New Year's resolution for 2011 is to like Justin Bieber. I'm quite serious. My first reaction to the news that The Bieber caused a near-riot when he appeared at a Kitchener, Ont. mall on Boxing Day, there to buy some shades (because, after all, his future really is so ...
  • Battle of the Bigots
    A white supremacist group called The Council of Conservative Citizens is outraged that Marvel has cast Idris Elba as Heimdall in Thor, because he is foxy.  I mean, black.  They probably don’t appreciate that foxy black men exist in the world, but it is definitely the blackness that they are ...
  • WikiLeaks’ Canadian secrets not all that sec ...
    By Frank Moher I can tell from our logs that a lot of people are still looking to find out what Wikileaks' purloined cables have revealed about Canada, but the answer remains: Not a whole lot. Little enough, in fact, that it's possible to run the Canadian content all in one ...
  • Hang the holidays
    By Bev Schellenberg What has happened to our celebratory schedule? It seems it was only a few weeks ago I bought a witch hat and cape for my daughter, a baron costume for my son, and carved a pumpkin. In fact, it was only a few weeks ago. Now here I ...
  • The security perimeter: It’s Aliiiiiive!
    By Alison@Creekside Well, it's back. The "one security perimeter" deep integration SPP/FTAA zombie, now with new and improved emphasis on security. You're shocked, I'm sure. Like it ever really died. The re-animators just learned not to dig it up and parade it around in parliament too often ...

Worldnews

  • Twilight hunk Kellan Lutz resolves to eat hea ...
    Twilight hunk Kellan Lutz has revealed his New Year’s resolution is to eat less sweets and junk food. PETAs 30th Anniversary Gala held at the Hollywood...
  • Wigan 0 Newcastle 1: Shola Ameobi strikes to ...
    Shola Ameobi fired Newcastle to victory to move them away from the relegation zone - and plunge Wigan deeper into trouble. The Toon striker pounced on shocking defending in the first-half to poke home what turned out to be the winner. More to follow... Give us an arm up: Shola Ameobi celebrates ...
  • `Fockers' finishes first with $26.3M weekend; ...
    LOS ANGELES - Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller's "Little Fockers" remains the top draw at the weekend box office with $26.3 million. It was closely followed by Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon's Western "True Grit," which was No. 2 for the second-straight weekend with $24.5 million. With no new wide r ...
  • Agnivesh to move court against scams in UPA G ...
    Kolkata, January 02: Social activist Swami Agnivesh, as part of a citizen's forum, is planning to move court in public interest against alleged corruption in the UPA...
  • Chelsea are still in the title race insists C ...
    Carlo Ancelotti insisted Chelsea are not out of the Premier League title race despite watching them throw away two points in today's breathless 3-3 draw against Aston Villa. But the Chelsea manager admitted this afternoon's result, which left his side outside the top four, meant they must beat ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Suicide by Pesticide: India's Hidden Climate Chang ...
    by Alex RentonNaryamaswamy Naik went to the cupboard and took out a tin of pesticide. Then he stood before his wife and children and drank it. "I don't know how much he had borrowed. I asked him, but he wouldn't say," Sugali Nagamma said, her tiny grandson playing at her feet. "I'd tell him: don ...
  • Gazan Youth Issue Manifesto to Vent Their Anger wi ...
    by Ana CarbajosaThe meeting takes place in a bare room in a block of flats in the centre of Gaza City. No photographs, no real names - those are the conditions.read more
  • Dilma Roussef, Brazil's First Female President, Vo ...
    by Diana ReneeBRASILIA, Brazil - Left-wing economist Dilma Rousseff, 63, was inaugurated Saturday as the first female president of Brazil, succeeding her popular mentor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. In her inaugural address in the building that houses the lowe ...
  • Iran Shoots Down Two 'Western Spy' Drones
    TEHRAN  - Iran's Revolutionary Guards have shot down two "Western spy" drones in the Gulf, the Fars news agency quoted a top commander of the elite military force as saying on Sunday. "Westerners have a series of capabilities which cannot be ignored, especially satellites, or for example they ha ...
  • Activists Clash with Japan Whalers in Southern Oce ...
    SYDNEY, Australia - Anti-whalers Saturday said they had clashed with Japanese harpoonists in the Southern Ocean, chasing them through ice packs, throwing stink bombs at them and being hit with water cannon.The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's vessels have been seeking to disrupt the Japanese whal ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Finding journalistic excellence in the nuclear ind ...
    There is no shortage of coverage. The question is how good is it?
  • Why Cancun Trumped Copenhagen in 2010, Looking Tow ...
    As we begin the year 2011, a look back at 2010 confirms that the greatest environmental achievement of the past year was the success that was achieved at the Sixteenth Conference of the Parties (COP-16) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Cancun, Mexico, in early ...
  • E85 Stations Continue To Increase, Reaching 2,354
    The number of E85 pumps across the country finished out 2010 on a strong note, with 25 new locations added in December, bringing the total to 2,354. I didn't keep track of the monthly totals at the beginning of the year because the numbers had somewhat stagnated and to be honest it was kind of depr ...
  • Happy Birthday to the Clean Air Act -- 40 Years Yo ...
    We've been celebrating the Clean Air Act's 40th anniversary�a lot this year, but today is the old girl's actual birthday.�President Richard M. Nixon signed the 1970 Clean Air Act into law on the last day of that year.� In his remarks, he saluted the new law as the achievement of leaders of both part ...
  • Carnival Issue: Biggest Nuclear Stores in 2010
    Retrospectives and Prospects for the Future

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

  • Haiti's Elections: Illegitimately Recounting Fraud
    by Stephen Lendman Haiti's November 28 elections were irremediably fraudulent, farcical and outrageous. The entire process was rigged. New elections, including all excluded parties, are essential, but not planned. Instead, so-called independent OAS experts began recounting verification to legitimiz ...
  • Networks of Empire and Realignments of World Power
    James Petras Imperial states build networks which link economic, military and political activities into a coherent mutually reinforcing system. This task is largely performed by the various institutions of the imperial state. Thus imperial action is not always directly economic, as military actio ...
  • Decline and Fall (Maybe) January 1, 2011
    The Happy New Year Edition (with some good news about 2011) Michael Collins
  • President Obama and the US Generals in Search of N ...
    By Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D H.G. Wells (Outline of History), once noted on the fall and decline of the Roman Empire: “so began the first of the most wasteful and disastrous series of wars that has ever darkened the history of mankind.” The 21st century US-British leaders share the same verdict of ...
  • Any respect for International law left in the US C ...
    By Franklin Lamb This week marks the second anniversary of among the most savage criminal slaughters of human life in long memory. The 522 hour indiscriminate carnage, “Cast Lead” that killed 1,417 Palestinians, mostly civilians, 352 of them children, injuring for life more than 5,300 , indicts I ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • A good start for the new year for California. Mari ...
    Marijuana Decriminalized in California | PR Cannazine The Legalize marijuana push may have fallen at the last in November 2010, but that doesn’t mean the laws regarding recreational cannabis in California are not going through wholesale changes. For instance 2011 see’s a change in the legal status o ...
  • Thanks, President Obama! Starting today, insurance ...
    Major Health Care Reforms Take Effect January 1 | TPM Starting Saturday, two of the new health care law’s most significant reforms take effect — or at least begin to take effect. The first will dramatically clamp down on insurance industry waste, abuse, and excesses. Starting on New Year’s Day, insu ...
  • Pentagon Censorship Of Book On Afghanistan War
    “But Montag,it’s for the good of the people. Book are Bad.” SPRINGFIELD, Va. (WUSA) — Anthony Shaffer thinks the war in Afghanistan went off track in 2003 and wrote about it in his book Operation Dark Heart. Shaffer was a senior operations officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency when he served i ...
  • Hippie.TV
  • 16 Airports Have Dumped TSA
    As frustration grows, airports consider ditching TSA | The Washington Post Some of the nation’s biggest airports are responding to recent public outrage over security screening by weighing whether they should hire private firms such as Covenant to replace the Transportation Security Administration. ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Higher Taxes on Top 1% Equals Higher Productivity
  • Why EL PAÍS chose to publish the leaks
    1. The leak and its consequences. When WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called my cellphone on a Friday afternoon in November, I could barely hear him. The conversation, held amid the usual tumult of Rome's airport on a weekend, was strangely short. Assange talked slowly, making sure to pronounce ea ...
  • The Game-Changer List
    The Associated Press, as usual, released last week its editors’ poll of the 10 top stories of the year. No. 1, with 54 first-place votes, was the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The congressional passage of health care reform was second with 30 votes. The list by the men and women who actually e ...
  • WikiLeaks may spawn new sedition act
    The infamous Sedition Act, which criminalized speech critical of the federal government and which was passed by the Federalists during another of America’s undeclared wars (that time, against France), lasted only three years, from 1798 to 1801. However, if the congressional critics of WikiLeaks fou ...
  • “Dear Afghanistan:” A New Year’s Call for Peace
    While the US may be the world’s single super power in military terms, it faces another super power: the voices of war-weary millions who detest violence and killing. In Afghanistan, in the United States, and among the populations of countries whose governments have joined the NATO coalition, million ...

Salon

  • Pope defends Middle East Christians
    Pope Benedict XVI urged Christians to remain strong in the face of intolerance and violence in a New Year's appeal Saturday that came hours after a bomb blast outside an Egyptian church killed 21 people as worshippers left Mass.
  • Obama wants bipartisan new year
    President Barack Obama says Democrats and Republicans must work together in the new year and share responsibility for moving the country forward.
  • Inmates riot at low-security prison in England
    Rioting inmates caused heavy damage to a low-security prison Saturday, smashing windows and setting fires that engulfed buildings and spewed clouds of black smoke.
  • The most memorable images of 2010
    To say 2010 was an eventful year would be quite the understatement. It was an election year, of course. Also a year of plane crashes, landmark legislation, meat dresses, flash mobs, Tea Party protests, faux scandals, Wikileaks and more devastating floods, earthquakes, landslides, volcano eruption ...
  • Steve Kornacki on "Hardball"
    Salon's Steve Kornacki and fellow guests Joanthan Alter, Michelle Bernard, and Richard Wolffe joined Chris Matthews on Thursday for an hour-long panel discussion about the year ahead in politics.

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Finding journalistic excellence in the nuclear ind ...
    There is no shortage of coverage. The question is how good is it?
  • Why Cancun Trumped Copenhagen in 2010, Looking Tow ...
    As we begin the year 2011, a look back at 2010 confirms that the greatest environmental achievement of the past year was the success that was achieved at the Sixteenth Conference of the Parties (COP-16) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Cancun, Mexico, in early ...
  • E85 Stations Continue To Increase, Reaching 2,354
    The number of E85 pumps across the country finished out 2010 on a strong note, with 25 new locations added in December, bringing the total to 2,354. I didn't keep track of the monthly totals at the beginning of the year because the numbers had somewhat stagnated and to be honest it was kind of depr ...
  • Happy Birthday to the Clean Air Act -- 40 Years Yo ...
    We've been celebrating the Clean Air Act's 40th anniversary�a lot this year, but today is the old girl's actual birthday.�President Richard M. Nixon signed the 1970 Clean Air Act into law on the last day of that year.� In his remarks, he saluted the new law as the achievement of leaders of both part ...
  • Carnival Issue: Biggest Nuclear Stores in 2010
    Retrospectives and Prospects for the Future

EU Times

  • Nigerian capital hit by bombs on New Years Eve
    More vicious terrorist attacks while the world leftist press stays silent. The escalation of Muslim attacks on Christians Christmas week and New Years continues unabated, unchallenged, unanswered. God forgive us. Officials in Nigeria say a bomb has exploded at a popular market inside an army barrack ...
  • Assange warns if Imprisoned or Killed, he will Out ...
    Middle Eastern leaders who’ve become friendly with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) could face severe retribution from their local populations if WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is killed or jailed for a lengthy amount of time. That’s because, in a recent interview with Arabic news network ...
  • Universal phone charger just months away as mobile ...
    The days of frantically searching for the correct mobile phone charger are finally set to end with the release of a universal charger compatible with almost all new handsets. The European Commission this week released technical specifications for a standard charger that have been approved by the wor ...
  • Car bomb at Egyptian church kills 21 as worshipper ...
    A car bombing outside a church killed 21 people in Egypt’s northern city of Alexandria as worshippers gathered to mark the New Year. The Interior Ministry said 24 people were also wounded in the bombing, which prompted hundreds of Christians to take to the streets in protest. Some Christians and Mus ...
  • The EU’s False Impression of Lukashenko
    Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko left little doubt about who was in control of his country following last week’s elections. The European Union had hoped for more democracy. But it would appear that many in Belarus are happy with the status quo. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was one of th ...

Stonecipher News

  • Special Education High School Transition Services
    From my Factoidz page: 1414(d) and in Findings about “effective transition services to promote successful post-Students typically start transition services at the age 14 if educational services are still required as determined by the school district and the IEP team. However, Washington State’s Offi ...
  • Don't Quit Your Day Job
    This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Ashworth College. All opinions are 100% mine. With approximately 4,000,000 students today, more than 20 percent of all students enrolled in higher education are taking at least one course online. Self paced online courses all ...
  • Breast Cancer Gene May Raise Men’s Risk, Too
    Source: HealthDay News: "A faulty gene that greatly increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer also boosts a man’s risk for the disease, a new study finds. While most people think of breast cancer as a woman’s illness, in rare cases men can develop breast tumors as well. The new study found that me ...
  • Diabetics Urged to Confer With Their Doctor About ...
    According to Amanda Gardner HealthDay Reporter, "THURSDAY, July 15 (HealthDay News) -- One day after a U.S. advisory panel recommended that the controversial diabetes drug Avandia stay on the market -- albeit with added restrictions -- several medical organizations are urging patients not to change ...
  • Top Five Cleaning Mistakes
    This is a short video about the common mistakes when cleaning. You may still be sleeping with bugs after cleaning.

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Great. Hillary Clinton has “friendly chat” with Hu ...
    The Brazilians love their Marxist leaders. From Lula to the new President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff they are about as far left as you can get outside of Hugo Chavez. Of course Chavez is probably a role model for a lot of Brazilians, much like he is for far left kook Americans. So while Hugo Chavez a ...
  • India Gets Tougher on Iran
    Last November, India’s senior foreign policy officials made their unhappiness known over Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s remarks about Kashmir being a ‘besieged’ region of the world. They not only called in the Iranian ambassador to express their displeasure, but for the first time carefully ...
  • Birmingham 0-3 Arsenal: I cannot praise Sagna enou ...
    This is not a proper match report — I am still in Sweden for another two days and things will get back to normal for the Manchester City game on Wednesday — but a quick look at the things that stood out to me in our comfortable win over Birmingham. Firstly, the squad rotation. Arsene Wenger made ei ...
  • Official: US, NATO Now in Control of Narcotic Trad ...
    TEHRAN: A senior Iranian judiciary official blasted the West’s performance in fighting drugs in Afghanistan, and stressed that the western states, particularly the US, are now in control of the drug trade in the war-torn country
  • 2011 Smartphone Predictions : Apple, Nokia, Samsun ...
    2010 had been a big year for smartphones. Last June, Apple released a totally redesigned iPhone and Nokia launched Nokia N8, a Symbian^3 phone that features the most powerful camera ever put on a smartphone. Samsung, on the other hand, had an Android best-seller in Samsung Galaxy S

Groklaw

  • 2010's Top Five Linux and Open-Source Stories
    Sure, unlike me, you're probably not reading this on a Linux desktop-Mint 10 for those who care about such things-but do you use Google, Facebook or Twitter? If so, you're using Linux. That Android phone in your pocket? Linux. DVRs, network attached storage (NAS), trade stocks? Linux, Linux, Linux. ...
  • Mostly obvious predictions for open source in 2011 ...
    Will there be more lawsuits around the use of open source in smartphones? Yes, and from the same and usual suspects. - Bob Sutor
  • .NET and Windows Presentation Foundation Abandoned ...
    icrosoft MVP Miguel de Icaza is still managing Microsoft projects at AttachMSFT/Novell, notably Mono and Moonlight (which empowers the dying Silverlight). What is the point of it? This only spreads Microsoft's APIs, which are of course encumbered by patents. De Icaza would like us to believe that th ...
  • Android tablet GPL compliance
    The Android operating system is built on top of the Linux kernel and a small number of other GPL components. The GPL requires that vendors either provide the source code to the GPL components with the device, or alternatively to provide a written offer to provide the source code upon request. Many v ...
  • Answering the Question: How Stupid is the USPTO -- ...
    Apple has been named in a new lawsuit that accuses several companies of violating a patent that covers the idea of double clicking a user interface element and then interacting with a new user interface element caused by the double clicking. Apple's iPad and iPhone are named in the suit as offending ...

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

Politics in the Zeros

  • Human rights as a pretext for imperialism
    Want to depose the government of a poor country with resources? Want to bash Muslims? Want to build support for American military interventions around the world? Want to undermine governments that are raising their people up from poverty because they don’t conform to the tastes of upper west side in ...
  • Floating wind turbines
    “There is enough energy in high altitude winds to power civilization 100 times over; and sooner or later, we’re going to learn to tap into the power of winds and use it to run civilization.” The Magenn MARS 100 KW floating wind turbine is about to ship. The tether is also the transmission conduit an ...
  • Feed lots as nutrient sources for biofuel algae
    [Confined Animal Feeding Operations] offer a rich source of nutrients that can be used as a feedstock to grow algae. Most operations located in the northern climates are equipped with anaerobic digesters that use microbes to break down the organic forms of nitrogen and phosphorous into inorganic for ...
  • Brazil first female president, former Marxist, was ...
    Dilma Rousseff has become Brazil’s first female president. In the 60′s, she was a Marxist guerilla who was captured and “barbarically tortured” for two years. She made a point of including her eleven female cell mates as part of the inauguration.
  • Damn You Auto Correct
    Sue found Damn You Auto Correct last night and was giggling so much she woke me up. It’s probably best to not view this site in public else people think you’re a lunatic, sort of like reading Dave Barry books in public.

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • M. Paraipan: Another informative Hamas-leader inte ...
    Following up on the interview she conducted with Hamas Secretary-General Khaled Meshaal in Damascus in early November, Romanian researcher Manuela Paraipan conducted another one in Beirut recently with Hamas's representative in Lebanon, Osama Hamdan. Her institution in Bucharest, MEPEI, has publishe ...
  • Israel's 'New' peace wave protests IOF violence in ...
    Israel's peace and justice movement has been reborn. Ten years after the body blow that (current War Minister) Ehud Barak delivered to it when he said the Palestinians had "turned down a generous offer" (which wasn't generous at all), and that there was "no-one to talk to" among the Palestinians, a ...
  • Jawaher Abu Rahmeh dies from tear-gas inhalation
    I am sorry to report that 36-year-old Bil'in resident Jawaher Abu Rahmeh died last night from the after-effects of the poison gas the IOF uses against the nonviolent demonstrations that the village's residents have been organizing against the Apartheid Wall every Friday for more than five years. Mo ...
  • Bil'in woman badly injured by tear-gas
    This, from the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee: Jawaher Abu Rahmah, 36, was evacuated to the Ramallah hospital after inhaling massive amounts of tear-gas towards protesters in Bil'in earlier today. She is currently in critical condition and is not responding to treatment. Another protester ...
  • Remembering slavery in Virginia
    Our country here is coming up to the 150th anniversary of the act of secession by southern states that launched the extremely bloody civil war of 1861-65. I am very interested in the civil war, for a number of reasons. For American Quakers and members of the other U.S. peace churches, the civil war ...

First Truths

  • Bribery, Thy Name Is Government
    For the Center for a Stateless Society I criticized governments for their amenability to bribes even while they prosecute the same.
  • To Fight Terror, Fight the State
    The U.S. terror state, the mechanism through which the state-corporate power elite butchers thousands of innocents under the auspices of spreading freedom, is no more morally legitimate than than those who strap bombs to their bodies or use IEDs against buses. My latest commentary attacks the ultima ...
  • Speed Bumps on the Information Superhighway
    For the Center for a Stateless Society, I raise objections to IP law and praise networks of free individuals within the context of Facebook.
  • Corporate Welfare Disguised As "Free Trade"
    Beware of "free trade agreements," statist pacts that fix the rules for Big Business and cheat consumers. My commentary here.
  • QE2: The Fed's Latest Scam
    Like the Bailouts, the new quantitative easement plan that will see the Federal Reserve�buy $600 billion in Treasury bonds is a gift to the big banks at our expense. My commentary is here.

Media Co-Op

  • Vancouver New Year's Noise Agitates Guards and Cop ...
    Anti-Prison Rally One Day After Three Prisoners Escape p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } On New Year's Eve 2010, protesters brought the noise—along with a banner and fireworks—to a local prison as an act of solidarity with prisoners and against pr ...
  • Media Co-op Investor: December #2
    We Dig Deep on First Quantum and Manulife Financial Welcome to Media Co-op Investor! The Media Co-op Investor Series aims to help the general public understand the stock market, how it works and the major companies which benefit from it. Every ...
  • Toronto Rally Demands Freedom and Status for Danie ...
    High School student facing January 1st deportation to homophobic violence in Mexico Over 100 people rallied in downtown Toronto on new year's eve this morning to demand freedom and status for Parkdale Collegiate high school student Daniel Garc ...
  • The Trial of Land Defender, John Graham
    Graham maintains his innocence despite a guilty verdict. He now faces life in prison. On December 10 a South Dakota jury found John Graham guilty of felony murder in the death of American Indian Movement (AIM) member Anna Mae Aquash. John Gra ...
  • Professor David Schindler on the Pollution of the ...
    Take5 - CIUT 89.5fm - University of Toronto Community Radio There’s no longer any doubt the tar sands are adding toxic compounds to the Athabasca River says Dr. David Schindler, a biologist at the University of Alberta. Listen here: http://sou ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Myth destroying chart
    David Seaton's News LinksNo comment. DS
  • Ending the First Decade of the 21rst Century
    David Seaton's News LinksSometimes after writing a long, rather ponderous piece like my last one, I like to follow it with a shorter and lighter version of more or less the same thing. This is some sort of a parallel text that grows out of its predecessor. We are at the end of the first decade of ...
  • New Year's 2011... singing in Grover Norquist's ba ...
    Singing in the bathtub Happy once again Watching all my troubles Go swinging down the drain Singing through the soap suds Life is full of hope You can sing with feeling While feeling for the soap. "Singing in the Bathtub" David Seaton's News Links It's New Year's; this is when we are supposed to lo ...
  • North Korea or Murdoch: the art is knowing how to ...
    Korean strongman, Kim Jong-il and his son and successor, Kim Jong-un David Seaton's News LinksThere is a lot of speculation, and practically no hard intelligence, as to why North Korea is behaving so strangely of late. Sinking a South Korean ship and killing 45 sailors, showing off their advanced at ...
  • Homage to Ireland in Her Hour of Need
    Now that they've gone stone broke and are dirt poor again. Lets send the Irish a big hug and kiss for all the fun they've always provided. Just as a token, this trailer from my favorite Irish theme film, (apologies to John Ford and "The Quiet Man")... Alan Parker's, "The Commitments". You think th ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

  • EWG Applauds Obama Administration Plan to Address ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982 Washington, D.C. — Just two days after the release of Environmental Working Group's (EWG) analysis of chromium-6 (hexavalent chromium) contamination in the drinking water of 31 U.S. cities, the... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • Milestone Measure to Advance Food Safety Passes Co ...
    Contact: Contact EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982 Washington, D.C. – The nation’s food safety system is responsible for 3,000 deaths each year, and 48 million illnesses annually , according to newly released data from the federal Centers... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • EWG Tests Show Notorious Carcinogen is Widespread ...
    Contact: Home Full Report Executive Summary Study Findings Industry Tactics Government Failings Progress in California Study Methodology ... [[ This is a content summar ...
  • EWG response to EPA’s review of chromium-6 health ...
    December 15th, 2010 Read our Press Release Download PDF. November 23, 2010 Office of Environmental Information (OEI) Docket Mail Code: 2822T U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW. Washington, DC 20460 Re:... [[ This is a content summa ...
  • Lawmakers, Researchers, Doctors Reject Schwarzeneg ...
    Contact: Renee Sharp, (510) 444-0973 x302 or renee@ewg.org Read our letter to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Oakland, Calif. – Lawmakers, public health advocates, scientists, public utility managers and medical doctors are demanding that... [[ This is a content summary only. ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • 10 Best Health Articles of 2010
    Today, on the first day of 2011, all of us at Mercola.com wish you a Healthy, Happy New Year. 2010 was a year full of surprises and drama. I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have gotten involved in all these health related causes and successfully helped steer public consciousnes ...
  • The Witch-Hunt that's Taking it To One of America' ...
    Domino's Pizza's domestic sales were falling last year. Then an organization called Dairy Management offered to help. They developed pizzas for Domino's that contained 40 percent more cheese, and then devised and paid for a $12-million marketing campaign. But Dairy Management is not a private busin ...
  • Beauty Sleep -- Truth or Fantasy?
    Many people assume that "beauty sleep" is a myth used to convince children to go to sleep. But a new study suggests there may be something to it. The study looked at the effect that sleep deprivation has on the way other people perceive your attractiveness.� Study participants were asked to sit fo ...
  • RePURRters: The Movie
    Ever wonder what your cat does when you’re not around? Find out by watching the first movie filmed entirely by cats!
  • Memory Foggy? 5 Signs It's Not Serious
    It's natural to feel nervous when you forget something, knowing that Alzheimer's disease now affects 5.3 million Americans.� But a memory slip doesn't always mean the worst. According to KPHO, the following five situations point toward normal, age-related memory loss. Lapses Don't Interfere ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

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

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

  • animal farms get bigger & bigger
    from allgov: The last two decades witnessed the continued disappearance of small- and medium-sized farms, thanks to the ever-expanding presence of corporate-owned “factory” farms, according to Food and Water Watch. In a new report, the agricultural watchdog organization found the number of dairy ...
  • 12/31 binge & purge: prices, crisis & new year pre ...
    global food prices in 2011 face perilous rise* inflation may become a bigger worry in 2011 for food companies* food stamps to be spread out in 2011: michigan to change its food stamp distribution policy in 2011* food safety news naughty list 2010* with food safety bill, US govt will spend n ...
  • 11/11 binge & purge: spam the torpedos!
    33 sick in multistate outbreak of e. coli associated with cheese* wv dept of ag gets grant to study e. coli in beef* salmonella in france: 500 sick from beef patties* carnival splendor passenger describes 2hr foodlines, other problems aboard disabled ship* food wrappers leach harmful che ...
  • chemicals in fast food wrappers end up in human bl ...
    from allgov: As if the food in fast food wasn’t questionable enough from a health standpoint, it turns out the wrappers used for hamburgers, chicken sandwiches, microwave popcorn, etc. contain chemicals that are leaching into the human body. Researchers at the University of Toronto found that f ...
  • city of houston shuts down two radioactive water w ...
    from khou: A radioactive water well that is controlled by the City of Houston, and that serves residents of Jersey Village, is no longer being used, according to the communications director for Houston Mayor Annise Parker. On Monday, a KHOU-TV investigation revealed Jersey Village water well #3 was ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

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

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Sunday Paper Review: 2nd January 2011
    New Year, new rant... I don't know if you're like me, but I'm seriously beginning to suffer from cabin fever. If this Christmas and New Year epic where all human life drags on in an endless state of near-suspension for a month goes on for much longer, where people who you know who actually *d ...
  • Internet censorship: Some tosser of a minister thi ...
    WARNING: This post contains some more adult language than is the norm. Here we go then... the political elites are making their first moves to censor the internet. What they need is some tosser in a Government job to propose that they're only doing it to protect the kids from online porn. Can ...
  • (Soon to be) Poor Estonia!
    For some bizarre reason best known to their own politicians, Estonia today joined the eurozone - becoming the seventeenth 'country' to do so. The Daily Express describes the move by noting: "ESTONIA joined the troubled eurozone today – in a move that was compared to boarding the Titanic after it ...
  • I know you don't think I'm going to give $2.3trill ...
    So, a little rewind. Let us go back to one day before the world went mad - one day before we all got sidetracked into watching the movie version of real life. Yes, it was September 10th 2001. In the US, Donald Rumsfeld stood up in public and announced that some of the US taxpayer's money wa ...
  • Unhappy New Year!
    Try to have a happy new year everyone... but every indicator I've just seen on my daily internet scoot around suggests it will be far from happy for most of us. The most common prediction that I've seen seems to be summed up most by a Kaiser Chiefs song.... So, here's to 2011... and Muse: I ...

Facing South

  • Eight homeless youth die in New Orleans fire -- wh ...
    By Bill Quigley Eight young people, who the Fire Department said were "trying to stay warm," perished in a raging fire early Tuesday morning in New Orleans. The young people were squatting in an abandoned wood framed tin walled warehouse in a Ninth Ward neighborhood bordering a large train yard. Th ...
  • YOU are the answer
    Let's play a little Facing South Jeopardy. Here's the answer: YOU. Now -- can you guess the question? If you said, "How is Facing South going to reach its holiday fundraising goal for the Institute Investigative Fund?" then ding! We have a winner! Actually, we already have lots of winners: Si ...
  • New Orleans gets table scrap in GO Zone lending fe ...
    By Ariella Cohen, The Lens As Louisiana wraps its Gulf Opportunity Zone lending program, only 3 percent of the $7.8 billion went to projects in New Orleans, a review of state records show. Though the program was intended to generate recovery and jobs in the areas most affected by ...
  • Top Facing South stories of 2010: Part 1
    Thank you, dear readers, for another great year at Facing South! Due to your loyal readership and support (there's still time to chip in for our holiday fundraiser!), 2010 was a big success here at your favorite experiment in Southern-fried, non-profit, independent journalism. Here's what I'm mos ...
  • How does the biggest prison strike in American his ...
    By Mark Anthony Neal, TheLoop21.com In September of 1971, more than a thousand prisoners at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, NY revolted in what eventually became one of the most famous prison standoffs in American history. Before the insurrection was bloodily quelled on orders of then N ...

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • You are Invited to the Wedding of Stupidity and Va ...
    By Les Visible I’ve got a new litmus test. You may remember that I authored the original litmus test of measuring a person’s integrity, truthfulness and honor against what they have to say about 9/11. It seems like a lot of people who managed some kind of a ‘false positive’ with that one are now [.. ...
  • On New Year’s Eve, 2010
    By Les Visible Well, here I sit at the closing of the year. The past is behind me and the future is ahead and neither of them exists in real time, because there is only the present. One could say that the past put us where we are and that what we are likely to [...]
  • 9/11 TRUTH: Kevin Ryan Exposes Access for Demoliti ...
  • Myths and Facts: Study Verifies That There Is No V ...
    A remarkable study published in the Cochrane Library found no evidence of benefit for influenza vaccinations and also noted that the vast majority of trials were inadequate. The authors stated that the only ones showing benefit were industry-funded. They also pointed out that the industry-funded stu ...
  • Steroid use among police officers a widespread pro ...
    By Jonathan Benson Professional athletes are not the only prominent members of society with major drug problems. According to a recent report by AOL News, as many as 25 percent or more of police officers are regularly take steroid drugs, which has led to a rise in the number of assaults and other ca ...

Veterans Today

  • ‘Bobby Thompson’s’ Brazen Fraud, ...
    Shocker. We have a culture where we get the heads of real veterans’ groups acting in opposition to veterans. All you have to do is yell: ‘God,’ wave a flag, make some GOP contributions, trash gays or some other minority and you’ll have plenty of friends in D.C. … “Bobby Thompson,” who created his f ...
  • China’s J-20 Stealth Fighter In Taxi Tests
    Looks like some of the folks funding the Bush-Cheney debt are bulking up some more. China’s first known stealth aircraft just emerged from a secret development program and was undergoing high-speed taxi tests [in mid-December] at Chengdu Aircraft Design Institute’s airfield. Said to be designated J- ...
  • Sal Giunta: War Hero’s Tour; A Humble Soldie ...
    CHICAGO â It was years in the making, so Staff Sgt. Sal Giunta had time to talk with his wife about the “what if” question. He’d been recommended for the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military decoration. If chosen, his name would be in headlines. His face in the spotlight. He’d be a celebrit ...
  • Israeli War Crimes: From the USS Liberty to the Hu ...
    - This is dedicated to the brave Turkish and American martyrs on the Mavi Marmara, May 31, 2010, and to the 34 murdered American sailors on the USS Liberty, June 8, 1967 â all victims of an unrepentant criminal state – Israel. - By James Petras,  Israel Crimes on the High Seas On June 8, [...]
  • Hero “neighbor” lives in his car
    This headline sounds like a good story as it is but it only gets better from here. One of the neighbors, it turns out, is no longer living in the building. He’s living in his car. Neighbors rescue man from blaze Evicted former tenant is among those who help pull the resident to safety - [...]

electric politics

  • Priorities
    To be honest, the shrimp fishermen don't matter. The Gulf coast tourist traps don't matter. The economic effects of the spill. Don't matter. It's not about the money. What matters is that we're destroying the environment, killing countless innocent creatures. I keep hoping things may not be quite a ...
  • Regime Change Politics
    We tell ourselves that humans are sentient animals. Yet here in the U.S. our politics seem rather more directed by delusion, or denial, than reason. Collectively, we not only do not know that our political system does not produce democratic results, we pretend the results are democratic no matter h ...
  • The Death and Life of Intelligence Analysis
    Magical thinking drives the Neocons' perpetual efforts to start a war with Iran. Politicians, by and large, fail to apprehend the danger. If it weren't for analysts like Dr. Thomas Fingar — and many others — who have held the line on explaining the real costs of war, we would by now be well and tru ...
  • (Unlawful) Targeted Killing
    The U.S. government should not murder people abroad. A simple enough rule, yet in a bizarre, barbaric, and cold-blooded fashion Washington now not only claims the right to murder anyone it wants, anywhere it wants, abroad, including American citizens, but actively carries out such intent with drone ...
  • The Power of Imagination
    Harkening back to an earlier age, the prolific and brilliant author and anthologist Michael Sims helps us to understand science, natural history, literature, and all manner of other things. A Renaissance man. In Dracula's Guest he explores through Victorian eyes the universal human fear of the dark ...

PR News

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Understanding the Nine Veils
    Understanding the Nine Veils By A. True Ott, PhD Nearly a decade ago, a dear friend and colleague of mine named Don Harkins authored a wonderfully thought-provoking piece entitled “Slavery and the eight veils.   Prior to Harkins’ untimely death, we discussed this “Eight-veils theory” for literally h ...
  • Is there hidden messaging in The Simpson’s c ...
    Today, a friend named Alex sent me this post: Watch this video to understand how hollywood has given us early indications of foreknowledge of falseflag events including 9/11 and Katrina.  Consider the series “V” coming up on Jan 4 such predictive programming, and liken the “red rain” to chemtrails.  ...
  • The Bursting Debt Bubble – Power Point
    To see Dr. Ott’s newest power point – and to follow along with his radio broadcast, click here:   The Bursting Debt Bubble This is clearly THE BIGGEST STORY in American History. Spread the word — and Merry Christmas – (no thanks to the treasonous traitors at Goldman Sachs.)  
  • UTAH SOUND MONEY ACT (Brilliant!!!)
    Today I was introduced to Mr. Larry Hilton, JD, MBA – the author of a brilliant piece of much needed legislation that hopefully will pass the Utah legislature, and then each and every other state in this union. Here is his introduction to me for the “Utah Sound Money Act” —- Click here:  Sound Mone ...
  • Long Live King and Queen Obama!!!!
    Barack Obama enjoys living like a king, so why shouldn’t Michelle Obama live like a queen? The First Lady was photographed last night in Hawaii wearing $635 per pair designer shoes by Maison Martin Margiela. A woman lucky enough to have a job in this economy and working for the federal minimum wage ...

k2p blog

  • Hausergate: In scientific misconduct “confir ...
    In the case of Marc Hauser, even assuming that his faults were due to "confirmation bias" then either it was behaviour which remained entirely in the sub-conscious in which case his values and morality are suspect, or it was triggered into the conscious and he continued anyway in which case it was s ...
  • UK degrees downgraded
    Six out of 10 students at UK Universities were handed either a first or an upper second in 2010 compared with just one in three graduates in 1970.
  • Time Magazine and its unwavering view of climate c ...
    From Watts Up with that: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/01/01/time-magazine-and-global-warming/#more-30704 �
  • 2011
    Happy New Year
  • Ethics of Journals: When plagiarism is not plagiar ...
    Plagiarism is not plagiarism apparently when the editor of the journal BMC Medical Ethics finds that a paper published in his own journal has copied large chunks from a different Journal.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Expedia Pulls American Airlines Listings From Site
    Expedia.com has wasted no time in picking the first travel industry fight of 2011. Less than two weeks after American Airlines parted ways with Orbitz.com, Expedia has made its stance clear by removing all American listings from its pages. In the days after the Orbitz news, Expedia had expressed s ...
  • Consumerist's Most-Read Stories Of 2010
    From strange sandwiches to even stranger luggage, from rude receipts to corporate misdoings, here's a look back at the 10 most read stories on Consumerist for 2010. 1. KFC's Bacon Sandwich On Fried Chicken "Bread" Starts Killing People Nationwide April 12 2. 10 Of The Strangest Unclaimed Airline ...
  • My Online Order Didn't Get To Me, But GameStop, UP ...
    Bruce ordered an Xbox 360 bundle from GameStop, but says the package never arrived. UPS says it left the package at his door and told Bruce to complain to GameStop, which isn't responding. He writes: I can't seem to get a human response from GameStop's customer service. For Christmas, I decided ...
  • What New Year's Resolutions Should Companies Be Ma ...
    2010 is just about all wrapped up and many of us are at least paying lip service to self-improvement by making new year's resolutions. So in that optimistic spirit, let's see if we can come up with some resolutions that retailers and other companies should adopt for 2011. Maybe cable and internet ...
  • This Is Your Last Chance To Help Consumerist And C ...
    Hi, Tax Cat here. If you're looking for a way to cut your 2010 taxes, and show the Consumerist some love, have I got a deal for you! But hurry. You've got just a few more hours to do it. You have until midnight tonight to make a donation to Consumerist and use it as a deduction on your 2010 taxes ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • GAP Applauds Merit Systems Protection Board Revers ...
    Today, GAP is praising a Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) ruling last week that reverses a far-reaching November 2009 decision exempting national security positions from protections under the civil service merit system. (Conyers v. Dep’t Defense, 2010 MSPB 2047, December 22, 2010) What a ...
  • GAP Statement on WPEA Secret Hold
    The following statement regarding the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act can be attributed to GAP Legal Director Tom Devine: “This holiday season, a Republican senator gave taxpayers a secret Scrooge. After unanimous House approval today, and unanimous Senate approval last month of a stronge ...
  • House Passes Food Safety Bill; Whistleblower Prote ...
    The New York Times: House Passes Overhaul of Food Laws After facing numerous setbacks, the Food Safety Modernization Act received final approval from the House of Representatives yesterday with a vote of 215 to 144. President Obama has indicated that he will sign the bill. The legislation ...
  • Corporate Whistleblower Protections Included in Fo ...
    Protections Cover Workers in Industries Regulated by FDA; GAP Calls for Similar Rights for Federal Workers to be Passed (Washington, D.C.) – Today, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) is praising Congress for passing the most comprehensive whistleblower protections for food industry w ...
  • FCC Votes on New Internet Access Rules; TSA Questi ...
    Washington Post: FCC Set to Enact New Rules Affecting Internet Access The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is set to vote today on a set of rules that would bolster “net neutrality” -- a principle that calls for Internet Service Providers (ISP) to treat all legal Internet traffic equall ...

UK Progressive

  • 2011: Year of Upheaval
    by Brent Budowsky 2011 will be a year of controversy and conflict for President Obama, Congress and national politics that will bring revolts within both major political parties and a rising demand for a third-party candidate in 2012. Here are my major predictions: President Obama will try to surpri ...
  • Brian Williams on Morning Joe Says Media Quit Cove ...
    NBC News anchor and Managing Editor Brian Williams and Morning Joe host, former Congressman Joe Scarborough discuss the top stories of the past year, they cite the lack of attention in the media and White House as key. Both said the President underestimated the spill and hoped the oil spill, like th ...
  • New Years Prediction (II): The U.S. Economy in 201 ...
    by Robert Reich What will happen to the US economy in 2011?  If you’re referring to profits of big corporations and Wall Street, next year is likely to be a good one.  But if you’re referring to average American workers, far from good. The two American economies — the Big Money economy and the Avera ...
  • Happy New Year!
    His name is Mike Dooley. Some of you saw him 1st in the film The Secret, others were long-time members of his TUT Adventurers Club, still others of us know him from our days together back at Price Waterhouse. He’s clearly come a long way from PW (before the C). Daily he creates an inspirational [... ...
  • Should Kwanzaa Stay in Black Neighborhoods?
    Rev. Irene Monroe Immediately following Christmas this year will mark Kwanzaa’s thirty eighth anniversary. From Dec. 26 through Jan. 1, millions of African Americans, like myself, will start their week-long celebration by greeting families and friends with the Swahili term “Harbari gani!” which mean ...

NewsAlert

  • What Are They Feeding the Badgers?
    The Wall Street Journal
  • Top 25 jobs with most openings
    The Chicago Sun-Times
  • Stimulus bonds fell far short of goal
    The Philadelphia Inquirer reports:The 2009 federal Recovery Act included a $15 billion bond program that allowed private companies to borrow money for certain projects at a tax-free interest rate. The hope was to jump-start economic development in areas picked by county governments and help pull th ...
  • Marx in the City
    Breitbart T.V.
  • Your body is thwarting your weight-loss efforts
    Raleigh News and Observer has a good article on getting fat:Even though people are hard-wired to find rich foods pleasurable, most are not addicted in the sense of becoming increasingly compulsive and self-destructive. But in an unprecedented environment of food abundance, a steady diet of cheesebu ...

JoNova

  • Busted predictions from brazen prophets
    What is most astounding about the human race is that people like Erhlich, who predicted vast coastlines would be evacuated due to rotting fish by 1980, or Oppenheimer with a black blizzard of sand covering a continent (by 1995), people who have long proven to be arrant failures at making predictions ...
  • What does it take for a worldwide consensus? Just ...
    It’s true, 97%-of-experts agree the world is going to hell in a handcart. It’s part of the frontline toolkit used by the Big Scare Campaign. Do a google search on “97% of climate scientists agree” and 3,920,000 links turn up. Like everything in the Big Scare Campaign, a tiny semi-dried kernel of tru ...
  • While the Cat is away……
    Of course it is really great that Jo has some leisure time! Jo has mentioned us “unsung moderators” before but she also left us with keys to the shop. So maybe we can have some fun while she is away. Pick your topic. Post anything you want (within reason*) and see what happens! When Jo [...]
  • Another test of the BOM vs Corbyn
    Piers Corbyn of WeatherAction appears to be getting noticed (finally). Recently, the Telegraph reported on The man who beats the Met Office. But, some people (especially outside the UK) don’t seem to realize Corbyn has been doing this for a long time. He started placing bets on his predictions way b ...
  • Merry Christmas
    The immovable wall met the inflexible mind this week. The bitterly cold weather brought out some spectacular cases of cognitive dissonance. The Greg Graven’s who were overcome with passion, and the Monboit’s who were overcome with the complete “suspension of disbelief” whilst hunting for ways to rat ...

ReNew America

  • Boehner's new House rules reflect tea party princi ...
    (Emily Miller) - Republican House leaders released a draft of new rules for the 112th Congress, which address many of the reforms advocated by the Tea Party...
  • Note to Uncle Sam: hands off the internet
    (Michael Reagan) - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to get its grasping hands around the throat of the Internet, the international town hall where Americans have been free to express their opinions without Big Brother's permission or interference. That makes the FCC unhappy...
  • Obama sidesteps hill with EPA carbon limits
    (NewsMax) - The Obama administration will use government agencies and the Clean Air Act to push through its global warming agenda after failing in Congress. FoxNews.com reports that on Jan. 2 new carbon limits will be set and the Environmental Protection Agency will then draw up regulations requirin ...
  • Hawaii's war on 'birthers'
    (Joseph Farah) - The new governor of Hawaii has made it clear in interviews with the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and other media that he's going to war with those of us who demand proof of Barack Obama's constitutional eligibility for the presidency...
  • The military should not be gay 'positive-liberty'
    (Tim Dunkin) - Recently, my fellow columnist Jamie Freeze at Renew America took the decidedly un-conservative position of supporting the recent repeal of the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) policy. Erroneously hiding behind an appeal to "liberty," she presented several short arguments for ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • More 2012 Bunkers
    I have three different sources regarding bunkers being built for 2012: Hush-hush, where my contacts give me details, but I am sworn to secrecy Conspiracy forums and blogs – usually unsubstantiated From the builders themselves An example of conspiracy information is the bunker that the Walmart Walton ...
  • New Year Earthquake?
    The two earthquakes which had the most fatalities in the last 5 years occurred within 5 days of a solar eclipse: Haiti Earthquake January 12, 2010 230,000 deaths Solar Eclipse January 15, 2010 Kashmir Earthquake October 8, 2005 79,000 deaths Solar Eclipse October 3, 2005 The next (partial) eclipse i ...
  • Nanodiamonds / Neanderthals / Seas Still Rising
    Nanodiamonds Discovered in Greenland Ice Sheet – adding weight to the theory of a cometary or asteroid impact event roughly 13,000 years ago. Did volcanoes wipe out the Neanderthals? If so it would be a neat solution, but not one that explains how our forefathers survived (given that we were not as ...
  • 5000+1 Bunkers for Moscow
    Russia has some mega-bunkers where presumably indispensable folk can be kept safe, but what about the common people in Moscow? Looks like they will be safe from the [insert SHTF scenario here, but they want us to think nuclear war] as well. Announced a few weeks back on Russia Today are plans to bui ...
  • Lunar Eclipse = Quakes?
    The evidence is (perhaps) stacking up. Mitch Battros of Earth Changes Media, as well as many other researchers (even my Facebook status!) suggested that yesterday’s lunar eclipse could cause an earthquake. And it looks like it did: Japan’s Meteorological Agency said the quake occurred about 130 kilo ...

Facing South

  • Eight homeless youth die in New Orleans fire -- wh ...
    By Bill Quigley Eight young people, who the Fire Department said were "trying to stay warm," perished in a raging fire early Tuesday morning in New Orleans. The young people were squatting in an abandoned wood framed tin walled warehouse in a Ninth Ward neighborhood bordering a large train yard. Th ...
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