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Thomas Paine

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Sunday, January 23, 2011

23 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt 1

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  • Dispirited Arabs Burning for Change
    Upset over a policy that prevented him from buying subsidised food, Egyptian restaurant owner Abdou Abdel Moneim travelled to Cairo to find someone in parliament to help. When security officers prevented him from submitting his complaint to MPs entering parliament, the 49-year-old man doused ...
  • Mexico Tempted to Shift From Tortillas to Ethanol
    Farmers' protests and the rise in corn tortilla prices in late December put temporary brakes on the Mexican Senate, which was preparing to lift the national ban on utilising maize to make fuel alcohol, or ethanol.
  • EU Pushed to Get Tougher With Israel
    In what could be a seismic shift in international attitudes towards Israel's illegal occupation of East Jerusalem, European diplomats are calling for strong action against Israeli policy in a secret document made public recently.
  • Europe Begins to Run Short of Water
    Half of the Czech Republic's population could face water shortages because of climate change, a top climate change expert has warned.
  • BRAZIL: "Don Quixote" of River Transport Starting ...
    It is mere ignorance that stands in the way of Brazil having a broad network of navigable waterways and leads to the wasted potential of the country's great rivers, laments José Alex de Oliva, superintendent of inland navigation at Brazil's national waterways transport regulator (ANTAQ).

Scoop - NZ

  • Afghan A-G says fraud invalidates election
    The Afghan Attorney-General says he hopes a special court, appointed by the President to look into election fraud, will throw out the results of the country's parliamentary elections and delay the planned inauguration of a new parliament today. Mohammed Ishaq Aloko, a strong supporter of Presiden ...
  • Fisk: Names of Hariri killing suspects handed to j ...
    A deeply embarrassing tape of Saad Hariri, the outgoing Lebanese Prime Minister, blaming the Syrians for his father's murder, a threat by Hezbollah's allies to indict Mr Hariri for corruption, and continued fear – on the part of just about everyone – that the UN tribunal have named Hezbollah members ...
  • The Dam Breaks in Portugal
    I had a sense of deja vu this morning when Teodora Cardoso, the Adminstradora of the Banco de Portugal, blurted out in a conference that her country should turn to the IMF. “It would be easier if we had external support because the adjustment would be less abrupt: if we leave it to the markets it m ...
  • Blumenthal: The Great Islamophobic Crusade
    Nine years after 9/11, hysteria about Muslims in American life has gripped the country. With it has gone an outburst of arson attacks on mosques, campaigns to stop their construction, and the branding of the Muslim-American community, overwhelmingly moderate, as a hotbed of potential terrorist recru ...
  • Old Jet Retooled to Slay Stealth Fighters
    It's been just three weeks since China unveiled its new J-20 stealth fighter, and already the U.S. Air Force has plans well underway to defeat the

Independent - London

  • Israeli inquiry rules that flotilla raid was legal
    An Israeli inquiry cleared the government and military today of wrongdoing in the bloody seizure of a Turkish aid ship that tried to breach the Gaza blockade, saying passengers were to blame for the violence.
  • Car bombs kill 10 in Baghdad
    A flurry of morning bombs killed 10 people and wounded 34 around Baghdad, police said, in what one Iraqi official called an attempt to undermine security ahead of a much anticipated meeting of Arab heads of state in two months.
  • Irish Greens due to make coaltion decision
    Ireland's junior coalition partners the Greens will today decide if it will pull out of Government over the dramatic resignation of Taoiseach Brian Cowen as leader of the ruling Fianna Fail party.
  • Australia set for another week of floods
    Rural Australian towns braced for another week of flooding Sunday as a vast lake continued to spread across the country's southeast and a potential tropical storm threatened the northeast.
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  • US drone strikes kill six in Pakistan
    A pair of suspected US drone strikes killed six alleged militants in Pakistan's troubled North Waziristan tribal area near the Afghan border Sunday, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
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Innovation Canada

  • Quitting time
    Despite the best intentions of a 34-year-old National Non-Smoking Week, which starts on Jan. 16, one of the most disheartening things for anyone trying to quit smoking is the extremely high likelihood that his or her efforts will end in failure. “Even with proper treatment, around 70 to 80 percent o ...
  • Discoveries of the deep
    Oceans cover more than 70 percent of the planet. Hidden beneath them is an entire world we know very little about, a world of undersea mountain ranges and ocean basins that play host to hundreds of thousands of underwater species. In the late 1990s, marine scientists expressed their concern with thi ...
  • Shakin' all over
    At the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) in Kingston, Ont., Richard Bathurst is a mover and a shaker. Literally. Over the past 20 years, Bathurst, a civil engineering professor who is cross-appointed to Queen’s University, has become an internationally recognized authority on earthquake-resista ...
  • The year in review
    Welcome to 2011! Before we launch into a new year of covering cutting-edge Canadian research, we’re going to rewind and look back at some of the success stories we featured on InnovationCanada.ca in 2010.  Some recurring themes in Canadian research this year were: biodiversity, aboriginal culture, a ...
  • Celebrating Arctic research
    When you turn 50, there’s a tendency to sit back and celebrate your accomplishments. But some 50-year-olds prefer to be bold and try new things. Such is the case for the University of Alberta’s Canadian Circumpolar Institute (CCI). Between building university-degree programs in the North and finding ...

Signs of the times

  • Lactose Intolerance Can Be A Symptom Of Gluten Int ...
    Many people are told that they have a lactose intolerance and are never investigated further to find the cause. Usually, only a lactose-free diet is recommended. I think we (doctors, nurses) need to dig a little deeper. Gluten could be the trigger and a a gluten-free diet could be the real solution. ...
  • The Big Lie
    If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. -Joseph Goebbels(pictured left), Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to ...
  • Social Networking Under Fresh Attack as Tide of Cy ...
    Twitter and Facebook don't connect people - they isolate them from reality, say a rising number of academics The way in which people frantically communicate online via Twitter, Facebook and instant messaging can be seen as a form of modern madness, according to a leading American sociologist. "A ...
  • Video: U.S. shivers from season's coldest weather
    Bitter cold grips most of U.S. Currently the North Eastern United States and as many as 32 Eastern States are seeing heavy winter snow. Temperatures in many states are seeing double digit negative temperatures. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
  • Vietnam: Cold Ruins Peach Blossom Harvest
    Ha Noi - Horticulturalist Tran Tien Dung feels sad as he looks around his garden of 500 peach-blossom trees. More than half show no sign of being able to open their gorgeous red or pink flowers for Tet. It is a poignant reminder for Dung, and all Hanoians, of the remarkable cold spell that is hov ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Fraud as a business model . . .
    WASHINGTON'S BLOG is a relatively new blog, wherein contributors anonymously post articles of some probity without being flamed personally. Probably a Good Idea. Why? Well, the article, "Government Says No to Helping States and Main Street, While Continuing to Throw Trillions at the Giant Banks" is ...
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    Fictional Mayberry or Toronto?
  • Barney & Gomer Coming to Your Neighbourhood Soon . ...
    As soon as harperco "improves" their citizen's arrest legislation, we can all live like we were in Mayberry, North Carolina. Yee haw . . . .
  • Homeland insecurity . . .
    Homeland Security has forced WalMart to run in store ads asking Americans to report suspicious activity of other Americans. Really.
  • Perspective changes . . .
    CRYSTAL METH THE SELF-PORTRAIT MAY BE the most egotistical artistic creation, or not, but the self-portrait allows the viewer an artistic appraisal and an insight into the composition of another's psyche in a fashion that is unique. io9 has an account by Lauren Davis, "The self-portraits of an artis ...

Media Matters for America

  • Wal-Mart's Healthy Foods Initiative Sparks Outbrea ...
    Within a day of�Michelle Obama and Wal-Mart's joint announcement of the company's�Healthy Foods Initiative, conservative media figures accused the Obama administration of threatening Wal-Mart to get the company to offer healthier foods.Wal-Mart Partners With Michelle Obama To Announce Healthy Foods ...
  • After Promoting Anti-Gay Rhetoric, Breitbart is Na ...
    GOProud, the conservative group for gay conservatives and their allies, just appointed Andrew Breitbart to their board. However, Breitbart and his contributors at his BigPeace, BigGovernment, BigJournalism and BigHollywood sites have repeatedly engaged in incendiary anti-gay rhetoric. Additionall ...
  • Glenn Beck Knows What's In Your Gut
    Fox News' Glenn Beck routinely advises his viewers to listen to their gut, which, he makes clear, has the same views as Beck.Beck Insists That Your Gut Is God's "Early Warning System" Beck: Your Gut Is God's "Early Warning System." From the February 20, 2009 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck: BECK ...
  • Krauthammer Clinging To Tired Health Care Reform F ...
    In his Washington Post column, Charles Krauthammer pushed the long-debunked claim that the health care reform bill's deficit reduction is "phony" and falsely claimed that the CLASS Act is a "reckless entitlement program." In fact, the bill continues to reduce the deficit after the first 10 years, a ...
  • Hannity Now Outraged At Nazi Comparison -- But He' ...
    Sean Hannity expressed outrage over "comparing people to Nazis." �But Hannity previously compared Rep. Keith Ellison's decision to use the Quran for his swearing in ceremony to using "Hitler's�Mein Kampf,"�which Hannity called "the Nazis'�Bible."Hannity Lashes Out At "Comparing People To Nazis" H ...

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TPM Cafe

  • Glenn Beck Endangers a 78-year-old Radical -- and ...
    Glenn Beck is eager to show that Pima County Sheriff' Clarence Dupnik was right when he said that the Tuscon massacre owed as much to what's been in the air lately as it does to whatever was in Jared Loughner's mind. "The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be o ...
  • Deadbeat Nation
    We are a nation of deadbeats. Why this intemperate outburst, you ask? I speak of the rising hue and cry over public employee pensions. You see, it works like this. Voters allowed the nincompoops they elected to hire people with promises of a certain trajectory of salary and benefits. I say "tra ...
  • The Real Economic Lesson China Could Teach Us
    Highlighting today's summit between Chinese President Hu Jintao and President Obama is China's agreement to buy $45 billion of American exports. The President says this will create more American jobs. That's not exactly right. It will create more profits for American companies but relatively few new ...
  • Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin Libels Steve Clem ...
    Fred Hiatt, op-ed page editor of the Washington Post, has almost single-handedly destroyed what it took Katherine Graham decades to build. It is now a neocon mouthpiece, dedicated not to pursuing facts but to advancing an agenda. It helped get us into the Iraq war. It does the same with Iran ...
  • Obama: Reset Your Middle East Policy Before It's T ...
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    Things are looking up in Israel. On Saturday night, close to 20,000 people took to the wintry streets of Tel Aviv to demand peace. It was the first major demonstration in years, and was an indication that, particularly among the youth, hope is on its way back. It is also a sign that many Israe ...

TruthOut

  • "Greatest Nation" Rhetoric Roars Back
    My greatness as a writer is simply a fact. You don't agree? Well, then obviously you are churlish or malevolent. If I were serious about such a claim of superiority, now would be the time to stop reading - on the reasonable assumption that I'm a dull-witted bore with no capacity for critical self-r ...
  • The US "Rethinks" the UN Declaration on Indigenous ...
    On Tuesday, 16 December 2010, the US reversed the Bush administration's strong opposition to the United Nations Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), adopted by 143 countries in 2007 after nearly 30 years of hard-fought negotiations and activism. Australia, Canada, New Zealand and th ...
  • Corporate and Congressional Disasters
    Corporate crime and wrongdoing is an everyday fact of life in the United States and around the world. Still, the last year has been remarkable for a series of high-profile, deadly corporate disasters: the BP Deepwater Horizon catastrophe that killed 11 workers and spewed millions of gallons of oil i ...
  • If Only Employees Enjoyed the Same Rights as Crimi ...
    Imagine being accused of a crime you did not commit, a crime so serious that the penalty was capital punishment. Naturally, with your life at stake, you would want the best attorney possible, someone who would stand with you and fight for justice. Among other things, your attorney would tell you tha ...
  • Dispirited Arabs Burning for Change
    CAIRO, Jan 23, 2011 (IPS) - Upset over a policy that prevented him from buying subsidised food, Egyptian restaurant owner Abdou Abdel Moneim travelled to Cairo to find someone in parliament to help. When security officers prevented him from submitting his complaint to MPs entering parliament, the 49 ...

Planetsave

  • Quantum Breakthrough: Tiny Optical Device Slows Li ...
    The speed of Light, denoted as ‘c’ in physics equations like Einstein’s famous E=mc², is approximately 186,282 miles per second, which equals over 6 trillion miles traveled in one year (i.e., one light year). It represents the limiting speed at which “information” may by transmitted. Being able to ...
  • Win a New Book! (Hot or Water Matters)
    It’s been awhile since we did a book giveaway, but I recently got two great offers and I’m happy to announce the opportunity for you to win either of these great books. First, a quick look at the books: Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth This book, just released on Wednesday, looks... ...
  • Flamingos (10 Saturday Photos from Wonderland)
    LC’s eye via Flickr Hi there, I’m sorry not to upload 10 Friday Photos last week, but I was kidnapped and taken to Wonderland! Well, one of all the amazing creatures there were flamingos with their awesome, pink feathers and majestic poise. I found some photos of them so you can look at them and... ...
  • Gorilla, Chimpanzee Heads and Leopard Skins Seized ...
    The following is a guest post from the WWF. Law enforcement officers in Gabon have arrested five men accused of possessing illegal animal products, including those of endangered species. The raids, conducted by the country’s Water and Forest and Defense Ministries with the assistance of WWF partner ...
  • Climate Science Mistake,.. Don’t Go Overboard or M ...
    You may have heard about the mistake in a recent report published by an NGO on climate change and food production in the next 10 years. I imagine global warming deniers jumped all over it and maybe even the mass media did (haven’t checked to find out). Here’s a great account of what happen via... Re ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Barack Obama: As Bad as Bush - Bolivarian Republic ...
    His enemies call him a tyrant and a dictator, but he is neither. Hugo Chavez is a tireless champion of the poor and a committed Christian socialist. The only difference between Chavez's type of Christianity and Barack Obama's, is that Chavez walks the walk. For example, on Tuesday, Chave ...
  • In Israel/Palestine, Occupation Has No Future - Pa ...
    A new documentary focuses on Israeli militarism and explores the work of Israelis and Palestinians organizing against the occupation. Upheaval Productions, January 22, 2011 In the Fall of 2009 I had the privilege of following a delegation of US veterans and war resiste ...
  • Two Dragons in the Sichuan Mountains - World View
    Editor’s Note: In his book, Taoism, The Road to Immortality, John Blofeld tells of one of his visits to the hermitages in the mountains of China where Taoist masters lived, 'cultivating the Way'. This is a story of a recluse he met at a hermitage he found in the Sichuan...
  • GMOs : Myths, Falsehoods, Superstitions - Environm ...
    Quote: "The International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) carried out by 400 scientists over four years for the UN has categorically stated that the future of food security does not lie in genetic engineering. This is the largest and late ...
  • WikiLeaks points to US meddling in Haiti - Media C ...
    US embassy cables reveal how anxious the US was to enlist Brazil to keep the deposed Jean-Bertrand Aristide out of Haiti Confidential US diplomatic cables from 2005 and 2006 released this week by WikiLeaks reveal Washington's well-known obsession to keep exiled ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • GOP has a jobs program -- for the Military Industr ...
    So, the Republican Study Committee has come up with its $2.5 trillion deficit reduction plan that tears the guts out of programs regular people depend on but slices not one dime from the Pentagon. The Washington Post's Dana Milbank thinks Republicans are just using this budget to launch a new "cultu ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Genuine American Domestic Terrorist and Murderer now on trial "There's another infamous shooting of a nine-year-old girl that is making headlines this week in Tucson. This time, we wonder if the rest of the media will bother to cover it. The little girl's name was Brisenia Flores. She lived near the ...
  • House Rethuglicans Propose New Tax as Punishment
    The misogynist rethuglicans have been warning you for 38 years: if Americans didn't outlaw abortion and force women back to the Dark Ages of forced childbirth, terrible things would happen. Now they're making good on that threat: House Rethugs want to make you pay a tax if your health insurance comp ...
  • JP Morgan Makes Huge Bucks From Food Stamps and Ot ...
    In what has to be one of the slimiest ways the big banks have found to profit on the backs of the poor and working classes, I offer the following: JP Morgan Makes Big Bucks from Food Stamp Growth, Then Hires Workers in India with Our Tax Dollars JP Morgan is the largest processor of food stamp benef ...
  • Alabama Governor's Bigoted Remark Shouldn't Surpri ...
    Christian exclusivism is certainly nothing new. It's what most "conservative" Christians believe -- that only those who have accepted Christ as their savior will go to Heaven. So, the only thing that should be surprising about what Gov. Robert Bentley, R-Ala., said in an address on the Martin Luther ...

Care 2

  • Help End Sponsorship of the Iditarod Race ! PLEAS ...
    Please help end the horrific treatment of dogs by sending protest emails to organizations that support the Iditarod. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Out in the open: The baby wallaby who hid in his m ...
    The latest arrival at West Midland Safari Park is proving to have a real spring in it's step.Believed to have been born sometime in November,this tiny white wallaby surprised zoo staff this week when he was spotted for the first time in his mother's pouchSubmitted by Yrna M. to Animals �|� �Note-it ...
  • Nepal translocates first wild tiger to new home
    A wild tiger fitted with satellite-collar was successfully translocated from Nepal�s Chitwan National Park to Bardia National Park for the first time on 22 January 2011 Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Assassination of Pakistani Governor Causes Fear of ...
    Christians in the Yuhanabad district of Lahore in Punjabi Province are fearful after the Province Governor Salmaan Taseer was assassinated for being a vocal supporter of Asia Bibi�s release from prison under blasphemy laws. Asia remains imprisoned and is Submitted by Chaplain Andrea to World �|� �N ...
  • Protect Tigers: If You Don't Buy, They Don't Die!
    Sign your name pledging to do all you can to protect precious wildlife. Then read up on the tips below that you can utilize to help preserve the beautiful wild tiger. Submitted by Chaplain Andrea to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
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Smirking Chimp

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No Quarter

  • Countdown flashback: Larry Johnson on Mary McCarth ...
    Editor’s Note: Special thanks to our videographer Truthtelling007 who has a great compilation of Larry Johnson’s appearances on television. (See a list, and the link to all, in the right column.) With the closing down of Countdown, I can now say I have a fairly complete archive of the show. Regardle ...
  • A Clinton/Obama Trip Down Memory Lane With WalMart
    * Bumped Up * You may recall during the 2008 Democratic Primary Campaign, Hillary Clinton was attacked by Barack Obama about her connections to Wal-Mart while First Lady of Arkansas. Oh, yes, he got just a tad testy as she was highlighting his constant “WORM”-ing (What Obama Really Meant). So he las ...
  • Bad Luck Cadet #15 – You’re Not Dead Until I Say Y ...
    Testing Hell Week Begins is the fifteenth in a series of posts on my misadventures in becoming a police officer. The first in this series is Accidents Happen. I became a police officer while suffering a midlife crisis in my forties. I became a detective a few years later. Crime in my small town skyr ...
  • Breaking: Keith Olbermann Out at MSNBC
    I just turned on CNN and they’ve got the story. Was he fired or did he leave? They’re speculating. It sounds like contract negotiations (he had two years left) stipulated that he go off the air, and he can’t do TV elsewhere for some time. Please share anything you are hearing and reading. The big [. ...
  • Creating Bankruptcy for States? + Open Thread
    NYT reports that policy makers are looking to help states loaded down with debt. Policy makers are working behind the scenes to come up with a way to let states declare bankruptcy and get out from under crushing debts, including the pensions they have promised to retired public workers. ———– Bankrup ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 3 Awww-Inspiring Animal Friendships
    The story of 3 unusual friendships between ducks and dogs, chickens and cats and hedgehogs and dogs. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How Global Warming Threatens Freshwater Supplies
    Fresh water is in tenuous supplies in many parts of the world. As we move further into the 21st Century, how will our changing Earth affect fresh water supplies? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • The Polyamorous Mating Habits of the Red Squirrel
    To mate with an average of 6-14 males in a single day,is quite uncommon for females in the animal kingdom. However, in this case... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Why Only One Percent of the World's Water Is Drink ...
    The Earth's surface is 71% water. But, just how much is drinkable and how drinkable is it? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 7 Sleepiest Animals on Earth
    Find out which are the sleepiest animals in the world - and who spends most of their life in dreamland! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • The Kids Ain't All Right: FDA: Vitamin C illegal; ...
    “It’s like an epidemic, in the sense that they’re infected with these wrong ideas, and they’re spreading it to other researchers through journals.” -- Dr. John Ioannidis I can't recommend NaturalNews.com enough. For excellent info that has helped me quite a bit thru a still-dubious diet but now wit ...
  • Seize the Year!! It's ours!! Now with Fractal Ante ...
    The last piece of litter I noticed in 2010 was a Four Loko can by the Hiawatha Franklin station. Had a nice New Years roundabout. Basement foursquare. Bonsai tree, Heatbox. Cabooze. Loud basement jamming. Wookiefoot. Igorrr. Stranvisky Conducts Firebird And the new Fractal microwave cloaking dev ...
  • Russia & China not buying BIS Fractional Reserve G ...
    A bit of Xmas cheer pushin back against LA school district police brutality: How a Google Engineer (and Reddit) Got a Teenager Out of Jail for Christmas Fiddlesticks: It's Over: Jason Rosenbaum: BREAKING: FCC breaks Obama's promise, allows corporate censorship online with fake Net Neutrality Previou ...
  • Robert Erickson: Featured Pic for Top 10 Political ...
    Friend of mine says this is still a running gag at her office six months later! :-D My mom is happy the Christmas tablecloth went a bit viral! Star Tribune featured the penny drop as the most photogenic political moment in Minnesota politics for 2010! The boring 2010 campaign season featured one hi ...
  • Metrodome collapse new video closeups panels rippi ...
    Is it Metrodome or Metropolis? No one was injured fortunately. New video closeups from the surveillance cameras posted - its a pretty clear sign of collapse eh? Part 1: Part 2 The damage could block DNC 2012, sure to cheer opponents of the convention. In a satirical press release Nature took credi ...

Daily Censored

  • There Is Something You Need To Do.
    The last thing GW did was to pass on to the banks a free, no strings, no oversight gift of $700,000,000,000 [that’s $700 billion] of your hard earned tax dollars.  Because we did not actually have any $$$ in the bank, as it were, he borrowed the money from the Chinese to do it.  You [...]
  • Roosters, That’s What They Are.
    At a time when this country’s needs cry out for leaders, we get roosters.  They strut around, spouting off nonsense, acting like teenagers who think they know it all, when in reality they haven’t got a clue.  Elected by a supposed majority of the people voting they claim to have a mandate.   Except ...
  • America’s Selective Sympathy for Loss of Life
    INDIAN SPRINGS, NV - APRIL 16: An MQ-1B Preda...Image by Getty Images via @daylife
    America’s Selective Sympathy for Loss of Life: Life, Death and Racism By Solomon Comissiong January 8th 2011 will long be a day marked in infamy throughout the United States. Friends and family of the six Americans whose lives were tragically and needlessly ripped away, by a crazed 22-year old, may ...
  • Help stop Kaplan University! Sign the petition at ...
    Please sign the petition and tell Kaplan, the for-profit blood bank for the Washington Post, that you are opposed to their criminal practices. When Shannon Croteau contacted me sometime ago I was pleased to hear from a Kaplan student but distressed to hear her story.  You see, Shannon was ‘predated’ ...
  • GOP Death Panel and the Coming Holocaust
    The Republicans were right about the fact that there would be death panels.  What they did not say was that they would be on them.  The first thing they want to cut is reimbursements to doctors and hospitals for treating poor people.  They are sentencing poor people to death. Republican Study Group ...

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Equality Trust

  • Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
    A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details...
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  • VAT rise would hit the poorest
    Bill Wilson's VAT motion to the Scottish Parliament reads as follows: That the Parliament notes the warning issued by Save the Children in Scotland that raising VAT to 20% could mean a £31 a week bill for the poorest families in Scotland and that the poorest 10% of the population currently spend ...
  • Excessive pay and bonuses in public sector under s ...
    Daily Telegraph reports on bold moves in the public sector. But what about the private sector which originated the "crazy" bonus system and still leads the way on excessive top pay...?

PDA AMERICA

  • PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
    Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
  • War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
    WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Shahid ...
  • An American Suicide Terrorist
    William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...
  • Video: Peak Oil and a Changing Climate
    Cross-posted from The Nation The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health, while warming the globe in the process. But beyond the damage ...
  • Peter B Collins: Final Podcast of 2010: Progress ...
    Listen to Podcast:  Click Here Prof. David Coates of Wake Forest University and Tim Carpenter of Progressive Democrats of America discuss the new political mix in Washington and offer advice on how to confront the challenges ...

Marler Blog

  • It Is Sometimes Lonely Being a Lawyer
    Perhaps it was being at the memorial service (with 500 others) of a friend’s mom today that made me reflect on my own 53 years to date. Or, perhaps it was being “un-linked” on Linkedin a week ago by a federal regulatory official who felt that linking with me “might send the wrong message” – to whom ...
  • Non-E. coli O157:H7 STEC's Considered a Significan ...
    Prevalence and Characterization of Non-O157 Shiga Toxin Producing Escherichia coli Isolated from Commercial Ground Beef in the United States - Joseph M. Bosilevac and Mohammad Koohmaraie in Appl. Environ. Microbiol. doi:10.1128/AEM.02833-10 Abstract - Escherichia coli O157:H7 is a Shiga toxin (st ...
  • The Reportable Food Registry First Annual Report: ...
    The first annual Reportable Food Registry Report shows that, as Congress intended, the RFR can help FDA track patterns of food and feed adulteration and target FDA’s inspection resources to identify adulterated food/feed and prevent foodborne illnesses. “This report is a measure of our success in r ...
  • On a day that Wyoming Kills Herdshares, Oregon Qui ...
    Joshua Wolfson of the Star-Tribune wrote today that the House Agriculture Committee defeated the bill that would have legalized some sales of raw milk in Wyoming by a 6-3 vote. Two days earlier, the same committee killed legislation that would have removed government oversight of home-produced foo ...
  • Bravo Gouda Cheese E. coli Victim Profiled in Denv ...
    Bruce Finley of the Denver Post profiled our client Madisyn Kirby who was sickened in the E. coli outbreak linked to Bravo Farms Gouda cheese sold at Costco. Three months after she sampled Gouda cheese at a Costco and got sick, a Colorado teenager and her family have bolstered their defenses. No m ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 01.21.11
    Mercedes-Benz asks governments for more hydrogen infrastructure H2 for me and you? Latest Audi toy is a "Auto Union Type C e-tron study" with electric drive My toy car can beat up your toy car. Nissan Leaf de ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.20.11
    Fisker Karma production date set for March Yes, of 2011. In deep with GM's Mark Reuss: "The soul of the company has to be things like the Volt" The shape of things to come. Electric car pages on Wikipedia in ...
  • Chrysler working on hydraulic minivan hybrid with ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Minivan/Van, Technology, Chrysler Chrysler Group CEO Sergio Marchionne and Lisa Jackson, Agency Administrator for the EPA, announced a new research project to bring hydraulic hybrid technology to the marketplace. The new hybrid will be based on Chrysler's Town & Country miniv ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.19.11
    Video: First Model S Alpha build hits the road and it's gorgeous We're ready for our close-up. Detroit 2011: Volvo pushes electric vehicle safety message to the wall [w/video] It's an electric car that's also a Volvo, so you can bet it's ...
  • Tesla Model S begins first phase of road testing [ ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Videos, Tesla, Electric Tesla Model S road testing - Click above to watch the video after the break The last time Tesla Motors released a video about the Model S, it was a lot of talking from the company's vice president and chief engineer for vehicle engineering, Peter Raw ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Part II...Fifty Years After Eisenhower’s Farewell ...
    This week marks the 50th anniversary of President Dwight D. Eisenhowerâs famous farewell speech to the nation, in which he warned against the rise of a "military-industrial complex." We speak with William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation, who trace ...
  • Tucson, Juarez and an Assault Weapons Ban
    The Glock 19 semiautomatic pistol that Jared Loughner is accused of using in his rampage in Tucson, Ariz., is, according to Glock’s website, “ideal for versatile use through reduced dimensions” and is “suitable for concealed carry.” The site continues, “Compact and subcompact Glock pistol model mag ...
  • Amy Goodman on CNN's John King USA
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman appears on CNN’s John King USA on Friday, January 14 at 7pm EST.
  • TONIGHT: Amy Goodman on CNN’s John King USA
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King USA on Friday, January 14 at 7pm EST.
  • Amidst Violence, Thousands in Tunisia Protest for ...
    In Tunisia, thousands of demonstrators have gathered in the center of the capital, Tunis, calling for President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to immediately step down. For the past four weeks, Tunisia has been gripped by a wave of unprecedented protests over unemployment, high food prices and government ...

Digg Green

  • Student wears same jeans every day for 15 mon ...
    A student in Canada wore the same pair of jeans for 15 months straight as an experiment to see if he or the jeans suffered any ill effects.
  • Study: Texas is Lousy at Reporting Outbreaks ...
    The Center for Science in the Public Interest studied ten years' worth of CDC data and decided that the more reporting of such outbreaks a state has, the more likely it is to have a swift-acting, effective public health system. Because Texas only reported an average of one outbreak per one mil ...
  • New study of environmental contaminants in br ...
    The levels of environmental contaminants in a mother's body decrease during breast-feeding. After a year of lactation, the levels of a number of environmental contaminants in breast milk drop by 15 – 94 per cent.
  • How to tame hammering droplets
    People living in older buildings often hear pounding noises in their plumbing or radiator pipes — it’s a well-known effect called a water hammer, which can occur when a valve is suddenly opened or closed in a pipe carrying water or steam, causing a pressure wave to travel down the pipe with eno ...
  • Scientists grow human liver tissue to be used ...
    A new study reports on the success of growing human liver cells on resorbable scaffolds made from material similar to surgical sutures. Researchers suggest that this liver tissue could be used in place of donor organs during liver transplantation or during the bridge period until a suitable don ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • An Empire of Lies, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
    By Les Visible I realize I don’t care much about the news any more; same shit, different sewer. No matter where I get the news I have to listen to people who don’t know what they’re talking about. They get the details right but the timing wrong. They give the details and provide the timing [...]
  • Obama’s Father Saga
  • Just Say No 2 GMO
  • Solar Cycles Cause Global Warming & Cooling, not H ...
    By Nick Anthony Fiorenza Planetary warming has also been observed on Mars, Jupiter, Pluto, and on Neptune’s largest moon Triton during the decades following the peak of the “Solar Grand Maximum” – wonder why – there are no humans there! And Pluto is moving further from the sun in its orbit, thus it ...
  • Latest research links autism to vaccines
    By Paul Fossa Lately there has been a mainstream media (MSM) barrage reporting the vaccinations to autism link is now proven to be false. Even a not so MSM media site recently featured the article “Who Started the Vaccine Autism Hoax?” Disinformation is created out of intentional lies. That`s Big Ph ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Chefs Alice Waters and Dan Barber Back Bluefin Tun ...
    Two of the United Statesâ leading chefs have joined the Center for Biological Diversityâs (CBD) campaign to save bluefin tuna, one of the worldâs most imperiled fish. Alice Waters, owner of Chez Panisse, in Berkeley, Calif., and Dan Barber, owner of Blue Hill in Manhattan, have signed a pledge not t ...
  • The World According to Monsanto – Full Documentary
    The World According to Monsanto is an in-depth Documentary that looks at the domination of the agricultural industry. Related posts:Monsanto News Roundup – A Frankenfood Extravaganza of GMO News Articles Food Inc. – Full Documentary Stop Monsanto Again–GM Alfalfa Threatens to Contaminate Or ...
  • The Aging Activist
    Don’t ever lose your passion or desire to take action for what you believe in. The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:Stop Monsanto Again–GM Alfalfa Threatens to Contaminate Organic Crops Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Bear ...
  • Extreme Makeover Stadium Edition: Eagles Going Gre ...
    In an era where sports stadiums are expanding seat capacities to limits that make fire marshals nervous, itâs nice to see at least one stadium making some environmentally friendly changes. While their team is not one of the 2011 Super Bowl favorites any longer (after losing to the Green Back Packers ...
  • Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon
    As Jeffrey Davis shares in the tagline for his great new greensite EcoSnobberySucks, “every step matters”. It’s a great message (and website) to remind us to stop disliking one another for our differences and start appreciating the steps everyone is taking to make this world a happier, healthier pla ...

Inhabitat

  • Energy-Generating T-Shirts Could Someday Power You ...
    Tired of the tangle of chargers and cords at your feet? Scientists at the University of Texas at Dallas have discovered a way to create energy generating textiles from powder-infused carbon nanotubes. The nanotubes in use will be able to support superconducting particles, such as boron and magnesium ...
  • Top 6 Wind Powered Gadgets That Don’t Blow
    Wind has been used since ancient times to provide free, green power (think of sailboats and windmills), and that old-school tech has not been lost on us in the year 2011. From personal chargers that harness moving air to power up your devices to action-packed toys that get the kick they need from mi ...
  • Heart-Shaped Pendant Necklaces Upcycled from LEGO ...
    With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, we couldn’t help but be enamored by these adorable heart-shaped pendants upcycled from LEGO blocks. An inspired idea by crafty mom of three Michelle of MichellesCharmWorld, these little charms are the perfect way to show your friends, family and especial ...
  • Green Lighting 101: Your Guide to Energy Efficient ...
    When it comes to energy efficiency, the easiest way to start cutting down your monthly bill is through your home’s lighting. By making simple changes to the types of bulbs you’re using, you can be more eco-friendly while saving yourself a pretty penny. Due to all the changes the green lighting indus ...
  • Hironobu Yamabe’s “Short by Short” Frames its Own ...
    Japanese designer Hironobu Yamabeâs âShort by Shortâ is a decorative piece as well as a lesson in waste management. Each Short by Short is an unfinished wood frame, where tongue in cheek, the shadow box showcases the wood shavings that resulted from the construction of the frame itself. Read the res ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Video: Explorer Recounts Deepest-Ever Ocean Expedi ...
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience757568980001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); Fifty-one years ago this Sunday, Swiss engineer Jacques Piccard and Navy oceanographer Don Walsh descended to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, seven miles b ...
  • Quantum Entanglement Could Stretch Across Time
    In the weird world of quantum physics, two linked particles can share a single fate, even when they’re miles apart. Now, two physicists have mathematically described how this spooky effect, called entanglement, could also bind particles across time. If their proposal can be tested, it could help pr ...
  • To Learn Best, Write an Essay
    Trying to remember what you’ve just studied, then writing it down, may be a surprisingly good way to learn. In a study published January 21 in Science, researchers asked 200 college students to spend five minutes reading a short passage about a scientific subject. Afterwards, they were either told ...
  • 8 Beautiful Bioluminescent Creatures From the Sea
    See Also: The Mass Extinction of Scientists Who Study Species Glow-in-the-Dark Shark Turned on by Hormones Jellyfish Eyes Solve Optical Origin Mystery Jellyfish Are the Dark Energy of the Oceans 10 Crazy-Looking New Deep-Sea Creatures
  • Hidden Messages Found in Bird Nest Decorations
    The discovery of messages in raptors’ nests has raised the possibility that many bird species encode signals into these structures, with seemingly decorative flourishes actually full of meaning. Among black kites, scraps of white plastic are used to signal territorial dominance. To other kites, th ...

PakAlert

  • How the U.S. Invented ‘al Qaeda’!
    Al Qaeda was a U.S. creation, specifically a product of inverted right wing psuedo logic. If 'al Qaeda' did not exist, never mind --the shills would invent it and cite it to justify wars abroad, crackdowns on freedom at home! They would bestow upon it a virtual existence via press releases, propagan ...
  • Pakistan’s Media Damaging Pakistan
    Today Hamid Rajput sent me a strange mail that he received from some friend of his. I read it and reread it, it was sending strange messages. Having read it a few times, I came to the conclusion that when our own media is so openly colluding with Indian media houses to harm and bring maximum damage ...
  • 22 Facts Reflecting The Demise Of California
    The following are 22 facts about California that make you wonder why anyone would still want to live in that hellhole of a state....
  • 12 Economic Collapse Scenarios That We Could Poten ...
    What could cause an economic collapse in 2011? Well, unfortunately there are quite a few "nightmare scenarios" that could plunge the entire globe into another massive financial crisis. The United States, Japan and most of the nations in Europe are absolutely drowning in debt. The Federal Reserve c ...
  • Huge Numbers Of Dead Animals, Dead Birds And Dead ...
    Just what in the world is going on out there? Large groups of animals are keeling over dead, thousands of birds are falling out of the sky dead and millions of dead fish are washing ashore all over the globe. Something is happening. Do any of you know what is causing all this, because I sure don't ...

Andy Worthington

  • Video: Forum — “WikiLeaks, State Secrets, Gu ...
    It now seems like an age since I flew into New York’s JFK airport — after an achingly long flight from London that involved sitting around at Heathrow for two hours while the plane underwent maintenance — to be met by my good friend The Talking Dog, who was putting me up in his secret [...]
  • Prisoner Describes Peaceful Protest in Guantánamo ...
    On the first anniversary of President Obama’s failure to close Guantánamo within  a year, as he promised on his second day in office in January 2009, the Center for Constitutional Rights, which has led the legal battle over Guantánamo for the last nine years, and has been responsible for organizi ...
  • What Does Tunisia’s Revolution Mean for Poli ...
    For the twelve Tunisians held in Guantánamo over the last nine years, the news that a popular uprising forced the hated dictator, President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, to flee the country for Saudi Arabia last Friday, after 23 years in power, will have come as a profound surprise, and also as a source ...
  • Andy Worthington Discusses WikiLeaks, Bradley Mann ...
    At 1 am on Tuesday morning, with the jet lag barely diminished from my recent trip to the States to call for the closure of Guantánamo on the 9th anniversary of the prison’s opening, I was, nevertheless, delighted to talk to Chris Cook of Pacific Free Press on his Gorilla Radio show in Victoria, Br ...
  • Former CIA “Ghost Prisoner” Abu Zubayd ...
    For those seeking accountabiity for the senior Bush administration officials and lawyers who established a global torture program in the “War on Terror,” involving extraordinary rendition and torture in a variety of secret prisons, the news that the Polish Prosecutor has today accepted the claims of ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • AFA’s Fischer Recycles Lies in Support of Anti-Gay ...
    For those who perpetrate lies about gays and lesbians, old habits are apparently hard to break. Bryan Fischer, the American Family Association’s loquacious director of issue analysis for government and public policy, responded on Nov. 26 to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s publication a few days ea ...
  • The Last Word: Hatewatch’s 4th Annual Smackdown Aw ...
    A skirt-chasing neo-Nazi huffs about the sexual mores of âthe Jews.â An infamous Fox News personality predicts that one quarter of Americans will be starving come New Yearâs Day. A Southern heritage group initiates a festive commemoration of the war that left more Americans dead than any other. A wo ...
  • World Net Daily Signs on to Nazis-Were-Gays Tall T ...
    World Net Daily (WND) is generally known for its right-wing and conspiracy-oriented bent. However, along with its long-time support for birther arguments and dark warnings about the Federal Reserve, the site also is thick with hard-line anti-gay propagandizing. In November 2010, for example, WND rel ...
  • White Revolution Chief Seeks Kinder, Gentler Ode t ...
    In the ranks of white supremacists, Dec. 8 is a day of celebration. But being who they are, racist skinheads and other neo-Nazis generally treat what they call Martyr’s Day — an event meant to honor those who have died for the cause of white nationalism — as just another excuse for a beer-swilling, ...
  • Assessing Muslim Terrorism: Lies, Damn Lies and Gl ...
    Are you prepared to believe there are 157 million Muslim terrorists in the world? You have a choice: You can take Fox News commentator and radio host Glenn Beckâs word for it â or you can insist on proof. Pausing in the midst of a meandering condemnation of the mainstream mediaâs failure to take him ...

change: org.

  • By Art, By Heart: The Journey of a Prisoner and a ...
    Those of you who've read the posts in my Beyond Incarceration series know that I'm a huge advocate for prison arts initiatives. Art has the power to change lives -- not just of those who are incarcerated, but of those entering prisons from the outside to share their passion for creative expression. ...
  • Stop the House Attack on Critical Mercury Emission ...
    Mercury is known to be an extremely toxic substance and mercury pollution is a major health, social, and economic problem. It is especially harmful to unborn babies, infants, and young children because it is a neurotoxin that can damage developing nervous systems. And just as we are getting to actio ...
  • Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Dollar Signs and Question M ...
    What would you do with $193 million dollars? That's what the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) ban on openly gay servicemembers cost our country between 2004 and 2009, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The GAO says that during that time period, 3,664 ...
  • The Hawkeye State Swoops Down to Snatch Back Votin ...
    It seems that Iowa's newly elected Republican Governor, Terry Branstad, couldn't wait to disenfranchise an entire class of Iowa voters. Just hours after being sworn into office earlier this month, Branstad wasted no time in turning back the legislative clock and issuing an Executive Order that snatc ...
  • Here Come The Counters Again
    Each year during the last week in January, "the counters" gather in cities and towns around the country. A makeshift army of volunteers and service providers descend on shelters, libraries and empty parking lots during the wee hours of the morning to count the citizens of their community who are en ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Social Media and Law Enforcement: Who Gets What Da ...
    by Jennifer LynchThis month, we were reminded how important it is that social media companies do what they can to protect the sensitive data they hold from the prying eyes of the government. As many news outlets have reported, the US Department of Justice recently obtained a court order for reco ...
  • Former UK Prime Minister Blair Reveals Iraq Pledge ...
    Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, has told an inquiry into the 2003 invasion of Iraq that he privately assured George Bush, the US president at the time, that  "you can count on us", eight months before the war. While Blair stopped short of saying he had promised Bush unconditional ...
  • Former CIA “Ghost Prisoner” Abu Zubaydah Recognize ...
    by Andy WorthingtonFor those seeking accountabiity for the senior Bush administration officials and lawyers who established a global torture program in the "War on Terror," involving extraordinary rendition and torture in a variety of secret prisons, the news that the Polish Prosecutor has today ...
  • Spate of Suicide Blasts Rock Iraq
    A spate of explosions across Iraq has killed at least 50 people, most of them in twin suicide car bombings in the holy city of Karbala, the third major attack in as many days. Thursday's attacks mostly targeted pilgrims marking the Shi'ite Muslim mourning day of Arbaeen, and were the ...
  • UK Banking Commission will Consider Breaking up Na ...
    by Jill TreanorA carve-up of big banks is firmly on the agenda, the chairman of Britain's Independent Commission on Banking made clear today, even as he ruled out the most radical solutions designed to avoid the necessity of another multibillion-pound bailout of the financial sector.read more

Lifehacker

  • Recycle Jars and a 5 Gallon Bucket into a Workshop ...
    Frequent DIY projects around your home often yield frequent messes. Cut down on the stray parts, fasteners, and other pieces left behind or improperly put away by making a simple workshop caddy out of food jars and a 5 gallon bucket. More�� ...
  • Learn the Basics of Design This Weekend [Weekendha ...
    Last weekend we looked at resources to teach you how to code, but writing your app is only half the battle. It needs to look good, too. Here are resources to help you learn the basics of design this weekend. More��
  • Fix "Trash Cannot be Emptied" Problems i ...
    Every once in a while, you'll go to empty the trash on your Mac only to have it spit out a "Trash Cannot be Emptied because ______ is in use" error. Here's how to fix that problem. More��
  • Hit Escape to Clear Google Instant's Search Box [V ...
    Say what you want about Google Instant, but it's got some pretty awesome keyboard shortcuts. Google-centric blog Google Operating System lets us know of one more: Just hit Escape to move back up to the search box and type a new query. More ...
  • ScanDrop for Mac Sends Paper to the Cloud, Free fo ...
    Windows/Mac: ScanDrop, a scan-and-send solution previously available on Windows only, directly connects your Mac and scanner to Evernote, Google Docs, or its own service for quick filing. If you need to de-clutter, grab it now, while it's fre ...

Water Privatization

  • Toronto Catholic high schools work to eliminate bo ...
    TORONTO (CNS) -- Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of Toronto are working to create "bottled water-free zones" within their schools.
  • Students battle bottled water
    Green ideas: New Westminster Secondary School students and Marie-Claire Massicotte, left, and Hannah Crisp want bottled water sales banned at their school.
  • Whetting interest in the right to clean water
    WELLAND — Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink — unless, of course, you're able to pay. Development and Peace has entered into its fifth year of the Life Before Profit campaign, this year raising awareness about the right to clean water, a vital human resource.[...]
  • Review urged on privatization laws and prospective ...
    MANILA, Jan. 7 (PNA) -- With the series of increases in utility costs, including the use of Metro Manila's light rail mass transport and its expressway system, a party-list lawmaker on Thursday recommended a review on existing laws on privatization, build-operate-transfer (BOT) scheme and other rela ...
  • Whetting interest in the right to clean water
    WELLAND — Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink — unless, of course, you're able to pay. Development and Peace has entered into its fifth year of the Life Before Profit campaign, this year raising awareness about the right to clean water, a vital human resource.[...]

Guardian

  • Greens pull out of Irish coalition government
    Party leader says patience with Fianna Fáil has 'reached an end' but Greens will still back crucial finance billThe Green party pulled out of the Irish government today, raising the prospect of an earlier than expected general election.The Greens' leader, John Gormley, said the party would still bac ...
  • Clegg ready to back banks breakup
    Nick Clegg says there is a 'very strong case' for separating high-risk 'casino' banking from low-risk high-street bankingNick Clegg today indicated the government would back a breakup of banks to "make them safe" and protect the British economy from having to bail them out again.The deputy prime min ...
  • Israeli raid on Gaza flotilla 'was legal'
    Raid on Gaza-bound ships in which nine activists was killed was legal, government-appointed Turkel commission concludes Israeli soldiers opened fire in self-defence during a raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla of aid ships in which nine activists were killed, an Israeli inquiry concluded today.The assaul ...
  • Huhne doubts 'rogue reporter' claim
    Minister says claim is not consistent with number of hacking targets, as Clegg says he will help choose Coulson successorChris Huhne today cast doubt on claims that phone-hacking at the News of the World was the work of a single rogue reporter.The energy and climate change secretary said on the BBC1 ...
  • Briton denies murder in Iraq deaths
    British security contractor Daniel Fitzsimons tells Baghdad court he is guilty of manslaughter due to diminished responsibilityA British security contractor accused of murdering two colleagues in Iraq has given his first courtroom account of the drunken night that has left him facing a possible deat ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • H for 'human': The missing climate link?
    As many commentators have pointed out down the years, virtually all the hopes expressed by governments in terms of reducing carbon emissions ultimately hang on technology. It stems from the famous IPAT equation: Impact = Population x Affluence x Technology ...sometimes expressed as... Impact = ...
  • Summit misses the 'C-word'
    Some fascinating threads on energy and climate change are swirling around the heads of Presidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao as the two leaders convene in Washington DC. China's energy direction is assured - but is the US's? The "C-word" isn't being mentioned in despatches at all - but the E-word ...
  • Real world of climate: How scary?
    Earlier this week I posted on uncertainty in climate model projections, raising the question of whether lack of certainty made the future more or less "scary" - and what it should mean for policymaking. As would have been expected, I guess, your responses varied greatly - from Maurizio Maurabito's ...
  • Conservation and Schrodinger's cat
    � In Schrodinger's famous thought experiment involving an unsuspecting, limbo-bound feline, the mere act of observing something can change its state. In the real wild world, it's not supposed to happen - to cats or other animals. The very idea of ecological science as it's practised nowadays is ...
  • Ice-cold reality of warming projections
    Glacier melt will contribute to sea level rise - but how much? Given the importance of glaciers in regulating the water supply for a fair fraction of the Earth's population - given also the recent furore over the likely melting date for Himalayan glaciers - there's possibly no hotter topic in clim ...

The Wonk Room

thwap's schoolyard

  • Ottawa Police Scandal: How Right-Wing Authoritaria ...
    So, in response to the major public relations disaster of the Ottawa Police FORCE being investigated for numerous assaults on innocent people, some dim-bulb (no doubt a blubbering, self-pitying cop or one of their moronic relatives or friends) has put together one of those xtranormal instant animati ...
  • Neoliberals' "nirvana" - Us versus Them
    Where are we and where are we going? I might not have time to post anything else today so I thought that my reply to kev in the comments section to yesterday's post is important enough to broadcast here. kev advanced the notion that the government crackdown on dissent, such as we saw at the Toronto ...
  • Listen Up NDP: NO DEALS WITH hARPERCON SCUM
    Far and Wide talks about how, in the face of Ignatieff's apparent eagerness to force an election, the harpercons are cuddling up to the NDP. Far and Wide's take on it is that it's surprising, given all the stuff about Ignatieff's unpopularity and the Liberals' moribund polling, that it's the harperc ...
  • Never Forget: Scum-bags Blair and McGuinty's Abuse ...
    We'll get over it? No. We won't get over it. Authoritarian scum. That's what they are.
  • There's something to be said for this sort of thin ...
    "Today you, .... tomorrow me." From Youngfox Canada.

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Cuccinelli's misuse of the FCA
    Today's Washington Post, Metro section, leads with a story by Rosalind Helderman called "Democrats try to curb Cuccinelli's powers." The story reports on an effort by some Virginia Commonwealth Senators to change state law so that the state Attorney General must get court approval before issuing a " ...
  • NELA to host webinar on new whistleblower remedies
    The National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) has scheduled a webinar called Using New Developments In Whistleblower Laws To Your Client's Advantage.� It will be on March 10, 2011, 11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern. This 90-minute webinar will address new developments in whistleblower law, incl ...
  • ARB holds first oral argument in a SOX case
    Today the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) held its first oral argument in a case under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). Last November, the ARB gave notice of today's oral argument, and invited interested groups to submit friend-of-the-court (or "amicus") briefs. The ARB asked th ...
  • IRS issues proposed whistleblower rule today
    The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is publishing today a new proposed regulation for its whistleblower reward program. In today's Federal Register, the new regulation makes clear that whistleblowers can receive a reward for providing information that prevents the IRS from issuing a refund that is no ...
  • FDA Scientist In Danger of Losing Her Job
    The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) mission is to protect and promote the health and safety of all Americans. Scientists at the FDA have the critical role of ensuring that the FDA fulfills this mission. Unfortunately, when scientists and researchers put the said health and safety of Americans b ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Karl's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
    Handling the "favorites of the week" post this week is Karl, one of our prolific commenter's who's known for calmly responding to questionable claims from other commenters with thorough, detailed insights and a firm grasp of the law and case law. When Mike asked me to do a "Favorites of the Wee ...
  • Francis Ford Coppola On Art, Copying And File Shar ...
    Paul Tamm points us to a really wonderful interview with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, which touches on a whole variety of different topics, but a couple of quotes are likely to be interesting to folks around here. For example, he's asked about copying works of other filmmakers and whether or not ...
  • After Failed Lawsuit Against 'Copying Competitor' ...
    We've pointed out for years that, contrary to popular opinion, repeated studies have shown that things like intellectual property rarely drive innovation. Instead, the biggest drivers of innovation are things like need and competition. Competition is a big one, and intellectual property works agai ...
  • When A Company Choosing Not To Sue A Copycat Is Ne ...
    azuravian points us to the story of how indie developer Twisted Pixel has announced that it has no intention of suing gaming giant Capcom for making what looks pretty clearly to be a blatant copy of its Xbox Live Arcade game 'Splosion Man with the iPhone game MaXplosion. Twisted Pixel's CEO notes t ...
  • DailyDirt: Really Old Biology
    So far, we only know about our own biosphere -- and we don't even know that much about it. People have tried (and have not really succeeded) to re-create an artificial biosphere that could include humans in the mix. It turns out that while life is pretty resilient, it's also somewhat narrowly adap ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Borders, Scale and Mental Boxes
    Michael Lind recently put out a piece in Slate called Let’s Stop Pretending the Constitution is Sacred.  He won’t get any lip from me on that.  I don’t think anything is sacred.  But in making his argument, he ends up undermining one of the key understandings central to his argument.  And I’m ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Looks like Baby Doc got picked up by the police in Haiti today. Some people are wondering why he was allowed to fly in. Some people are wondering if they are really going to prosecute him. I’m wondering why the fuck that murdering bastard has been drinking wine and eating baguettes in France all thi ...
  • On Speech
    I can’t believe the number of articles I have seen about the violent rhetoric of the right and how it is responsible for the Safeway shooting.  (I’m not going to call it the Gifford shooting, because a hell of a lot of people got shot that day and they count too.)   And now rumor [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I feel like I should say something about the anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, but it is just a silent scream at this point.  Haitians are gathering all over Haiti to commemorate, grieve, and try to figure out what the hell to do.  I sincerely hope all white knights will get the hell out of the [ ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I’m sure you all know what a clusterfuck it is in Northern Mexico right now. I wonder if a student movement, or any kind of people movement, can turn it around. (HT @maymaym) As long as we are on southern border issues, the Penn and Teller video in this post on Colorlines is hilarious. And [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

treehugger

  • The President Previews His State of the Union, No ...
    photo via flickr President Obama has sent a special video message to his Obama for American supporters, with a preview of his State of the Union speech, which he will deliver on Tuesday evening. In the 4 minute video, there is plenty of talk about growing the economy and securing a better futur ...
  • Keep Monsanto Out of Your Garden this Spring
    Photo Credit: Alexa Sky. There are plenty of good reasons to avoid Monsanto: Roundup, genetically-engineered beets, corn, and other crops, the fact that they sue farmers after their seeds (a monopoly of their own) contaminate the farmers' own fields, Agent Orange....we could go on and on. Wha ...
  • Plants Can Move Uphill and Downhill in Warming Wor ...
    Photo: Flickr, CC Complex Systems = Complex Interactions So far, it has been widely accepted in scientific circles that on a warming planet, many species of plants would be moving up in altitude to stay in the kind of climate that they have evolved to best survive in. But a new study published ...
  • Memo to NPR: This is Why We Have to Help Species A ...
    Photo: Tara and Karina Why is an NPR Host Laughing at a Pledge to Help Species Adapt to Climate Change? Because he clearly doesn't understand the concept. This should help give us an idea of how poorly climate change and its far-reaching impacts are understood by the media. And not just the ri ...
  • Great Do-It-Yourself Pedal-Powered Snow Plow
    Photo: Craig/Make No Back-Breaking Shovelling, No Pollution Make reader Craig submitted his DIY bike-based snow plow project: "The custom 3-wheel bike with sidecar was made years ago, a replica of a bike my childhood friend had. Last winter I added a snow plow accessory. Up to 1 inch of snow d ...

Biosingularity

  • Problem-solving bacteria crack sudoku
    The appeal of sudoku has spread to the prokaryotic world. A strain of Escherichia coli bacteria can now solve the logic puzzles â with some help from a group of students at the University of Tokyo, Japan. “Because sudoku has simple rules, we felt that maybe bacteria could solve it for us, as long as ...
  • Surgery Dramatically Lowers Blood Pressure
    A California company has shown how to dramatically lower blood pressure in hard-to-treat patients by destroying tiny nerves in the kidney. The nerves are located inside the main arteries leading to the kidney. They affect blood pressure by controlling the release of sodium and an enzyme called renin ...
  • Scientists ferret out a key pathway for aging
    For decades, scientists have been searching for the fundamental biological secrets of how eating less extends lifespan. It has been well documented in species ranging from spiders to monkeys that a diet with consistently fewer calories can dramatically slow the process of aging and improve health in ...
  • New study into bladder regeneration heralds organ ...
    Researchers in the United States have developed a medical model for regenerating bladders using stem cells harvested from a patient’s own bone marrow. The research, published in STEM CELLS, is especially relevant for paediatric patients suffering from abnormally developed bladders, but also represen ...
  • New Drug May Safely Boost ‘Good’ Chole ...
    An experimental pill that boosts levels of “good” HDL cholesterol has cleared a major safety hurdle, renewing hopes of fighting heart disease in a new way. Although the study of the drug, anacetrapib, was designed to look primarily at its safety, researchers say they were stunned by its dramatic eff ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

  • An unusual lion walk at the Dushanbe Zoo and other ...
    Twice a week an employee from the Dushanbe Zoo walks with a lion cub, Vadik; law enforcement agencies confiscated a party of tarantulas in the U.S.; the Dresden Zoo continues its annual inventory.
  • Japanese FM hopes to tone down Russia's stance on ...
    Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara plans to pay a visit to Moscow in February hoping to tone down Russia's stance on the disputed South Kuril Islands, Japan's Kyodo news agency said.
  • Russia's Putin to hold government meeting on banki ...
    Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will hold a government meeting on Monday to discuss the current situation in the domestic banking sector and the strategy of its development until 2015, the government's press office reported on Sunday.
  • Rehearsals for Republic Day parade in India
    India is getting ready for Republic Day, celebrated annually on January 26. Military regiments have been preparing for the parade by marching down Rajpath, the central avenue in New Delhi, every morning for almost a month in spite of the morning chill.
  • Ufa shopping mall fire injures 15 people - health ...
    The fire that broke out in a shopping center in the southwest Russian republic of Bashkiria on Saturday injured 15 people while two people were killed in the blaze, the republican health minister said on Sunday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • This Week in Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for: Spec. Jose A. Torre, Jr. Sgt. Michael P. Bartley Spec. Martin J. Lamar Sgt. Omar Aceves Spec. Jar ...
  • Yes, by all means - let's
    So a clip of Glenn Beck saying opponents have to be shot in the head has surfaced. Since this is precisely the kind of violent, eliminationist rhetoric that is almost exclusively the province of the right among prominent commentators and high ranking elected officials there has been an immediate fr ...
  • The government's subversion of Silicon Alley
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Prior to 9/11 the Bush administration had the National Security Agency (NSA) approach telecommunication giants and essentially coerce them into allowing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance. The one company - Qwest - that r ...
  • TAHITI BOY covers "Stay The Same" by The Shoes
    Free download over here.  No, I’m not turning this into a music blog; the Brockway compilation just hit the linking point yesterday, followed coincidentally by an email on Tahiti Boy’s latest.  Anyone who tops one of my “Best Music” lists gets lifetime free plugs on my site.
  • 2011 Brockway Entertainment Canadian Rap Future Su ...
    Troy at Brockway Entertainment has released his annual CD of new acts, and once again it’s really impressive.  It can be downloaded for free here, and I strongly recommend it.  Give it a few listens - even if you think you don’t like hip-hop.

Organic Consumers.org

  • House Republicans Propose Slashing Ten Environment ...
    USAID, Energy Star, high speed rail, organic certification and weatherization are among the federal environmental and sustainable business programs that would be eliminated by the House Republicans' plan to cut government spending by $2.5 trillion over the next 10 years.Click here to read this artic ...
  • Reading the Tea Leaves for the Future of the Globa ...
    According to classical economic dogma, demand for hot-weather-requiring products like fancy tea in wealthy, northern areas like the United States should benefit everyone. U.S. consumers get a rarefied product they'd otherwise not have access to; warm regions get infusions of hard currency, which fin ...
  • World on the Edge, a Book Review
    World on the Edge, a just-released, 200-page book by Lester Brown, is important for many reasons. For those who still don't understand the depth, immediacy and urgency of the climate crisis, World on the Edge makes that case clearly and understandably with a wealth of hard information. Click here to ...
  • Can Eating Less Meat Curb Climate Change?
    A conservation-minded Texas mom assesses her contribution to climate change, one meal at a time.Click here to read this article
  • Kern County CA to Enforce Sludge Ban
    Kern County supervisors on Tuesday gave environmental health regulators their blessing to begin the six-month process involved in enforcing the Measure E ban on the land application of treated human and industrial waste.Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XXXV
    Si usted lo desea, puede revisar nuestras entregas anteriores sobre esta serie titulada 'Selecciones Especiales del Banco de Imágenes'. Hasta este momento, suman más de 1,000 fotografías dentro de esta categoría. Explore, disfrute y comparta... [1]-[2]-[3]-[4]-[5]-[6]-[7]-[8]-[9]-[10]-[11]-[12][13][ ...
  • Imágenes, frescos y pinturas católicas I (5 elemen ...
    En esta ocasión, el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas, se congratula al presentar su serie titulada 'Imágenes, frescos y pinturas católicas'. Esperando que disfruten estas bellas obras de arte, les reitero mi agradecimiento por su gentil preferencia. ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, nave ...
  • Tributo a nuestro planeta I (7 paisajes naturales)
    Si le gustó a usted esta linda colección de paisajes naturales dentro de la serie 'Tributo a nuestro planeta', le invito a dar click aquí para ver más de 500 fotografías de paisajes campestres. ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágen ...
  • Tributo a Land Rover I (verdaderos autos todoterre ...
    Si después dehaber visto nuestra colección titulada 'Tributo a Land Rover' desea ver más wallpapers de autos, haga usted click aquí. ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en ...
  • Fotografías de mujeres muy hermosas I (Chicas Lind ...
    Como un reconocimiento a la belleza femenina y como regalo especial para todos los caballeros, el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas se congratula al poder compartir 12 fotografías de mujeres muy hermosas. Esperamos que les gusten y en breve tendremos algo para las chicas lindas. ¡Beautiful Girls! ATENCIÓN ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Cuban Pesos: A Farmer’s Market Experience
    CLF’s Sr. Research Program Coordinators Jesse Kurtz-Nicholl and Sarah Rodman are visiting Cuba as part of a Natural Environmental Ecological Management delegation. Members of the group will see first hand large-scale Cuban infrastructure developed to support its 18-year-old, world-renowned sustainab ...
  • Conference Envisions a Very Different Future Harve ...
    Thirty years ago, Bruce Springsteen wrote the lyric “from small things, mama, big things one day come.” In a sense, that was part of the message of Fred Kirschenmann’s keynote address at the 12th annual conference of Future Harvest-Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture, although his addres ...
  • Greetings from Cuba!
    CLF’s Sr. Research Program Coordinators Jesse Kurtz-Nicholl and Sarah Rodman are visiting Cuba as part of a Natural Environmental Ecological Management delegation. Members of the group will see first hand large-scale Cuban infrastructure developed to support its 18-year-old, world-renowned sustainab ...
  • Are you learning your food habits at home? Doesn’ ...
    When I was a teacher, a common gripe among the staff was that the parent’s “weren’t doing their job” at home and how were “we,” the teachers supposed to make up for students whose parents didn’t read to them or encourage them to do their homework. This ongoing blame game ranged from discussions of r ...
  • New FDA Numbers Reveal Food Animals Consume Lion’s ...
    Antibiotics, one of world’s greatest medical discoveries, are slowly losing their effectiveness in fighting bacterial infections and the massive use of the drugs in food animals may be the biggest culprit. The growing threat of antibiotic resistance is largely due to the misuse and overuse of antibi ...

Norwegianity

  • Falling off the wagon
    Had five Hopslams last night, which is the equivalent of drinking ten regular beers. Not only are these super-hopped beers stronger than regular beer, they go down more easily. Which is a good thing. The wagon I fell off of had nothing to do with booze. Booze has never been a problem for me other [. ...
  • Fuck civility
    Recent political posts have been less expository and more an expression of deep discontent on my part. Had I known how many on the left would react angrily, as I did, to Rep. Giffords being shot, I would have ignored the story, so determined I was to shuck the chains of political nattering. I didn’t ...
  • Follow the money
    The L.A. Times, not the most progressive newspaper, takes a creative tack in supporting Tunisia’s revolution by citing George W. Bush. [Juan Cole on Tunisia's revolution] Yep, they’re still working on getting W. his Nobel Peace Prize for having kept the body count under one million. Hopefully they’l ...
  • Open for business
    Open for business doesn’t normally mean that you’re willing to drop your pants and spread your cheeks, but I think that would be close to what new Cheesehead guv Scott Walker is going for with his new “Wisconsin: Open For Business” signs that are going up all along Wisconsin’s state borders with Min ...
  • Brodkorb gets stribbed
    The Strib finally gets around to profiling one of the key political players in Minnesota, something they don’t do nearly often enough. [Michael] Brodkorb races through many days making statements as the state Republican Party’s deputy chair. Then, he rapidly turns to his state-paid job as Senate Rep ...

Public News Service

  • Keeping the Flu Bug Away: Tips for Arizona Residen ...
    Keeping the Flu Bug Away: Tips for Arizona Residents Phoenix, AZ – Worries over the spread of the H1N1 flu virus forced many Arizona parents to be extra cautious when it came to protecting their children last flu season. Experts say with flu season upon us again, parents should work to keep their ki ...
  • New FCC Rules on an Open Internet Called "Fake"
    New FCC Rules on an Open Internet Called "Fake" Washington, D.C. – The FCC approved new rules for an 'open Internet' last week, but many of the same groups that pushed for such regulations say what they got was a "fake" set of rules drafted with help from the companies they're meant to regulate. Com ...
  • Poll: Americans Ready to Deep Six the Death Penalt ...
    Poll: Americans Ready to Deep Six the Death Penalty? Phoenix, AZ – Arizona executed its first prisoner in three years in October. Now a recent poll by the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, D.C. shows growing support for alternatives to the death penalty. Executive director Richard Die ...
  • Keep it Simple, Santa – Tips for Holiday Sho ...
    Keep it Simple, Santa – Tips for Holiday Shopping for Tots Phoenix, AZ – There's only one more weekend left for holiday shopping, and if you're looking for gifts for preschoolers, experts say you can give your kids an advantage in later life, while at the same time saving money, by steering away fro ...
  • Beware Grinches After Your Charity Donations
    Beware Grinches After Your Charity Donations Phoenix, AZ — Tis' the season for charitable giving and legal experts say that means there are also scammers out there, so they advise taking a moment to check out any charity before you donate. Comments from attorney Beverly Salhanick (Sal-HAN-ick).

Center for Food Safety

  • Tell Sec. of Agriculture Vilsack to Adopt a Morato ...
    In a precedent-setting final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the planting of Monsanto’s genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) acknowledges for the first time that GE contamination of organic and conventionally grown crops presents a huge problem in the ...
  • Feds Yank GE Crops From All Northeast Refuges
    Settlement of Bombay Hook Suit Makes Southeast Refuges Next Legal Target    The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has agreed to stop planting genetically engineered (GE) crops on all its refuges within a dozen Northeastern states, according to a settlement agreement in a lawsuit brought by conservation a ...
  • In Wake Of Pending FDA Approval Of GE Salmon, Cali ...
    Bill Would Require Labels on All Genetically Engineered Salmon   Dissatisfied with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) current review of the first-ever proposed commercialization of genetically engineered (GE) salmon, today California State Assemblymember Jared Huffman introduced an Assemb ...
  • Obama to Sign Landmark Food Safety Legislation
    Center for Food safety Applauds New Powers for the FDA. Tester-Hagan Amendment a Win for Consumers and Small, Local Food Producers and Processors The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the passage of the Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) by the United States Congress.  The bill which passed ...
  • USDA Releases Final Environmental Impact Statement ...
    AGENCY MAKES NO DECISION ON APPROVAL OF THE ROUNDUP READY CROP CITING HARM TO ORGANIC INDUSTRY AND PROLIFERATION OF SUPERWEEDS CFS URGES AGENCY TO CONTINUE BAN ON POTENTIALLY HARMFUL CROP The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today the availability of the Final Environmental Impact Sta ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Tunisia between Democracy and Anarchy | Informed C ...
    Tunisia between Democracy and Anarchy | Informed Comment: "Tunisians woke Saturday morning to delirious joy at the advent of political liberty, but many worried about the simultaneous advent of social anarchy. The fall of the government of dictator Zine al-Abedin Ben Ali after 23 years left behind ...
  • Manifesting Tyranny Over Sacred Lands � Tibettruth
    Manifesting Tyranny Over Sacred Lands � Tibettruth: "What is it about colonial invaders and occupiers that drives them to target sites of profound spiritual importance, and subsequently desecrate them in the eyes of people, for whom such locations are of vital cultural and religious importance. It ...
  • Palestinian Pundit: From someone's facebook status
    Palestinian Pundit: From someone's facebook status: "Tunis was the first Arab country that abolished slavery in 1848. First Arab country that enacted a constitution in 1861. First Arab country that abolished polygamy in 1956. First Arab country that legalized abortion in 1973. First Arab country t ...
  • Nepal: Identity Politics and Federalism � Eurasia ...
    Nepal: Identity Politics and Federalism � Eurasia Review: Nepal : Identity Politics and Federalism , the latest report from the International Crisis Group, examines the political challenges to the establishment of a federal system and the risks if the process fails. The drafting of a constitu ...
  • Fidel Castro: An Atrocious Act
    Fidel Castro: An Atrocious Act By FIDEL CASTRO Sad news was broadcast this afternoon from the United States: Gabrielle Giffords, Democratic congresswoman for Arizona, was the victim of a criminal attempt while taking part at a political meeting at her electoral district in Tucson. On the other sid ...

Pensieve

  • Muddy Metaphor
    I went to the La Silla River this morning. A year ago It was once more of a swamp than a river, with brackish water and muddy banks. But, a few months ago, hurricane flooded it; many houses were filled with mud, and cars were swept away. But soon after the storm passed, the river [...] Related pos ...
  • Confused about the Amendments
    The constitutional amendments keep coming. It appears though that these still have to be ratified. The changes are only “initiatives”, and are not yet binding. The article I am using as a basis first said the “reform was approved”, but that it still needs to be “ratified” once the next legislature b ...
  • More Constitutional Amendments!?
    The Honduran Congress has introduced more constitutional amendments last night, apparently to reform the judicial branch of government. I hope the Supreme Court declares them unconstitutional quickly; I suspect the reforms are “punishment” for the Supreme Court not bending to Manuel Zelaya’s will in ...
  • Charter Cities in Honduras?
    Paul Romer, speaking at a TED conference, proposed the creation of “charter cities” in poor countries as a way to develop them. His prime example, China, with Hong Kong, and the new special cities that China has set up under more capitalist rules. Mr. Romer recently visited Tegucigalpa, and has some ...
  • Honduran Congress Dances to Snake Charmers
    Photo by supercake The Honduran government is under tremendous pressure from South American socialist nations led by Hugo Chavez, and the offended âgodâ, the Obama administration. The former want to force the congress to do away with constitution protections against autocratic governments. The latte ...

Green Times

  • Wave power generator
    Sea snake generates energy through wave power!   Scottish engineers found a solution to generate renewable (glossary/categories/energy/energy-solutions.html) energy through wave power (energy/hydro-energy.html), called the Pelamis system. Pelamis is the name for a huge, surface swimming, red se ...
  • Japanese bridge
      This picture shows us an ancient construction. It is important to protect our history and heritage (glossary/categories/wildlife/natural-world-heritage-site.html) for future generations. In addition historical buildings are often a habitat (directory/categories/Health%20 %20Beauty/ ) for a lot of ...
  • Frangipani flower
    Flowers always look better in their natural habitat (directory/categories/Health%20 %20Beauty) where they can follow their role as part of the local ecosystem (glossary/wildlife/ecosystem.html). For as tempting as it is, avoid picking up flowers in the wild, let them grow in their natural environmen ...
  • Why we need a National Network of Marine Parks and ...
    Australia enjoys one of the biggest and best marine environments in the world. However, our marine life is now at risk…
  • Grey Water
    1.Definition Grey water: Grey water, also spelled greywater or graywater, refers to any wash water that has been used in the house, except water from the toilets. . Grey water got its name from its cloudy appearance and from its status as being between fresh water (“white water”) and sewage wa ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Unauthorized attack kills 3 in Pakistan
    ShareThisUnauthorized attack kills 3 in Pakistan 23 Jan 2011 At least three people have been killed in an unauthorized US drone attack in the troubled northwestern Pakistan. The attack happened on Sunday morning after a similar unsanctioned attack in early hours of the same day, which claimed four l ...
  • Thousands demonstrate against U.S. drone strikes
    ShareThisThousands demonstrate against U.S. drone strikes 21 Jan 2011 Thousands of tribesmen marched in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region on Friday against the U.S. drone strikes, which they said killed innocent people, locals told Xinhua on phone. All markets and educational institutions we ...
  • Car bombs kill six in Iraq: ministry
    ShareThisCar bombs kill six in Iraq: ministry 23 Jan 2011�Car bombs killed six people and wounded 30 in and around Baghdad on Sunday, an Iraqi interior ministry official said. The attacks came after a spate of violence across Iraq last week killed 116 people. One car bomb on Sunday targetted a polic ...
  • Former Indicted Spy With Agenda Operates Private C ...
    ShareThisFormer Indicted Spy With Agenda Operates Private C.I.A. --'Eclipse Group' was funded by US military until May, then funded by private donors to pay agents to continue spying 23 Jan 2011 Duane R. Clarridge parted company with the Central Intelligence Agency more than two decades ago, but fro ...
  • Lawyer for Bradley Manning alleges prison mistreat ...
    ShareThisLawyer for Bradley Manning alleges prison mistreatment --United Nations special rapporteur on torture said submitted to State Department formal inquiry about Manning's treatment 21 Jan 2011 The lawyer for alleged government secrets leaker Bradley Manning is accusing military authorities of ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • When and where will Israel’s Tucson be?
    By Jesse Bacon By rights it should have been in 1995, when Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated. But the man who took over for him as Prime Minister after appearing at a rally where he was depicted as a Nazi is Prime Minister again. And Rabin’s party was just split into its final tiny segments. And the cu ...
  • Exclusive Interview: JNF demolishes village for th ...
    By Jesse Bacon Bulldozes from the Jewish National Fund demolished the Bedouin village for Al-Arakib for the ninth time yesterday and today. They also demolished the village’s olive groves the week of Tu Bshvat, which celebrates the flowering of trees so they can grow a forest named after a Fundament ...
  • More precious than oil: help rebuild destroyed cis ...
    From Ta’ayush’s appeal to help rebuild cisterns destroyed by the Israeli military. Dear Friends and Supporters, The situation of the Palestinian cave-dwellers in South Hebron Hills continues to be difficult. They suffer from permanent harassment carried out by the military and settlers. This y ...
  • Targetted professor stands up for human rights in ...
    By Jesse Bacon Neve Gordon, whose own academic freedom was threatened after his support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, writes in the Nation on the continued slide of human rights in Israel. This time at Ben Gurion Airport the site of much harassment of democracy activists as we ...
  • A year in jail not enough punishment for protestin ...
    Israel’s military went to court for the right to keep holding in jail Palestinian organizer Abdallah Abu Rahmah, the cousin of slain protester Jawaher Abu Rahmah. Happily for the Israeli Army, it’s a military court so they complied. Abdallah is now to serve an additional 2-3 months. Presumably they ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Quicksilver Messenger Service. Pride of Man
    Set to 9/11 WTC, Iraq and Afghanistan war video.
  • Gov. Brown’s California budget just more of the sa ...
    The budget proposes to offload state responsibilities like public safety and health services onto local governments, funding them for five years with money raised if voters approve the extension of tax hikes in June. This would include eliminating the California Division of Juvenile Justice. Local g ...
  • Bad craziness with passwords
    Continuing on with the password discussion from the last post… I use the highly reliable open source Password Safe to store passwords. It encrypts the passwords securely and the entire program installs into a folder with no updating of the registry, so it’s highly portable. Last night I upgraded to ...
  • Three word passwords are highly secure
    The always informative Baekdal explains how a password of three words (“peanut butter jelly”) is both highly secure and easy to remember. You can make the password impregnable by using special characters between the words and capitalizing (“peanut-Butter/jelly”.) If you use the same system for all p ...
  • Class in the US and world
    (Promoted from the comments. This is from DJ, who has lived in third world countries for extended periods of time) If we truly looked at the class structure of the economy, we would find that the vast majority of Americans are royalty. Our median income is more than 50 times the world median income. ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Cop Punches 58 Y/O WOMAN In The Face Repeatedly
  • Hurricane Erin was going to hit the North East US ...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZi0cmkOg6w
  • Deadline Live – January 21 2011
    News and commentary on this 21st day of January 2011 from ‘Our Narrator and Radio Gun’, Jack Blood. In hour 1 we get “This Day in History” breakdown. In addition a caller asks Jack his opinion on the latest Luke Rudkowski ‘WE ARE CHANGE’ interview of actor Mark Ruffalo. Also at the end of the [...]
  • LION TACOS!! – - – $8.75 each!!
    First there were LION BURGERS, now we have LION TACOS, this abuse as to stop! An Arizona restaurant known for serving tacos made from exotic meats is taking advanced orders for a particularly rare delicacy – LION MEAT !! Boca Tacos y Tequila, a Tucson Tex-Mex restaurant plans to put lion on its menu ...
  • The Violence of the Wings
    I don’t like to argue using the left/right paradigm. That is something, in my opinion, that the elite have created to divide us and divert our attention away from real issues. Recent events, however, warrant mention of the nature of these two divisive sides. There is at least a perception that the v ...

The Air Vent

  • Closed
    On the SOP thread we got into too heated a discussion.  I’ve had more than my fair share of the public lately and don’t know when tAV will be back. Of all the elements of the periodic table stupididium is the most abundant.  The idiots pushed me over  the edge tonight.   I’ve had well [...]
  • What Evidence for “Unprecedented Warming&#82 ...
    This is a new paper which takes a look at the statistical uncertainty of the long term warming trends by Pat Frank.  He looks at the uncertainty of the data including that created by non-stationary errors and comes to the reasonable conclusion that global trends for the length of the temp record are ...
  • SOP
    Today someone made a comment on the Cuccinelli vs Dr. Man thing which has me stirred up a bit.  I fully understand that some scientists may have the opinion that you don’t want Academics worrying about politics and there is some kind of problem with legal requests for emails.  What unfortunately h ...
  • Above the Law
    Most will notice that I’ve not been blogging this week. There really isn’t any time but Cuccinelli is now being given a new hurdle to uncover Mann’s emails. Virginia senators are considering changing law to prevent Mann’s private emails from being read.  First the university claims they don’t exist ...
  • A Superfund Story
    If you want to read the regs start with CERCLA, then SARA. After reading the first few pages you will probably want to come back here to read this because you will realize I would have to be practically brain dead to be as boring as reading regs. Superfund was set up with good intentions. [...]

Focal Point

  • Steve Jobs Bought Human Liver Like Foie Gras
    Will Saletan accuses Apple CEO Steve Jobs of "gaming the system" to get a liver transplant: Jobs lives in Northern California, but he got his liver in Tennessee. Why? Different parts of the country have different waiting lists, and the wait in Northern California was three times longer than the ...
  • Commodities Trader Arrested for Threatening to Kil ...
    Former New York commodities trader Vincent McCrudden was charged in federal court this week with threatening to kill 47 current and former federal regulators from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and other agencies. McCrudden ...Rea ...
  • It Gets Better, But Probably Not With a Boob Job
    Amanda of Pandagon points to a disturbing ABC News story about teens getting plastic surgery in a bid to escape bullying or, and/or to recover from the psychological scars of bullying. We meet Erica, who was mercilessly teased about her nose, became so distraught that she started skipping ...
  • Sarah Palin, Blood Libel, and Death Panels
    Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin claims she is the victim of "blood libel," a reference to the anti-Semitic claim that Jews sacrifice Christian children. A Jewish congresswoman got a bullet through her brain, but Sarah Palin is casting herself as the victim because some people have criticized her ...
  • SC Armory Embosses Rep. Joe Wilson's "You Lie" on ...
    The a South Carolina gun company is selling a special commemorative AR-15 lower embossed with the phrase "You Lie," as a tribute to Rep. Joe Wilson (R)'s famous outburst during President Obama's health care speech in 2009. Corey Hutchins of Free Times snagged some promotional copy and screen caps ...

Inside Facebook

  • Ecwid Ecommerce App Lets Businesses Sell on the We ...
    Facebook Pages aren’t just for communicating. Thanks to tab applications, they can serve as ecommerce storefronts as well. Russian ecommerce widget startup Ecwid allows businesses to set up a single store that can be embedded on Facebook Pages, blogs, websites, and mobile sites. All Pages should co ...
  • Highlights This Week from the Inside Network Job B ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at NaturalMotion, Meteor Games, King of the Web, Speeddate, and Mdot ...
  • Facebook Roundup: Goldman Sachs, Security, HTML5, ...
    Facebook Accused of Negligent Security – Sophos security firm and BitDefender have both taken Facebook to task for not providing adequate security and protecting user privacy. Most recently Sophos found that 40% of social network users were sent malware, up from the year before — Facebook’s rebuttal ...
  • Facebook Temporarily Disables Suggest to Friend Op ...
    Due to a bug that was causing the multi-friend selector to not load properly, Facebook has temporarily removed the “Suggest to Friends” option from Pages. Rather than allow users to encounter the error, Facebook removed the feature’s link from Pages until it can fix the bug. Admins can still see th ...
  • Facebook Turns Down Additional $500 Million and Ca ...
    After three weeks of fervent media speculation, Facebook has come forward to confirm a $1.5 billion financing round through Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Russia’s Digital Sky Technologies. The round, which valued Facebook at $50 billion, was done in two parts. The first part was a direct investment o ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • London's Foreign Office might as well relocate to ...
    Stuart Littlewood takes a close look at the subtefuge, obfuscations and double talk of British Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt, a card-carrying Israeli stooge who on a recent visit to occupied Palestine deceitfully professed his commitment to justice in the Holy Land while pledging to stand by ...
  • Silencing the media in America
    Paul J. Balles views the Zionist lobby's stranglehold over the mainstream media in the United States which has succeeded in bullying, threatening or bribing journalists into silence over Israel's crimes.
  • Why Obama's "new thinking" initiative on Middle Ea ...
    Lawrence Davidson says an Obama initiative to inject "new" thinking into the Palestinian-Israeli "peace process" is doomed to fail because Obama has judged it safer to "resurrect the dead" in the form of failed, pro-Israel advisers of previous administrations than to opt for genuinely new thinking, ...
  • Why are UK and USA in Afghanistan?
    Tim Coles argues that underlying the Anglo-American invasion and occupation of Afghanistan is the desire to acquire and secure energy sources in Central Asia and Iran as part of the strategy of full spectrum dominance.
  • Israeli Zionist left writes its own obituary
    Jonathan Cook argues that the Israeli Labour Party’s collapse may "free up the political landscape for a real left to emerge in Israel, one less tied to the onerous legacy of Labour Zionism and prepared to collaborate creatively with the Palestinian national movements".

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The Dream Team: Paul-Nader?
    Maybe there is hope after all… Isn’t it good to see a joint focus on macro issues and real diseases? Even better, to see micro differences and lame sideshows put aside for the badly needed greater good? What do ‘you’ think? This site depends exclusively on readers’ support. Please help us continu ...
  • Podcast Show #37
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Corey Pein Corey Pein recounts the creation of the recently launched groundbreaking site warisbusiness.com, a nonpartisan site covering military contracting, the global arms trade and the lobby, and how he began the project with two assumptions: The first- a lot of peopl ...
  • Additional Omitted Points in CIA-Gulen coverage & ...
    Crucial Details Missing in the MSM Coverage of the Recent Intel Chief’s Exposé Last week I wrote about the Washington Post’s incomplete and one-sided coverage of the recently published memoir by former Turkish Intelligence Chief Osman Nuri Gundes exposing CIA Operations via an Islamic Group in Centr ...
  • Weekly Round Up for January 9
    Obama’s Whistleblower-Hunt, ‘Rent-A-Generals’ Industry, A Great Example of Intentionally Awful Journalism, One-Tip-Based Terror Watch List & More! A belated happy new year to all our readers and friends here at Boiling Frogs Post. As you can tell I am just coming up for air. The holiday season happe ...
  • The “Exceptionally “Redacted 9/11 Commission Inter ...
    Newly Released 9/11 Commission Files at Cryptome.Org Last week John Young’s information site Cryptome.Org began publishing documents related to the interviews conducted by the 9/11 Commission which were released for the first time. On January 3, Cryptome posted the 9/11 Commission’s report on my int ...

Afro Spear

  • Jazzuloo: inner rhythms of the jazz melodies in my ...
    It’s time to return to blogging from a more personal perspective on a consistent basis, so I have a new blog home: Jazzuloo. It won’t be AfroSpear-lite, so there will be little cross-posting. Click on the image below and come visit from time to time.
  • “Things fall apart in Tanzania” by Nkw ...
    What transpired in Tanzania on 5th January tells it all. The “Peace-and-tranquillity” mantra that rulers have always sold is no more. It was reported that three people were killed by police when they were quashing a peaceful demonstration orchestrated by Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (CHADEMA) i ...
  • Drapetomania…Catch it if you Can!
    “Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race,” by Dr. Cartwright DRAPETOMANIA, OR THE DISEASE CAUSING NEGROES TO RUN AWAY. It is unknown to our medical authorities, although its diagnostic symptom, the absconding from service, is well known to our planters and overseers… In noticing a disease not h ...
  • Independent Woman? Really?
    I was at brother Spencer’s blog, The Warrior Poet, reading his Spencerism’s dated January 19, 2011.  He’s a Christian man who blogs about his opinion on a number of interesting subjects.  His post on Women and Independence was quite interesting to me and I wanted to share what he had to say about ...
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Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

  • Secretariat the Horse, the Movie
    To be witness to history from afar is one thing, to be up close is another, and to have the wisdom to know the difference is the icing on the cake, of course, I am referring to great moments in history, of excelling in any endeavor, being human, or otherwise, of the bright spots and not of man’s dar ...
  • I understand and now you do, too!
    Why do they hate us? Is it really that hard to understand? 1st collector for I understand and now you do, too!Follow my videos on vodpod
  • I understand, now you do too!
    A lot of people ask the question, why do they hate us so? This trailer from a new movie explains it in simple terms, it is a sociologist outlining the thinking that has emerge around the world in their views of the Empire. As with every Empire that has ever existed, conquered people will never [...]
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    Join our community page by CLICKING HERE, a social networking page of like minded individuals! Our page is intended to bring people together in an environment of less advertisement with a hope of sorting through propaganda in life and discovering the truth.

Unsuitable Blog

  • Sudden Oak Death – It’s News Because I ...
    It’s commonly called Sudden Oak Death, so why the picture of a stand of larch trees? That’s a question well worth asking, but a far more important question is: why has Phytophthora ramorum, the name of the fungus responsible, become such big news in the UK? Ever since P. ramorum started blowing its ...
  • Mother Nature Network: A Hypocritical Crock Of Shi ...
    I make no apologies for the title of this post: I have just spent a short while reading the biographies of the Mother Nature Network Team, and have ended up in the kind of moral position that Immanuel Kant might have struggled with if he had had the internet to contend with in his philosophical [... ...
  • The Unsuitablog’s Worst of 2010
    Taking a cue from all the awards and “looking back on”s going on at the moment, it seems like just the right time to pick the very worst ethical hypocrites of 2010. Taking the year as a whole, there is a huge selection to choose from even when just looking at the pages of The [...]
  • Undermining in 2010: How Did I Do?
    There is something very human in looking back over a specific period of time and reflecting on what you have achieved, failed in or could just have done a bit better. It’s part of the learning process that civilization discourages, because if we really did look back and reflect upon what really matt ...
  • EnviroLeaks : Now Live
    EnviroLeaks is a repository of leaked information that fills the gap between what the mainstream media allow us to know about the environmentally destructive behaviour of the industrial system, and the often highly classified and largely political information from groups such as WikiLeaks. EnviroLea ...

Subalternate Reality

  • All That Happens In The Middle East Can’t Be ...
    Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order.  âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on the ...
  • Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
    Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…”  Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constructi ...
  • Wealthy Far More Likely To Default On Mortgages
    crossposted at Political Correction For much of the past two years, Congressional Republicans have wasted few opportunities to blame poor and working class Americans for the financial meltdown and the subsequent recession. They’ve argued that through well-intentioned government initiatives, includ ...
  • GOP House Candidate: Mosque Near Ground Zero Is A ...
    Conservative activists and the Muslim-baiters among them are furious about a proposed Islamic community center to be built near Ground Zero.  The debate has become entirely unhinged and some of the more hateful folks are using the controversy as a rallying cry to oppose the construction of all futur ...
  • Ex-Muslim Ergun Caner Is A Fraud
    Ergun Caner is one of the most prominent figures in the evangelical movement. He is also one of the most deceptive. A self-professed Muslim convert to Christianity, Caner plays an important, and arguably dangerous, role in the community. After the 9/11 attacks, when many Americans were searching for ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Turning the iPad into an Open, Offline Mapping Pla ...
    We've talked here before about TileMill, an open source tool for creating your own custom map tiles (the individual pieces that make up a full map of a city, country, and so on). But what sorts of things can you do with these map tiles? One area we wanted to explore was using them on Apple's latest ...
  • Dotspotting Expands to Track Homicides, Food Vendo ...
    Since my last post, we've been busily working on extending the functionality of Dotspotting, the first project in our larger Citytracking project aimed at helping people tell stories about cities. It's still, as my colleague Aaron puts it, very much in a "super alpha-beta-disco-ball" state -- which ...
  • How Can We 'Gamify' the News Experience?
    One of the biggest emerging conversations over the past year in Silicon Valley is around "gamification." Simply put, this is the idea of applying game mechanics, particularly those found in videogames, to all sorts of non-game experiences. After following this conversation for many months, I've c ...
  • LocalWiki: Laying the Groundwork
    A few of you have been wondering what we've been up to since our Kickstarter pledge drive ended, so we want to give you a quick update on our Knight-funded project, LocalWiki. For those of you who are more technically inclined, we hope to also provide an insight into these early stages of our proces ...
  • NPR's Project Argo Creates National Content at the ...
    Jason and the Argonauts were the mythological Greek heroes who set off on a quest for the Golden Fleece. Like its namesake, NPR's Project Argo is off on another noble quest -- to strengthen local journalism, particularly on digital platforms. Project Argo is a partnership between NPR and member sta ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Digital Divide - Will Digital Technology Reduc ...
    Two years ago, the Ethio American Health Center opened its doors in the nation’s capital, promising the country’s largest community of Ethiopian immigrants a place where doctors spoke their language and understood their culture. Many of the community’s poorest quickly flocked to the center. But for ...
  • The Edge on Terror - Hezbollah’s War on Internatio ...
    On January 12, Hezbollah brought down Lebanon’s democratic government. The group withdrew its ministers from the cabinet, crumbling the unity government in an impeccably-timed constitutional coup only a few hours before prime minister Saad Hariri was to meet President Obama in Washington.The message ...
  • Economic Recovery on Edge - Looking Forwards—and B ...
    We are two weeks into 2011, but it’s not simply a new year. The end of 2010 marked the passing of the first decade of this new century. It’s only fitting we look back and look for lessons learned.There’s no question this nation and the world were rocked early on. September 11 caused many to question ...
  • Sign Language Film’s Selection a Good Start
    The news about “The Preservation of the Sign Language,” the film produced by the National Association of the Deaf under George Veditz being included in the National Film Registry is very significant not only because it is among a limited number of films selected. It is among some of the most signifi ...
  • Border War - Mexico's President Calderon Tries to ...
    In its second-to-last year in office, the administration of Mexican President Felipe Calderon is on a public relations offensive to counter a ceaseless barrage of criticism over the conduct and progress of the so-called drug war. In response, Calderon administration officials-echoed by Washington-ar ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • One Planet, Too Many People?
    By Dr. Tim Fox A groundbreaking Population report by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) has revealed the world is hurtling towards population overload placing billions at risk of hunger, thirst and slum conditions
  • Population Redux
    By Paul ChefurkaNationalTotal Fertility Rate (TFR) correlates relatively poorly with GDP/capita (C = 0.47), reasonably well with life expectancy (C = 0.77) and literacy rate (C = 0.78), but very well with HDI (C = 0.89). This implies that if we want to maximize the reduction of TFR we need to conc ...
  • The Interactive Ecological Predicament
    By Paul Chefurka Other effects that may appear to be the result of overpopulation such as resource shortages, energy shortages and industrial pollution are largely the result of human activity. In fact, the majority of the damage we are doing to the planet is the result of our activity and not our ...
  • Beat Your Daisy Cutters Into Daisies
    By Mickey Z. Green-spirited seed bombs and mean-spirited Daisy Cutters. Take a wild guess which one is illegal here in the land of the free. Yep, seed bombing could get you arrested or sued, but could also result in real daisies
  • Death And Birth In Gaza: A Story Of A Shepherd
    By Mahmoud El-Yousseph Two days before last Christmas, Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian shepherd in the back and injured two others. A 14 year old suffered a serious head injury and another 19 year old was injured in his hand. The 22 year old Palestinian shepherd, Salamah Abu Hashishs wife ga ...

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. Che ...
  • Sharing the writing of another Stieber
    My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing our [ ...
  • Article in FOR
    The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out: http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement   Rhetoric and Realit ...
  • Slate Interview: My Country Right or Wrong: Consci ...
    Interview I did with a fascinating writer for SLATE whose special interest is on transformation and how people come to admit they’re wrong:   Address to article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/12/16/my-country-right-or-wrong-conscientious-objector-josh-stieber-on-being-w ...
  • Dangerous Activity Thwarted in Afghanistan!

Yid With Lid

  • Olbermann Gone. Thank You Comcast
    In a way I am disappointed, now I will never be able to enjoy the supreme honor for a conservative blogger, being named one of Keith Olbermann's Worst Person in The World. I believe Pamela Geller got the honor more than once, Ed Morrissey was named best person of the world and we "ragged on him" inc ...
  • Behind the Self-Destruction of Israel's Labor Part ...
    By Barry Rubin A pivotal moment in Israeli political history. The Labor Party, the founding political organization of the state, ruler of the country for its first�29 years,�and perennial member of government coalitions has splintered like an undercooked felafel, that is, very messily. ...
  • Dinners With The Enemy, Politicians With Tacky Mus ...
    Is Donald Trump going to run for president?� Well if he runs and wins I would love to be a fly on the wall during his first meeting with the Chinese.� Yesterday he went on a rant about Obama's appeasement of China that was all bravado and absolutely no diplomacy.� You can see the video linked to be ...
  • Homeland Security Fails Again: GAO Reports A Dange ...
    While many American passengers boarding Airplanes are being forced to make a choice between full body X-ray or getting their junk rubbed, foreign seafarers are basically getting "carte blanche" to anonymously enter the country. According to the report the Customs and Border Protection offic ...
  • Must Watch: Jon Stewart Eviscerates Congressman St ...
    While politically, I rarely agree with the Daily Show's John Stewart, from the beginning of this "blame the conservatives for Tucson movement" he has been on the correct side, saying that Loughner went on his shooting rampage because he was a few fries short of a happy meal, not because of anyone's ...

The Real Agenda

  • Working for them: Obama takes in another Corporati ...
    The Administration that promised to end corporate management of the government is now fully loaded with Wall Street and corporation insiders to manage what “The Man” cannot. NationalJournal.com President Obama today will name General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt chairman of the new Council on Jobs and C ...
  • The Downfall of Science and the Rise of Intellectu ...
    By Mike Adams The very reputation of so-called “science” has been irreparably damaged by the invocation of the term “science” by GMO lackeys, pesticide pushers, mercury advocates and fluoride poisoners who all claim to have science on their side. It seems that every toxin, contamination and chemical ...
  • 26 States Join Suit Against Obamacare
    Virginia Federal Judge had ruled unconstitutional the mandate to purchase health insurance. Fox News.com Six more states joined a lawsuit in Florida against President Obama’s health care overhaul on Tuesday, meaning more than half of the country is challenging the law. The announcement was made as H ...
  • No Record exists of Obama’s Birth in the U.S ...
    Hawaii governor says he cannot find birth certificate, only a written note supported by a newspaper ad. Mail Online Pressure was mounting on Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie today amid increasing confusion over whether President Obama was born there. Abercrombie said on Tuesday that an investigation ...
  • U.S. House GOP: Cut $12.5 Million from IPCC
    Plan will also cut financing for the International Fund for Ireland ($17 million annual savings) and Economic Assistance to Egypt for $250 million, but will not make cuts to Defense or Homeland Security.  So the wars will continue and so will the attacks on citizens’ rights. By Paul Bedard USNews M ...

Wind Watch

  • Windfarm would pose threat to rare bird, warns exp ...
    One of the UK�s rarest birds could be in jeopardy if a major windfarm development in a picturesque part of Inverness-shire is given the go-ahead, a public meeting has heard. About 150 people attended a meeting at Kiltarlity Village Hall to discuss proposals for a 28-turbine windfarm on land between ...
  • Customers face huge bill for wind farms that don&# ...
    The failure of Britain�s wind farms to produce electricity in the extreme cold will cost billions of pounds, create an economic crisis and lead to blackouts, leading industrialists have warned. To cover up the ineffectiveness of wind farms the Government will be forced to build emergency back-up pow ...
  • Wind turbines divide Dutch
    Residents of a small fishing village in The Netherlands are protesting a plan for building wind turbines that they believe would radically change the look of the community. The Dutch government has given permission for building 86 wind turbines on towers near the scenic village of Urk that would con ...
  • Marin wind power test site gets blowback from envi ...
    The proposal was for two thin towers, 197 feet tall and 10 inches in diameter at their base, on two remote west Marin ridgelines, a mile and a half apart and northeast of Dillon Beach. With meteorological testing gear, digital transmitters and a small solar panel mounted to each tower, the temporary ...
  • Noise complaints draw opposition to wind farms
    Mike Eaton and his wife live in northeastern Oregon for the peace and quiet. But ever since wind turbines arrived on the ridge above their home two years ago, the Eatons� slice of heaven has been a nightmare. �It makes me seasick and nauseous,� said Eaton, who carries a cane. �I take medication for ...

Not My Tribe

  • Iran had ‘preconditions’ for nuclear t ...
    Actually Baroness Ashton and other “diplomats” said they were “disappointed”. Baroness Ashton led a delegation from France, Germany, Russia, the UK, US and China, at the two-day talks. The international team had proposed a new version of a plan to keep Iranian enrichment within civilian-grade levels ...
  • The dude has cast iron balls… or a corporate ...
    If it’s the nutsack or the sponsor, it’s a big one. Baby Doc Duvalier in Haiti called for national reconciliation, said he only came back to help Haiti How very noble, but a better help would be for him to send back the money he stole, YEARS AGO, taken the entire responsibility for Haiti’s national ...
  • Questions for Ed and Herb Weinberg to ask Lisa Cze ...
    Herb Weinberg is a retired ABC News reporter. A link to Ed and Herb teleconferencing. Herb suggests taking a list of questions to ask, here’s a few of MINE:   Yeah, actually, there’s a cop shop right there at the park. Did she KNOW that the man swearing at the Uncle Wilber fountain was actually [... ...
  • Opposing war is not a crime: stop FBI suppression ...
    COLORADO SPRINGS – JANUARY 25 – Protest the recent FBI raids and the DOJ grand jury subpoenas aimed at intimidating members of antiwar and Palestinian rights groups. Join Coloradans For Peace and compatriots beneath the windows of the FBI field office, located in the Plaza of the Rockies downtown, t ...
  • Berlusconi gets another church thrown at him&#8230 ...
    Only this time it’s the actual Pope getting in his face, rather than a statue of a church. About having relations with a teen prostitute. Not looking good for Silvio. Seems a bit snotty to say that about him, but there’s something about His Merciless Majesty that just doesn’t inspire kind thoughts. ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Jim Corr & Lord Monckton on Irish TV
    Some great info about 9/11 from Jim Corr, including the nanothermite. He knows his stuff. Lord Monckton focused solely on the issue of climate sensitivity, which is the most important question in the climate change debate: How much does CO2 affect temperature? The two debunkers in the audience we ...
  • 'Terror' in My Home Town
    The Shires re-opens after bomb squad blow suspect package up Shoppers and staff have been allowed back into The Shires shopping centre in Trowbridge after bomb disposal experts blew up an abandoned suitcase shortly before 3.30pm today. The controlled explosion was initiated by the Royal Logistics ...
  • Mike Adams on the invocation of 'Science' by defen ...
    The downfall of science and the rise of intellectual tyranny (NaturalNews) The very reputation of so-called "science" has been irreparably damaged by the invocation of the term "science" by GMO lackeys, pesticide pushers, mercury advocates and fluoride poisoners who all claim to have science on thei ...
  • NFL's Mark Stepnoski & Tony Szamboti: Buildingwhat ...
    Visit: BuildingWhat.org Related Info: Building What? is up... Thank You Mr Curley: "Debunker" PROMOTES the "Building What?" Campaign & Pushes Discredited Material (again) to Discredit Himself Breaking News: Hell Freezes Over! Geraldo Should Be Impressed by 1300 Architects and Engineers ...
  • The Year in Duh-Bunking: March
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog has published the March installment of his "Year In Troof" series. Faith summed up the major point he is raising quite well on this blog back on March 6th, stating: Out of the thousands of people who believe that we were fed a load of bull from the governme ...

Fooducate

  • Starbucks: Super Size & Other News
    Lots of things happening at Starbucks lately. 1. The company is revamping its logo. after several decades of text plus mermaid, the new logo is all graphics. 2. In response to challenges from McDonald’s and other, a new super-size TRENTA will be introduced this May for select cold beverages. Why go ...
  • How Can 100% Nectar Contain Added Water and Sugars ...
    Here’s an email (and picture) we got from Tracy: A couple of months ago I bought an attractive two liter of Jumex Mango Juice for my boys.  It said “100% Nectar”!  Well, it was anything but.  I looked at the label when I got home and found it was juice concentrates, high fructose corn syrup, [... ...
  • Wal-Mart’s Nutrition Initiative: Smoke ‘n Mirrors ...
    140 Million people shop at Wal-mart every week. It is the largest grocery chain in the US, with almost 30% of sales, according to some sources. 10% of PepsiCo’s products are sold at Wal-Mart, and 16% of Kraft’s. That’s why when Wal-Mart announces a new Nutrition Initiative everybody listens. And tha ...
  • Food Supplements and Childhood Obesity
    This is a guest post by pediatrician and childhood obesity expert Robert A. Pretlow. There actually are products, similar to baby formula, for children who have outgrown babyhood.  And not just hospitalized kids on nasogastric tube feedings, or third-world kids on emergency relief aid, but healthy, ...
  • Health Claims and Other Assorted Jokes
    The GAO – Government Accountability Office – (yes, there is such a thing) issued a report late last week, telling the FDA it needs to do a better job protecting consumers from misleading health claims on products. According to the GAO, the FDA’s efforts to protect consumers from false or misleading ...

Traffikd

  • Internet Marketing and Social Media Degree Program ...
    Guest post by Brian Jenkins Over a billion and a half people use the Internet, and this has created a plethora of opportunities for talented Internet marketers. Specialized knowledge in Internet marketing and social media is vital for many businesses. Yes, there are successful, self-taught Internet ...
  • How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blogs i ...
    To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.
  • Blogging Event Ideas to Spice Up Your Blog
    If you've ever gone to an industry conference, film festival, grand opening, or author signing, then you can appreciate the energy such events can create. Industry conferences gather together the best and brightest minds in order to share ideas and plan for the future. Film festivals celebrate great ...
  • Increasing Your Blog’s Interactivity: 10 Tips for ...
    Guest post by Alexis Bonari Success in attracting and retaining readers is often influenced by a blog’s level of interactivity. Many readers are more active than passive and want to feel like they have a role in affecting a blog’s content, design, structure, and overall ongoing conversation. Posts ...
  • 5 Facebook Apps That Really Make Money
    Guest post by Alexis Bonari If you aren't on Facebook by now, you are probably the only one who isn't. My grandmother has a Facebook page and anyone who can type, is able to start their own page with no problem. Most everyone uses Facebook as a social meeting place, but did you know that you coul ...

Survival International

  • Survival protestors target international tourism f ...
    Demonstrators protest against tourism to Botswana at FITUR. © Iñaki Luis/Survival Visitors to the international tourism fair in Madrid were today met with Survival protestors calling for a boycott of tourism to Botswana. The protestors, angry at the Botswana governmentâs treatment of the Ka ...
  • India Supreme Court judge condemns 'historic injus ...
    Bhil girl, India. The Supreme Court has condemned the 'terrible oppression and atrocities' of India's tribal people. © Sunil Janah/Survival Two of Indiaâs Supreme Court judges have passed a groundbreaking judgement recognising Indiaâs tribal people as the nationâs âoriginal inhabitantsâ and st ...
  • Wikileaks: US embassy condemned eviction of Kalaha ...
    The Bushmen of the CKGR were largely self-sufficient before the government evicted them. © Stephen Corry/Survival The US Ambassador to Botswana strongly condemned the government’s forced eviction of the Kalahari Bushmen, according to secret US embassy cables released today. Ambassador Joseph H ...
  • Torture video soldiers charged only with ‘disobeyi ...
    The torture footage caused widespread anger and revulsion. © Survival Three soldiers who were captured on video torturing two Papuan villagers last May are being tried in a military court. But despite the beatings and torture shown in the video, the soldiers have only been charged with âfailin ...
  • Bushmen back in court over water rights
    Bushman child, CKGR, Botswana 2004 © 2004 Stephen Corry/Survival The Kalahari Bushmen pleaded for the right to water in Botswana’s Court of Appeal on Monday. A panel of five judges heard the case, and are expected to deliver their verdict on 27th or 31st January. The Bushmen won the right to ...

Greg Palast

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • You now have a year to a year and a half at most b ...
    The RNC is asking for 2.5 trillion in spending cuts over 10 years. Assume Obama and Dems split the difference (remember, Obama wanted a freeze already, anyway).  1.25 trillion. The effects of that on the US economy, such as it is, will be catastrophic. If you can work right now, do.  Earn as much mo ...
  • Stop treating monsters as reasonable people
    Over the last few years, and in particular in the last couple, I’ve noticed something about myself: I’ve become a lot more rude in my political dealings, including with many people I used to consider allies.  At first this worried me a bit, because I couldn’t quite pin down why, beyond the fact tha ...
  • Stop treating monsters as reasonable people
    Over the last few years, and in particular in the last couple, I’ve noticed something about myself: I’ve become a lot more rude in my political dealings, including with many people I used to consider allies.  At first this worried me a bit, because I couldn’t quite pin down why, beyond the fact tha ...
  • Dear Software Writers
    Please don’t set your program to auto-update my drivers without telling me.  Because, no, your newer drivers are not always better, in fact they often break something, which is why I NEVER auto-update drivers (or much of anything else). Thanks for wasting a good six hours of my life fixing your scr ...
  • Dear Software Writers
    Please don’t set your program to auto-update my drivers without telling me.  Because, no, your newer drivers are not always better, in fact they often break something, which is why I NEVER auto-update drivers (or much of anything else). Thanks for wasting a good six hours of my life fixing your scr ...

Age of Autism

  • Age of Autism Donation Thank You Gift
    We've updated our thank you gift for donating to Age of Autism. When you donate, if you will kindly give us your mailing address in the PayPal "info" area, we'll send you this indoor/outdoor 4 x 6" magnet for your...
  • The Brother Code
    By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. "Hey, what do you think about all the news on Wakefield?" my brother asked over the phone. He had called me. This was a rare occurence. Usually I call him. He's my older brother, just a...
  • Cryshame Statement and a Thank You from Dr. Wakefi ...
    From CryShame.org: In view of the latest attacks by Brian Deer on the reputations of Professor John Walker-Smith and Dr Andrew Wakefield published in the British Medical Journal, CryShame is stating its continuing support for these doctors who took seriously...
  • Mothering Magazine: An Interview with Dr. Andrew W ...
    Mothering Editor and Publisher Peggy O'Mara interviews Dr. Andrew Wakefield; coauthor of a 1998 study that suggested a link between Crohn's Disease and the Measles Mumps Rubella (MMR) vaccine in some children. He has been accused of incorrectly linking the...
  • Autism Group TACA Appoints New CEO Janine Ingram
    Our New Chief Executive Office Announcement After 10 years of hard work and extreme growth, I am thrilled to bring Janine Ingram on board as CEO to help lead TACA through the next decade. The next stages of growth for...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Mexico to become first country to use iris scans o ...
    Telegraph – The documents, which will include the eye’s image as well as fingerprints, a photo and signature, will be 99 per cent reliable, according to Felipe Zamora, who is responsible for legal affairs at the Mexican interior ministry. “The legal, technical and financial conditions are ready to s ...
  • Scientists crack genetic code for form of pancreat ...
    PhysOrg.com – Scientists at Johns Hopkins have deciphered the genetic code for a type of pancreatic cancer, called neuroendocrine or islet cell tumors. The work, described online in the Jan. 20 issue of Science Express, shows that patients whose tumors have certain coding “mistakes” live twice as lo ...
  • ‘Prince of Mercenaries’ who wreaked ha ...
    The Independent – Erik Prince, the American founder of the private security firm Blackwater Worldwide, has cropped up at the centre of a controversial scheme to establish a new mercenary force to crack down on piracy and terrorism in the war-torn East African country of Somalia. The project, which e ...
  • Bank of America posts heavy losses
    AFP – Bank of America, the biggest US bank, reported Friday a net loss of $1.2 billion for the fourth quarter, citing falling revenue and a hefty writedown on its home-loan business. The loss was the second consecutive quarterly setback for the government-rescued bank, after a $7.3 billion loss in t ...
  • Karzai backs down in dispute with Afghan lawmakers
    AP — Under heavy pressure from Afghan lawmakers and Western diplomats, President Hamid Karzai agreed on Saturday to convene the newly elected parliament, ending a political standoff that threatened to spark a constitutional crisis. After hours of tense discussions at the presidential palace, Karzai ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Nevada's wild mustangs: Officials reject philanthr ...
    A proposal from the wife of Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens to create a sanctuary in Nevada for wild horses removed from public rangeland around the West has been rejected, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management said Friday. Madeleine Pickens'...
  • Bloom Energy announces new fuel cell financing opt ...
    Bloom Energy on Thursday announced a new financing program that cuts out the upfront cost of purchasing, installing and maintaining one of the company’s fuel cells and instead allows customers to buy only the clean electricity produced. Chief Executive K.R....
  • Climate change assumption could need tinkering, st ...
    “These datasets provide us with an unprecedented view” of the large-scale changes in plant distribution that have occurred the past 75 years in California, said co-author Solomon Dobrowski, an assistant forest management professor at the University of Montana.
  • Parking space management: Remove a spot, reduce gl ...
    "Parking management is a critical and often overlooked tool for achieving a variety of social goals," according to a new study released Wednesday by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy in New York. The study cited improved air quality,...
  • Time to refuse those unwanted, unrecycled phone bo ...
    Just 30% of Americans use white pages phone books to look up telephone numbers and addresses. Even fewer Americans (22%) recycle them, according to a study released Wednesday. "If so few people use the phone book and recycle the phone...

water.org

  • Matt Damon recognized for Water.org (MTV)
    Matt Damon Recognized At Critics’ Choice Awards For Water.org Charity (MTV) – Damon was given the fourth annual Joel Siegel Award for Service to the Community. While Kimmel provided comic relief, joking that the Oscar winner is “the greatest guy in the world,” the actor received serious accolades fo ...
  • Matt Damon receives Joel Siegel Award (VH1)
    Joel Siegel Award – Matt Damon (VH1) – Video of Matt Damon receiving the Joel Siegel Critics Choice Movie Award. Video Link. Critics’ Choice |Movie Awards |Critics’ Choice Video |Celebrity News
  • Matt Damon, Gary White talk to Katie Couric (Glamo ...
    Matt Damon Talks to Katie Couric About His Clean Water Crusade (Glamour) – He may be an ex-Sexiest Man Alive, but Matt Damon and his Water.org partner Gary White, are on a crusade: clean drinking water everywhere. Glamour columnist Katie Couric learns why water is a womenâs issue. When Matt gets inv ...
  • Bill Clinton keynote speaker for Hult Challenge (P ...
    President Bill Clinton to Deliver Keynote at Hult International Business School’s 2nd Annual Global Case Challenge (PR Newswire) BOSTON – Hult International Business School announced today that President Clinton will serve as this year’s keynote speaker and personally present awards to the winning t ...
  • Lowe’s Foundation donating $1M to 4 charitie ...
    Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation Donating a Total of $1 Million to Four Environmental Charities through Online Campaign – Each charity will receive $100,000; Consumers will help decide how remaining $600,000 is divided (Business Wire) MOORESVILLE, N.C. â Loweâs and the Loweâs Charitable ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Ex-Jerusalem pol asks the US to intervene to keep ...
    Israel seems intent on doing all it can, while it can, to make any future Palestinian state totally non-viable, much like the South African attempt at controllable Bantustans or homelands.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • If Obama saw what white phosphorus did to the kids ...
    I thought - I felt it was disingenuous and an insult and manipulative to our country. And yet that's where we were at. We were begging for lentils, for goodness sakes, to get in, instead of saying, "Look, this is unjust. It's unlawful.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a C ...
  • The Myth of 'American Exceptionalism' Implodes
    Until the 1970s, US capitalism shared its spoils with American workers. But since 2008, it has made them pay for its failures...Submitted by Sue D. to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Predatory bankers killing people and what we can l ...
    Please watchSubmitted by Bohm Judith to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Click 5 Times A Day To Save Adelaide-Scheduled for ...
    Emergency slaughter for the sweet Adelaide. We have just been asked to save Adelaide, nice donkey in emergency slaughter. It is already in the butcher who did not keep beyond 4 weeks and that calls for 250 euros, which must be added to vet and transporSubmitted by OFFLINE NoML Thompson to Animals ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • UN Says India's Human Rights Defenders Need Better ...
    The visit by Ms. Sekaggya, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, began on 10 January and included discussions with State officials, a broad segment of civil society and the press, representatives of UN agencies and th
  • Osama Bin Laden Threatens to Kill French Hostages ...
    In the message Bin Laden said that if France does not withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, the French hostages held by Al Qaeda will be killed.
  • New 'Wonder Woman' to Rise Again on NBC
    This potential series would take place in the City of Angels, where corporate executive Diana Prince fights evil and injustice as the feminine and strong Wonder Woman. No word yet on who will be able to succeed Lynda Carter, who originated the role
  • UN Reports Somali Severe Droughts Drive Herders Wi ...
    The Horn of Africa nation, which has not had a functioning central government since 1991 and has been torn apart by decades of conflict and factional strife, is already facing a dire humanitarian crisis in which 3.2 million people, more than 40 per
  • Bahrain's 'Easy Exit' Scheme for Illegal Aliens Be ...
    The scheme has not only helped those who have left for home but is bound to be of benefit to Bahrain as well. For one thing, the exploited illegals oftentimes tend to end up at their embassy's door once they reach the end of their tether suffering

 

To Do

renewable recycling conservation
Amid growth of renewables, coal fights to keep its share
Philadelphia Inquirer
- Jan 23, 2011
- 9 hours ago
Significant strides were made early in Rendell's eight-year administration, with legislation mandating renewable alternative-energy use. ...
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Martha Staskus: A Renewable Jobs Future in Vermont
BurlingtonFreePress.com
- Jan 23, 2011
- 2 hours ago
Already recognized for our ingenuity and innovation, we have the potential to lead the nation in renewable energy—creating jobs and the added value of ...
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Iowa gets $1.4 million for renewable energy
Bloomberg
- Jan 21, 2011
- Jan 21, 2011
By AP DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa will receive more than $1.4 million for renewable energy projects, the majority of which will support the production and ...
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India's pilot project on renewable energy soon in Egypt
Business Standard
- Jan 22, 2011
- Jan 22, 2011
PTI / Cairo January 22, 2011, 13:02 IST India will implement a pilot project on renewable energy in Egypt to enhance bilateral cooperation and encourage the ...
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Human Habitat

ecology water energy
Light sheen near derelict vessel aground in Wash.
Seattle Post Intelligencer
- Jan 22, 2011
- Jan 22, 2011
The Coast Guard and Washington state Department of Ecology sent pollution response teams to check for possible pollution and determine the condition of the ...
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Ecology issues burn ban for Stevens County starting Saturday
Access Washington
- Jan 21, 2011
- Jan 21, 2011
OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) is issuing a weekend burn ban in Stevens County to protect residents from worsening air quality. ...
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Hail the whale: Ocean ecology has its day in the sun at Whalefest Monterey
Monterey County Herald
- Jan 23, 2011
- 7 hours ago
By DENNIS TAYLOR Monterey-based reggae band Jonah and the Whale Watchers play above the Monterey Harbor at Whalefest Monterey. ...
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Stormwater control projects in WA to get funding
Water World
- Jan 21, 2011
- Jan 21, 2011
20, 2011 -- The Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) has announced the list of 43 cities and counties that will get a share of $23.4 million to ...
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[UPDATE] City Water Services Affected by Power Failure
WCTV
- Jan 23, 2011
- 27 minutes ago
But citizens,do you have any idea how old, nasty, rusty and corroded our water pipes are that carry our water throughout the city? ...
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LAWCO issues water boil order
Daily Iberian
- Jan 23, 2011
- 4 hours ago
The Louisiana Water Company has issued a water boil order Thursday night for the city of New Iberia due to a mechanical failure. Residents are advised to ...
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Michigan offers funds for volunteer water monitors
9&10 News
- Jan 23, 2011
- 7 hours ago
State officials are offering grants to volunteer groups willing to keep an eye on water quality in Michigan's streams and rivers. The Department of Natural ...
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Repairs continue on water main break in Teaneck
NorthJersey.com
- Jan 23, 2011
- 1 hour ago
The Phelps Road exit off of Route 4 in Teaneck remained closed Sunday morning as crews continued work on a broken water main that flooded streets for seven ...
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