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Thomas Paine

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

Sunday, January 23, 2011

23 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt 3

Open Your Eyes News

  • Home sales hit 13-year low; slow recovery ahead
    Associated Press – The number of people who bought previously owned homes last year fell to the lowest level in 13 years, and economists say it will be years before the housing market fully recovers. High unemployment and a record number of foreclosures are deterring potential buyers who fear home p ...
  • Scotland: Take vitamin D daily, mothers-to-be told
    Scotsman – Expectant mothers are being encouraged to take vitamin D supplements during pregnancy as part of efforts to improve the health of the population. The Scottish Government’s maternal and infant nutrition strategy includes recommendations on diet, aiming to highlight how nutritional choices ...
  • US bombing wipes out Afghan village from map
    Indo-Asian News Service -A village in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province has been completely wiped out of the map after an offensive by the US Army to get rid of the Taliban militants in the area, a media report said in London. Tarok Kolache, a small settlement in Kandahar near the Arghandad River Vall ...
  • Several injured in pro-democracy march in Algiers
    BBC _ Algerian police have broken up an anti-government demonstration by about 300 people in the centre of the capital, Algiers, calling for greater freedoms. Several protesters were injured and a number are reported to have been arrested. Seven police officers were also hurt, according to state med ...
  • Britain triggers global inflation alarm
    Financial Times – Some of the worldâs leading investors have turned bearish on government bonds from developed countries as they warn of the growing danger of inflation. Data this week showing the UKâs consumer price index hit 3.7 per cent in December fuelled that concern and sent benchmark British ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Pay Attention to Details in Land Swap Proposals
    Mark Landler has a New York Times article about some new maps from the Washington Institute’s David Makovsky that aims to propose some land-swap concepts for drawing a border between Israel and Palestine: The goal, Mr. Makovsky said, is to âdemystifyâ the territorial hurdles that divide Israelis an ...
  • The "Drug War" Is Over?
    Over the years, the so-called global "war on terror" (or "war on terrorism") has had its ups and downs as a foreign policy framing device. The George W. Bush administration, of course, relied upon the frame to sell virtually all its major foreign policies over a period of many years -- even though t ...
  • Strategic Challenges Found in US Demography
    This piece by Tom Mahnken is looking at demography as a strategic indicator when looking at the fortunes of nations in the future, but the piece concludes by looking at how demography may impact the United States. Demographic trends could have three major implications for the U.S. national security ...
  • What We Asked Conservatives about the War in Afgha ...
    Last week, we released results of a poll that we conducted asking conservatives (including self-identified members of the Tea Party) their views about the Afghanistan war and the level of American commitment that they thought was appropriate and necessary. The results werenât pretty if you are in fa ...
  • Hillary Clinton Says Wrong Venue for Israel/Palest ...
    The absence of results-producing American leadership in the Israel-Palestine mess has led both the Israelis and Palestinians, as well as stakeholders around the Middle East and world, to doubt the seriousness of the US effort. Why invest in something when the US seems so willing to fold on many of ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: Stop Me Before I Blog About Next ...
    Once you start talking about next year's presidential election, it becomes your go-to source on a slow news day. So it behooves me to endorse Michael Crowley's theory about Rudy Giuliani teasing another presidential run. And I have to mention Mitt Romney keeping his distance from the Tea Partiers. ...
  • Uncharted Territories.
    In addition to being honest about what even relatively educated Americans don't know about the rest of the world ("I freely admit I don't know the African map very well, which speaks volumes in and of itself"), today's XKCD strip manages to get comedy out of map projections. But as far as map humor ...
  • Fifty Years Later: Not Just Military, Still Indust ...
    As long as we're talking about which government spending Republicans are and aren't willing to cut, it's worth remembering that today is the fiftieth anniversary of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address, in which he warned about the dangers of the "military-industrial complex." An excerp ...
  • The Little Picture: A Media Intervention.
    (Flickr/siobh.ie) French reporters from France24 watch as Sarah Palin and John McCain concede the 2008 election. Today, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank called for various media outlets not to mention Palin for the month of February.
  • In Defense of the Nolan 'Bane.'
    Adam Serwer and Colorlines' Channing Kennedy are not pleased with Christopher Nolan's decision to cast actor Tom Hardy as the villain Bane in his next Batman film. Serwer thinks Bane is too dull to stand as a central villain (at least compared to Ras Al Ghul and the Joker), while Kennedy sees this a ...

Buzzflash

  • The Mass Marketing of Sarah Palin
    JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The oil companies are selling a new product: her name is Sarah Palin, and like all marketable products, she must be promoted with the extravagant flair of a grand advertising campaign. The product must be attractive and packaged in the form of a human mani ...
  • America's Permanent Wars Are Breeding Spiritual De ...
    BOB KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The easy violence of empire washes over everything. It washes into our psyches. I'm thinking about this in connection with the juxtaposition of anniversaries this week: Martin Luther King Day; President Eisenhower's farewell address to the nation in 1961, in whi ...
  • MLK Injustice Index 2011: Racism, Materialism and ...
    BILL QUIGLEY FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT "We as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values... when machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered. ...
  • Does Fascism Lurk Around the Corner in The USA?
    DANNY SCHECHTER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Fascism is one of those words that sounds like it belongs in the past, conjuring up, as it does, marching jack boots in the streets, charismatic demagogues like Italy's Mussolini or Spain's Franco and armed crackdowns on dissent and freedom of expression. ...
  • If You Don't Think Olbermann Was Fired Because of ...
    MARK KARLIN, BUZZFLASH EDITOR FOR TRUTHOUT If you don't think Keith Olbermann was fired from MSNBC due to Comcast's impending takeover - whatever cover story comes from NBC Universal - I have an igloo I want to sell you in the Mojave desert. Comcast is a right-leaning, big media entertainment cor ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Even more science news
    Science news snippets from the net meanderings of David Bradley Fighting malaria without DDT = FAIL – Review suggests DDT essential in fight against malaria, despite claims for green approaches. A new research paper exposes allegedly false claims and misrepresentations of science by United Nations e ...
  • Free chemistry dictionary
    UPDATE: 2011-01-20 Version 3.0 of the chemistry dictionary is now available. Now, with crowd-sourced, user-submitted words and an OpenOffice.org dictionary extension. “It took me the better part of a month,” Azman told us, “but I’ve made my own and I want it to be as open-source as possible. Chemspy ...
  • Social networking with research data
    I’d previously used the phrase “Napster for Research Papers” when thinking about Mendeley. Mendeley lets you upload your own research papers to your personal library under publishers’ fair use agreements and to share them with their peers as you might share a traditional paper reprint. So, maybe Nap ...
  • Even more science news
    Science news snippets from the net meanderings of David Bradley Sir David King on climate change – King said, “We hear enough from the climate change skeptics that I have to repeat some fundamentals that you’ve probably heard before.” Fifty-five million years ago, atmospheric CO2 concentrations stoo ...
  • Yet more science news
    Latest science news snippets from Sciencebase Bee team funded by Bayer – It is revealed that the lead investigator in the study that recently published results suggesting that bee colony collapse disorder (CCD) is due to the combined effect of a virus and a fungus is funded by the insecticide compan ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • As ‘Conservative’ Constitution Classes Begin, ACS ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 21, 2011American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS)In advance of Rep.read more
  • Vermont Single-Payer Proposals a ‘Major Step in Ri ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 21, 2011Physicians for a National Health ProgramLongtime reform advocate and Vermont family physician Dr. Deborah Richter hailed Wednesday’s report of health system expert William Hsiao to the Vermont Legislature, particularly Hsiao’s findings that a ...
  • Abortion Rights in Jeopardy as Roe v. Wade Reaches ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 21, 2011National Organization for Women (NOW)Tomorrow is the 38th anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision recognizing a woman's constitutional right to legal abortion care. As we honor this milestone, we thank those whose courage and determin ...
  • EPA Approves High Ethanol Fuel for More Vehicles
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 21, 2011Friends of the EarthFriends of the Earth joined a diverse coalition of business, environmental, budget watchdog and public interest groups in condemning today’s decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to approve the use of gasoline blends c ...
  • Sanders Hopes Immelt Focuses on U.S. Jobs
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 21, 2011Senator Bernie SandersPresident Obama today named Jeffrey R. Immelt, chairman and chief executive of General Electric, to lead the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. The GE chiarman has been outspoken about job growth – not in the United States ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • One Year Later, Movement Is Growing to Overturn 'C ...
    by Robert WeissmanThe theory and practice of the U.S. Supreme Court’s dreadful decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission are incompatible with a well-functioning democracy. read more
  • Financial Socialism by and for Wall Street Elites?
    by Les LeopoldMore than 70 percent of Americans say big bonuses should be banned this year at Wall Street firms that took taxpayer bailouts, a Bloomberg National Poll shows. An additional one in six favors slapping a 50 percent tax on bonuses exceeding $400,000. Just 7 percent of U.S. adults say ...
  • No Fracking Way to Balance a State Budget
    by Elizabeth DiNovellaMore than half of all states are getting a new governor this year, making this incoming class one of the largest in American history. The Republicans made huge gains in the states, with 18 new GOP governors taking office. The Midwest took an especially hard hit, as most Grea ...
  • WikiLeaks Defies the “War on Hi-Tech Terror”
    by John PilgerThe attacks on WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, are a response to an information revolution that threatens old power orders, in politics and in journalism. The incitement to murder trumpeted by public figures in the United States, together with attempts by the Obama administr ...
  • Obama Must Call Israeli Settlements Illegal
    by Ian Williams"To veto or not to veto?" That is the agonising question that has President Barack Obama pacing the battlements of the White House waiting to dodge the slings and arrows of outraged Aipac. Provoked by the latest demolition in East Jerusalem, no fewer than 120 countries have sponso ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Obama's War, One Year Later: 195 Million Say No to ...
    By Robert Greenwald Next month will mark the one-year anniversary of the launch of President Obama's escalated military campaign in Afghanistan. One year later, violence is still getting worse and costs are skyrocketing. After more than nine years, it's time to end this war. Take a strong p ...
  • From Military-Industrial Complex to Permanent War ...
    By Gareth Porter Fity years after Dwight D. Eisenhower’s January 17, 1961 speech on the “military-industrial complex”, that threat has morphed into a far more powerful and sinister force than Eisenhower could have imagined. It has become a “Permanent War State”, with the power to keep the United Sta ...
  • Mosul: A Lesson For Kandahar
    By Steve Hynd Yesterday, two more American soldiers engaged in "non-combat activities" were shot to death in Iraq, and a third was wounded. They were killed by an Iraqi soldier who smuggled live ammunition into a training exercise and then turned his gun on his trainers. While this type of "friendly ...
  • Joe Klein Has No Clue
    By Steve Hynd This week's TIME has a piece by veteran fan of armed interventions, Joe Klein, risably entitled "What it will take to finish the job in Afghanistan". It's worth a read as an example of how the U.S. hasn't a blessed clue how to accomplish any such thing, being a precis of the convention ...
  • An expensive stasis
    By Dave Anderson: Bernard Finel is depressing me as he explains why he is writing less now about Afghanistan than he has in the past. I am depressed because I fundamentally agree with him: At some point we’ll declare “combat operations” ended in Afghanistan. This will reduce the violence in the coun ...

Water Wars

  • Senator says water wars Georgia's #1 issue
    Senator Saxby Chambliss says Governor Nathan Deal's federal perspective will help in Georgia's water issue.
  • Environmental Issues Subject of Film Series
    KENT—The Environmental Summit Film Fest will begin a five-part series on Jan. 25. This year the series will be held at Kent School in the Dickenson auditorium on Tuesday evenings at 7:30. The series leads into the Environmental Summit on Feb 26.
  • Environmental Issues Subject of Film Series
    KENT—The Environmental Summit Film Fest will begin a five-part series on Jan. 25. This year the series will be held at Kent School in the Dickenson auditorium on Tuesday evenings at 7:30. The series leads into the Environmental Summit on Feb 26.
  • Environmental Issues Subject of Film Series
    KENT—The Environmental Summit Film Fest will begin a five-part series on Jan. 25. This year the series will be held at Kent School in the Dickenson auditorium on Tuesday evenings at 7:30. The series leads into the Environmental Summit on Feb 26.
  • Environmental Issues Subject of Film Series
    KENT—The Environmental Summit Film Fest will begin a five-part series on Jan. 25. This year the series will be held at Kent School in the Dickenson auditorium on Tuesday evenings at 7:30. The series leads into the Environmental Summit on Feb 26.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

  • Former ISI officer killed by Taliban
    'Colonel Imam', a former officer of Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) abducted in March 2010, was Sunday killed by the Pakistani Taliban in North Waziristan, media reports said.
  • Afghan Govt. accuses US linked private secur ...
    The Afghan government has reportedly listed a number of prominent private security companies, including some that work with the U.S. government, accusing them of committing "major offences."
  • Pakistani militant group executes Mullah Omar&#039 ...
    A Pakistani insurgent group has executed a former senior officer of the country's top intelligence organisation who once trained Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar, intelligence and rebel sources said Sunday.
  • Karzai agrees to dump 'parliament session del ...
    Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has reportedly agreed to put an end to his plans of delaying the parliament session by a month after lawmakers threatened to spark off a constitutional crisis.
  • Karzai will allow opening of lower parliament
    Afghan President Karzai will allow the lower house of parliament to open following assurances that they would respect any criminal cases brought by a special tribunal investigating election fraud.

Futurismic

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

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • Top Federal Contractors Rank Among 2010's Biggest ...
    By Bryan Rahija Do-gooder online media platform GOOD has published a fun new infographic illustrating which companies spent the most money on advertising in the first three quarters of 2010. Among the big spenders are three of the top 100...
  • We Don't Need More Shoppers: Part 2
    By Scott Amey This week, the Republican Study Committee (RSC) proposed the 2011 Spending Reduction Act. The legislation is estimated to save taxpayers $2.5 trillion through 2021. That’s a great start to lowering the federal deficit, keeping federal programs and...
  • Quote of the Day
    By Bryan Rahija A senior congressional staffer laments the disparity in manpower between committee staff and legions of lobbyists: "You want to know what a scandal is? The Defense Subcomittee of Approps is less than 20 staffers." POGO Investigator Paul...
  • Intricate Marine Weapons Systems Increasingly Targ ...
    Groups Recommend Cuts to V-22, F-35B and Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle By Nick Schwellenbach Veteran national security reporter Yochi J. Dreazen wrote an in-depth piece in yesterday’s National Journal on the identity crisis facing the Pentagon as it tries to navigate...
  • Morning Smoke: Two-Year Anniversary for Obama Open ...
    Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. Open-government initiative...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Ernie Regehr awarded Pearson Peace Medal
    Congratulations to Project Ploughshares’ co-founder Ernie Regehr on being awarded the Pearson Peace Medal! The medal is awarded by the United Nations Association in Canada to a Canadian who has personally contributed, through his or her working life and voluntary commitments, to causes to which Lest ...
  • Protesters in Halifax speak out against F-35
    The Halifax Peace Coalition held a protest against the Conservative government’s decision to buy the F-35 fighter-bomber on January 17th, which was Martin Luther King Jr. Day and also the 50th anniversary of U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower’s speech warning of the dangers of the military-industrial ...
  • NDP on Canada in Afghanistan
    This afternoon at the Centre for Policy Studies (CIPS), University of Ottawa - The Hon. Jack Layton delivered a confident and passionate address regarding Canada's leadership on the mission in Afghanistan.
  • President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 1961 farewell spe ...
    Video: Fifty years ago, on January 17, 1961, Americans gathered around their TV sets to watch President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell speech from the White House. He warned the American people about the growth in economic power and political influence of an immense military establishment and a lar ...
  • Eisenhower’s farewell address and F-35s
    On Monday January 17th, 2011 Steven Staples's Hill Times article will commemorate Eisenhower's iconic farewell speech and offer some thoughts on today's military industrial complex.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Do Synthetic Food Colors Cause Hyperactivity?
    January 11th, 2011 Chicago Tribune By: Julie Deardorff Food coloring is the reason glace cherries are red rather than beige and that children’s tongues sometimes appear freakishly blue. But man-made dyes may do more than make processed food look vibrant and whimsical. Some blame the additives for tr ...
  • Obesity May Be a Factor in Vitamin D Deficiency
    January 11th, 2011 Natural News By: Amelia Bentrup People who weigh more have lower circulating levels of Vitamin D according to recent research conducted at the Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet Medical Center in Oslo, Norway and published in the Journal of Nutrition. Lead researcher, Zoya Lagunova, ...
  • Birch Bark Nutrient Prevents Obesity, Diabetes and ...
    January 11th, 2011 Natural News By: Jonathan Benson Researchers from the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBC) in China have identified a powerful compound in birch bark called betulin that helps lower cholesterol and prevent both diabetes and obesity. And betulin works particularly bet ...
  • Osteoporosis Drugs Cause Thigh Bone Fractures
    January 11th, 2011 Natural News By: David Gutierrez A class of widely prescribed osteoporosis drugs may significantly increase the risk of a rare type of thigh fracture, the FDA has warned. The FDA ordered a new warning label for all drugs in the bisphosphonate family, including Merck’s Fosamax (mar ...
  • Vaccinations and Allergy Shots Causing Allergies t ...
    January 11th, 2011 Natural News By: S.L. Baker An allergic reaction to aluminum used to be extraordinarily rare. That’s not true any more, however, and researchers have been baffled for an explanation. Now it appears one has been found. It turns out that as the number of vaccinations people are give ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • » Dub FX
  • It’s nice to have Twitter, but it’s even nicer to ...
    Noting that Tunisia did not just have a Twitter revolution, Doyle McManus writes: Now that the dust has settled, it’s clearer that Tunisia’s upheaval, like all revolutions, arose from local circumstances that don’t foretell what will happen anywhere else. Ben Ali’s government was a family-run klept ...
  • Turkey’s dynamic role in the Middle East
    James Traub writes: In the fall of 2009, relations between Serbia and Bosnia — never easy since the savage civil war of the 1990s — were slipping toward outright hostility. Western mediation efforts had failed. Ahmet Davutoglu, the foreign minister of Turkey, offered to step in. It was a complicate ...
  • WikiLeaks, the internet and democracy
    (H/t Pulse.)
  • Lebanon Druze leader Walid Jumblatt sides with Hez ...
    The Los Angeles Times reports: The U.S.-backed parliamentary coalition led by caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri was on the verge of losing its tenuous grip on the Lebanese government after a key politician defected Friday to support the Shiite militant group Hezbollah. The decision by Walid Jum ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Normal Seasons of the Sun (GW Tiger)
    Guest post by Ira Glickstein PhD. We had joy, we had fun, we had Seasons of the Sun. But the mountains we climbed were but whimsies of our minds. That song (apologies to Terry Jacks) could well be the theme … Continue reading →
  • Cold Fusion Going Commercial!?
    Foreword: I gave Ric Werme permission to do this essay. I don’t have any doubt that the original Cold Fusion research was seriously flawed. That said, this recent new development using a different process is getting some interest, so let’s … Continue reading →
  • New WUWT Solar Images and Data Page
    I’ve done some house cleaning and maintenance today to replace the aging SOHO image on the sidebar (which had not been updating since January 11th, thanks to Ric Werme for reminding me) with a new image from the Solar Dynamics … Continue reading →
  • Alarming trends
    Over at Bishop Hill’s blog, he posted this graph below which is an output from a special Google Labs search query. It lists the percentage of books that are about nuclear war and climate change. Fittingly, the climate change graph … Continue reading →
  • The Metrology of Thermometers
    For those that don’t notice, this is about metrology, not meteorology, though meteorology uses the final product. Metrology is the science of measurement. Since we had this recent paper from Pat Frank that deals with the inherent uncertainty of temperature … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • “The 15% Solution,” Serialization, 12th Installmen ...
    Note: The Preface and Chapters One through Ten can be found here: The 15% Solution. by Jonathan Westminster, Ph.D. aka Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on TPJmagazine.us January 23, 2011 This is the twelfth installment of a project that is likely to extend over a two ...
  • Iraq: ‘evidence for criminal case against Bl ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ www.therealnews.com A leading QC tells Channel 4 there is enough evidence for the International Criminal Court to mount a case against Tony Blair. Iraq: ‘evidence for criminal case against Blair’ says expert *** Iraq War Inquiry PressTVGlobalNews | January 22, 20 ...
  • The Doomsday Project, Deep Events, and the Shrinki ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Prof. Peter Dale Scott Global Research, January 22, 2011 Asia-Pacific Journal Vol 9, Issue 4 No 2, January 24, 2011 I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency [the National Security Agency] and al ...
  • Barack Obama: As Bad as Bush by Mike Whitney
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Mike Whitney Global Research January 22, 2011 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 Bar ...
  • Britain Spearheads “Mini-NATO” In Arct ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism January 22, 2011 On January 19 and 20 British Prime Minister David Cameron hosted his counterparts from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania at the first Nordic Balt ...

Your New Reality

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    John Gray reviews Ha-Joon Chang's 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism : ...free market policies rarely make poor countries richer; global companies without national roots belong in the realm of myth; the US does not have the highest living standards in the world; the washing machine ch ...
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    Beautiful Russian animation from Anatoly Petrov in 1978. The subject matter is fascinating, more so considering how close the war industry is to linking the human mind directly to weapons :
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    Mute the sound on this video, taken during the Southeast Queensland floods last week, before you watch it. The music destroys the atmosphere, there should be silence, the only sound that of water lapping.
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    Hey Gun Massacre Guy! We're Gonna Make You Famous! Just Like You Wanted! By Darryl Mason It was once forbidden in newspaper journalism to write that someone had committed suicide, even if they were famous, a prime minister, a movie star. The fear, based in what has long seemed to be pretty solid e ...
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    There's so much to say about this wonderful, brilliant lecture by Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy author Douglas Adams, but I'm not going to spoil any of it. Just get through the first 10 minutes or so and you'll find it almost impossible to stop listening. I had to tear myself away from it at 3am, ...

Wired - Science

  • 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Jonathan Cook: Pilgrims to site where Jesus was ba ...
    The army declared the River Jordan a closed military zone in 1967 and later laid mines along much of its length to deter "infiltrators" from Jordan, both Palestinian refugees seeking to return to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • Israel moves to turn deserted Palestinian village ...
    Israelis and Palestinians dedicated to the village Lifta's preservation have called the plan to build 212 luxury units and a small hotel the end for the last Palestinian village of its kind. IOA... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Gaza doctor Izzeldin Abuelaish two years after Isr ...
    Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish was a well-known Palestinian gynecologist who spent years working in one of Israeli’s main hospitals. On January 16, 2009, two days before the end of Israel’s brutal 22-day... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Assaf Kfoury: Will the US Ignite the Lebanese Tind ...
    For months now, the media has been reporting that the UN-mandated Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) is expected to indict Hezbollah members for the killing of Rafiq Hariri in February 2005. Up until... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • ACLU suing King County [Washington State] over can ...
    The ACLU of Washington filed a federal lawsuit against King County over the decision to cancel a bus ad that alleges Israeli war crimes. The lawsuit claims that King County violated the First... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Innovative Health Professions Education for the 21 ...
    Nova Southeastern University's Medical School receives $2.3. million of federal stimulus money to train medical students and other health professionals to better serve communities lacking adequate health care.
  • Florida State University Expert Sources on the 25t ...
    Jan. 28 will mark the 25th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in which all eight astronauts on board, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe, were killed when the shuttle exploded 73 seconds after liftoff. The disaster became a "where were you when?" moment for a generation, esp ...
  • Duke Energy and Siemens Energy Provide Financial S ...
    Two Charlotte energy companies, Duke Energy and Siemens Energy, today announced $8.8 million in support for the Energy Production and Infrastructure Center [EPIC] at UNC Charlotte. Duke Energy will provide approximately $4.5 million and Siemens Energy will provide approximately $4.3 million in suppo ...
  • Oklahoma State University BioWinol Project Seeking ...
    OSU is seeking public input as to the viability of using wind energy and carbon dioxide to produce ethanol. Watch video on the Planet Forward website at http://goo.gl/Ek1A0 and vote if its a research concept worth pursuing.
  • What You Need to Know About Preventing an Infant A ...
    The story of Carlina White has brought new light to the subject of infant abduction. To protect their infants, the Director of Women's and Children's Services at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore says all parents need to know and follow these tips.

Natural Health News

  • Dogs Play the Piano
    The first two dogs just look like they�re playing the piano.� But Tucker, the dog in the second video, may actually know what he�s doing!
  • The Amazing Mimic Octopus
    Octopuses are extremely intelligent, and they invertebrates and can change the color and texture of their skin to blend in with rocks or coral to avoid predators. �But the Mimic Octopus takes this one step further -- it can actually assume the appearance of another creature!
  • Healthy Gums Lead to Healthy Lungs
    Gum health may actually contribute to a healthy respiratory system. �A new study suggests that periodontal disease increases your risk of respiratory infections. Such infections can be caused when bacteria from your upper throat are inhaled into your lower respiratory tract.� They can be severe ...
  • ALERT: Seizures Now Reported in Kids Receiving Fl ...
    The U.S. FDA is looking into an uptick in young children having febrile seizures following a flu shot.� There have now been 36 confirmed reports of such seizures during the current flu season. All of the seizures took place less than a day after the children were given Fluzone. �Fluzone is curr ...
  • Antioxidants Boost Male Urinary Tract Health and F ...
    Antioxidants from dietary (but not supplemental) sources may reduce a man�s risk of developing lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) by up to 50 percent.� The highest intakes of lycopene, beta-carotene, or vitamin A were associated with a 40 to 50 percent reduction in the risk of LUTS. In related ...

Antemedius

  • Insider Threats To Obama
    White House’s ‘insider threat’ program targets federal employees for surveillance from Daniel Tencer at RawStory... In an effort to prevent another Bradley Manning, the Obama administration is urging all federal government agencies to watch its employees for signs they may be leaking classified inf ...
  • Jack
    He was inaugurated fifty years ago yesterday, on January 20, 1961... and he said something that day that I've not heard from any politician since: Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of ...
  • Krauthammer And Conservative "Constitutionalism"
    Is there anyone more disingenuous than Charles Krauthammer? In his column in the Washington Post today he goes on and on about what he perceives as the new “constitutionalism” that is coming to the Republican controlled House of Representatives. He gleefully compares it to constitutional “originalis ...
  • Black Agenda Report's Glen Ford on Obama Appointin ...
    Analysis of Obama's appointment of J.P. Morgan's William Daley to WH Chief of Staff... Real News Network - January 7, 2011 New Obama Chief of Staff A Message to Wall Street Glen Ford of BlackAgendaReport.com: President Obama is more concerned with pleasing Wall St than appeasing public opinion
  • Governance By A Single Political Party: The Demore ...
    It is the only rational conclusion a thinking person can attain.  The United States is not governed by operatives of either one or the other of two major political parties.  There is only one major political party that is always at the helm of our system of government, and below all the decks, pulli ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • One Generation Before and After Martin Luther King
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table When company comes. Nobody’ll dare Say to me, “Eat in the kitchen,” Then. Besides, They’ ...
  • OUP Law Yearbooks Available Online
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Oxford University Press has asked me to post the following announcement: Law Yearbooks from Oxford – Free Online Access until February 28th Since the start of January 2011 the law yearbooks from Oxford University Press, previously available only in print, ...
  • What We’ve Learned from WikiLeaks
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller As the U.S. government continues to try to shut down WikiLeaks — preferably, it seems, without having to actually charge Assange or the website with an actual crime — it’s important not to forget how much we’ve learned through WikiLeaks’ efforts.  Here is ...
  • Massachusetts High Court Finds Vienna Convention o ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Actually, I am not quite sure, since all I have is this report on the recent decision of the Supreme Judicial Circuit of Massachusetts holding that the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations gives foreign nationals legal rights to the notification of their consular offi ...
  • Rating Agencies, Sovereign Debt Downgrades, and Pu ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Particularly since the European sovereign debt crisis put the question of sovereign debt ratings squarely on the table, and even more in the last few days since the rating agencies have downgraded Greek debt to junk status, I have to wonder what insulates M ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Investigate Political Poll 2011 - No1
    Investigate magazine's first big omnibus and political poll in more than five years is underway. If you want to fill in the survey form (takes less than two minutes on average) online, you'll find it here.
  • BREAKING NEWS: Arizona shooter of Gabrielle Giffor ...
    The young gunman who shot and killed six people, and left Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition, appears to have borne a grudge against Giffords after meeting her in 2007 at the age of 19. According to reports, former...
  • New study says CO2 rise a result of warmer tempera ...
    A new peer reviewed study supports another contention I raised in Air Con: that CO2 increase follows temperature increase, and that there appears to be no correlation between fossil fuel emissions and temperature. The paper is available in full in...
  • RIP Chris Carter, Investigate columnist
    It's an odd thing, finding out on the radio news that your magazine's longest serving opinion columnist has passed away. What turns out to be his last column only hit the newsstands yesterday in the latest Investigate magazine: Chris Carter...
  • Climate scientists go feral, begin wearing cammo g ...
    Utah survivalists infiltrate climate science community. Whodathunkit?: It might surprise, and hopefully disturb you, to hear that in my short time at AGU, I discovered four scientists who are already creating some form of survival retreat for their family, and...

My Care2 Picks

  • Ohio State Scientists Explain Why Bedbugs Won't Di ...
    The bugs that had been exposed to pesticides were able to produce enzymes that render the poisons useless. These enzymes can "modify toxic compounds into water-soluble, non-toxic compounds that can then be flushed out of the bug.Submitted by Sandra Watson to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • Where were the Doctors when the Type 2 diabetes di ...
    Where were the Doctors as 10 million people became diabetic in 7 years?Submitted by . to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The downfall of science and the rise of intellectu ...
    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 toSubmitted by Sandra Watson to Science & Tech ...
  • Bye Bye Blackbird: USDA Acknowledges a Hand in One ...
    USDA's Wildlife Services Program sed an avicide poison called DRC-1339 to cull a roost of 5,000 birds. In 2009, USDA agents euthanized more than 4 million red-winged blackbirds, starlings, cowbirds, and gracklesSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Ground Truth Trekking - Blog
    Exploring remote minesites and wilderness operationsSubmitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Palestinian charged with insulting leader online - ...
    Palestinian charged with insulting leader online - Yahoo! News: "RAMALLAH, West Bank – A reporter tagged in a Facebook image that mocked the Palestinian president said Saturday he faces trial for... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • PressTV - US-led forces wipe Afghan town off map
    PressTV - US-led forces wipe Afghan town off map: "Fresh US-led military offensives have completely destroyed a town in southern Afghanistan, as public discontent continues to grow over civilian... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Kontras: Human rights violations in Papua still hi ...
    Kontras: Human rights violations in Papua still high � West Papua Action Network: "Andi Saputra, Jakarta — The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims ofViolence (Kontras) says that human rights... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Israeli Settlers' Terror | Sabbah Report
    Israeli Settlers' Terror | Sabbah Report: "Palestinians in the Israeli occupied West Bank face waves after waves of Israeli terror campaigns throughout the year. These terror waves are committed by... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • WikiLeaks | File-sharing networks may hold the key
    WikiLeaks | File-sharing networks may hold the key: [theage.com.au/] "The company, which has done investigative searches on behalf of US agencies including the FBI, said it discovered computers in... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

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

True/Slant Headline Grabs

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 ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • Investigate Political Poll 2011 - No1
    Investigate magazine's first big omnibus and political poll in more than five years is underway. If you want to fill in the survey form (takes less than two minutes on average) online, you'll find it here.
  • BREAKING NEWS: Arizona shooter of Gabrielle Giffor ...
    The young gunman who shot and killed six people, and left Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition, appears to have borne a grudge against Giffords after meeting her in 2007 at the age of 19. According to reports, former...
  • New study says CO2 rise a result of warmer tempera ...
    A new peer reviewed study supports another contention I raised in Air Con: that CO2 increase follows temperature increase, and that there appears to be no correlation between fossil fuel emissions and temperature. The paper is available in full in...
  • RIP Chris Carter, Investigate columnist
    It's an odd thing, finding out on the radio news that your magazine's longest serving opinion columnist has passed away. What turns out to be his last column only hit the newsstands yesterday in the latest Investigate magazine: Chris Carter...
  • Climate scientists go feral, begin wearing cammo g ...
    Utah survivalists infiltrate climate science community. Whodathunkit?: It might surprise, and hopefully disturb you, to hear that in my short time at AGU, I discovered four scientists who are already creating some form of survival retreat for their family, and...

Mondoweiss

  • Gisha: Israeli flotilla inquiry cannot authorize t ...
    In response to today's publication of the interim report of the Turkel Commission to Examine the Maritime Incident of 31 May, 2010, and its conclusion that the naval closure of the Gaza Strip, as well as the actions Israel took to enforce it, are consistent with the provisions of international law, ...
  • My Khan Yunis
    I felt no difference. Although I hadn’t physically been there before, every single street I passed through looked so familiar to me. I felt I belong to a place my feet had never trod and my eyes never seen. I wasn’t a mere visitor and I hated to be treated so. Khan Yunis is my [...]
  • Encounters with Israeli cinema
    Production still from�Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel This post is a consideration of Ella Shohat�s discussion of her book, Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation,�on the occasion of its 25th anniversary at Alwan for the Arts in New York this week.� El ...
  • If Israel continues to quash nonviolent protest wi ...
    Mohammed Khatib and Jonathan Pollak write in the Huffington Post about Israel's ongoing crackdown on the Palestinian nonviolent movement: When Jonathan and his friends first came to Bil'in, we Palestinians were surprised to meet Israelis who believed in our rights. But after we saw these Israelis ...
  • Israelis target Macy Gray with racist diatribes af ...
    The Israeli media is filled with reports about Macy Gray confirming her plans to perform in Tel Aviv in March. This should have been an occasion for Israelis to celebrate their continuing ability to behave as a normal society despite occupying millions of people, holding Gaza under siege, maintainin ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: Medical Industry Data Proves Influenza Vaccin ...
    The Influenza virus itself is constantly mutating from year to year. While mainstream doctors are traditionally divided, several prominent Studies have come forward in recent years challenging the Status Quo on the efficacy of the sacrosanct Flu shot & awakened an increasingly distrustful ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 3 – Synt ...
    For centuries humankind has depended on an inherent natural immunity to survive; adapting to environmental changes while overcoming mutable diseases, viruses, bacterial or biological threats & inter-species cross contamination. With the 21st Century advancement of high-tech laboratory scie ...
  • VRM: GlaxosmithKline Implicated In Systemic Clinic ...
    ‘A psychiatrist on the payroll of GlaxoSmithKline has been sentenced to 13 months in prison after pleading guilty to committing research fraud in clinical trials for antidepressant Paxil. Palazzo enrolled children who did not actually suffer from major depressive or obsessive compulsive disorder ...
  • VRM: California Institutes Mandatory DTaP Vaccinat ...
    âFor the 2011â12 school year only, children entering 7thâ12th grade will need proof of a DTaP (Diphtheria,Tetanus & Pertussis) shot before starting school. For 2012-13 and beyond, only students entering 7th grade will need proof of a Tdap shot.â California Depât of Public Health ‘The law will ap ...
  • VRM: Health Matters Part 2
    BISPHENAL A PLASTIC is deadly. It leaks a synthetic hormone which mimics Estrogene & is present in most common store-bought products, also found in the lining of all soup cans. Long term effects include Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Androgeny. It should be noted that in the original tests th ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • No Young Soldiers
    10 August 2009 Sangin, Afghanistan Daily dramas unfolded, including the bangs, booms and small-arms fire that punctuated the times.� At 1800, I was preparing to go to orders with 1 Platoon, A Company of 2 Rifles, when shots from a large-caliber rifle began cracking low over base.� I passed by sni ...
  • Death in the Corn: Part III of III
    Published: 22 September 2008 Living with British troops of 2 Para at FOB Gibraltar and watching them fight, I witnessed one of the great paradoxes of Afghanistan. The troops are fighting hard and killing the enemy. They are professional and extremely competent. Their morale is high. They are ...
  • Death in the Corn: Part II of III
    Published: 17 September 2008 The ambush was set, but “Terry” Taliban didn’t step into it. The most successful hunters are not the ones who bag something every time, but the ones who hunt all the time, and 2 Para has been hunting the most dangerous prey. The soldiers of C-co 2 Para are not sure ho ...
  • Death in the Corn: Part I of III
    Published: 15 September 2008 Helmand Province, Afghanistan The soldiers are living like animals at a little rat’s nest called FOB Gibraltar. They call it “Gib.” Named after the lynchpin of British naval dominance in the Mediterranean, this cluster of mud huts in the middle of hostile territory ...
  • For My Thai Friends
    04 January 2011 Was walking by the water.� There were thousands of birds and so I wanted to send this snapshot back to Thailand.� Thai people are welcome in Florida!� Y'all get over here. Michael {loadposition user8}

The Killing Train

  • More such philanthrocapitalism we shall be utterly ...
    Philanthrocapitalism, a book by Bishop and Edwards, argues that philanthropy will help the public accept a new age of plutocracy (the rule by wealth). The rich are giving their money away so effectively, they say, that the public won't mind increasing inequality. read more
  • I am not a gadget
    Jaron Lanier, author of "You are not a gadget", is very well-informed about what he is writing about, which is some of the social consequences of the internet, and some of the implicit ideologies that are built into the internet as we are living with it today. Lanier was one of the early minds behin ...
  • Raj Patel's "Value of Nothing"
    For various reasons I found myself with several hours on public transit and with Raj Patel's fine book "The Value of Nothing" in hand. I really liked a few things about it. First, it's a very readable summary of a lot of economic theories (and ideologies) that guide policies today. For a more mathem ...
  • A short video on Toronto Star's recent G20 coverag ...
    Three minutes on technology and protests, focusing on the Toronto Star's recent G20 coverage, especially Rosie DiManno's articles.
  • Thoughts on Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows"
    After a couple of recommendations from a couple of different directions, I read Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows: What the internet is doing to our brains". It combines neuroplasticity research (which I read about in Norman Doidge's "The Brain that Changes Itself") with ideas about a literary, print-ba ...

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 ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • California judge approves landmark settlement in t ...
    [JURIST] Los Angeles County Superior Court [official website] Judge William F. Highberger approved a settlement on Friday effectively limiting the use of seniority in layoffs in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) [official website]. The class action suit against the State of California ...
  • For-profit schools file suit seeking to overturn n ...
    [JURIST] The Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities (APSCU) [official website] on Friday filed suit [complaint, PDF] against the US Department of Education (DOE) [official website] in federal court seeking to overturn three regulations promulgated by the department. The challenged r ...
  • Guatemala ex-president begins embezzlement trial
    [JURIST] Former Guatemalan president Alfonso Portillo [CIDOB profile, in Spanish] went to trial on Friday facing charges of embezzlement [JURIST report]. Portillo denies accusations that he diverted approximately USD $15 million in funds from the Ministry of Defense while he was in power between 200 ...
  • Haiti to probe alleged rights violations by former ...
    [JURIST] Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] announced Friday that Haitian authorities will investigate crimes committed against humanity [press release] allegedly committed under the rule of Jean-Claude Duvalier [BBC backgrounder] during the 1970s and 80s. The announcement comes one day a ...
  • Bosnia war crimes court sentences Muslim commander ...
    [JURIST] The appellate division of the War Crimes Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) [official website] on Friday sentenced [press release] Sefik Alic, a Muslim commander, to 10 years in prison, overturning his 2008 acquittal. The prosecutor appealed the original verdict on the grounds that the l ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • What Obama Will Say
    President Obama will unveil a blueprint for competitiveness in his third State of the Union address on Tuesday, beginning a two-year battle with Republicans over what mix of policies will best catalyze job growth. His reelection is two years away, and this speech--arguably the most important one he' ...
  • Michele Bachmann to Deliver SOTU Rebuttal, Too
    We thought the speaking lineup for next Tuesday had been finalized, but there's been a late addition. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) will deliver her own response to President Obama's State of the Union address, to be webcast by the group Tea Party Express next Tuesday. The group announced Bachman ...
  • Paul Ryan's SOTU Response: What Could Go Wrong?
    Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan is exactly the sort of telegenic, mild-mannered spokesman the new Republican House needs as its leaders seek to reintroduce the party. He's known as one of the intellectuals of the GOP, and is respected by Democrats for his willingness to go deep into the weeds of budget pol ...
  • Paul Ryan Will Deliver State of the Union Response
    Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., will deliver his party's official response to President Obama's State of the Union Address next week, a senior GOP source confirms. Ryan, one of his party's leading deficit hawks, has won praise from many -- including the president -- for his willingness to outline specific ...
  • Obama's Rising Approval Validates McConnell's Stra ...
    Greg Sargent of the Washington Post just made a point that I was planning to make: the recent jump in President Obama's approval ratings, after the flurry of December deal cutting, sure seems to validate Mitch McConnell's strategy of refusing to cooperate with Democrats. As Greg writes, teeing off a ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Fox News’ Beck Gunnin’ for 78 Year-Old Columbia Un ...
    Glenn Beck isn’t satisified being a popular FoxNews bloviator.  He appears to be driving some of his more deranged followers to take a potshot at a distinguished City University of New York professor, Frances Fox Piven.  Maybe he even expects a rating bonanza as a result. Prof. Fox Piven is one of ...
  • Israel Drops Sex Harrassment Charge Against Palest ...
    18 months ago, Palestinian academic lecturer, Dr. Honida Gaanam, was trying to fly to France for an academic conference.  Her problem is that she was flying while Arab.  The Ben Gurion airport security guard began to search Ganaam’s bra invasively and the victim fought back by grabbing the guard’s ...
  • Supreme Court Reopens Israel’s Guantanamo
    If you’ve ever heard Alan Dershowitz or any liberal Zionist talk about the wonderful role played by the Israeli High Court in protecting democracy and human rights in Israel, do me a favor and quote ‘em this post I’m writing.  I’m sorry to say that the Supreme Court is little more than a sham; wind ...
  • Shiloh Settlers to Rabbi Ascherman: ‘You Destroy J ...
    Here is some eye-opening video of the protest outside Rabbi Arik Ascherman’s Jerusalem home by extremist settlers from the Shiloh settlement. They protested against Ascherman’s planned Tu B’Shvat tree planting ceremony (today) at a Palestinian village whose orchards have been destroyed by the Shiloh ...
  • Links for 2010-06-05 [Digg]
    MV Rachel Corrie Forcibly Seized by Israeli Navy, Towed to A Malaysian NGO funding Rachel Corrie trip to Gaza reports she was seized a few mintues ago by Israeli navy and is being towed to Ashdod.

Ode Magazine

  • How to reap the harvest of peace
    By: PeaceCorso Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire assures us that "if we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow the seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present." Ms. Maguire knows whereof she sp ...
  • Cultures of compliments
    By: Anne Thomas In the culture I grew up in compliments came naturally and abundantly. If someone looked nice, we told them so. If clothes were attractive, we let people know. If someone bought a new car or house, we all sang our praises. That sort of positive, enc ...
  • 2011 Year of the rabbit: A time for pause
    By: Chintana According to eastern astrology, 2011 is the Year of the Rabbit. It is said that this will be a temperate time with unhurried pace, suitable for introspection and respite. I’m not one for fortune telling but isn’t this a nice thought? Seems like we ...
  • Learning by accident
    By: Rosalia There was a time I lived like a carefree woman who read bad news, shook her head, and went about her usual day. I felt secure in the world, and the knowledge that I controlled my own destiny. That time ended on April 13, 2002. Before then, I hadn’t ...
  • Peace takes will
    By: PeaceCorso Yo-yo Ma is arguably the world’s finest living cellist. Imagine October 17, 1999: the day he lost his $2.5 million Stradivarius in a taxi cab. Excerpted from the New York Times … by Katherine E. Finkelstein … Yo-Yo Ma, the world's most famo ...

OpEd News

  • Economic Trouble in 2011
    Expect turbulence in 2011
  • Druze Leader Jumblatt Backs Hezbollah
    Battle lines in Lebanon are now drawn.
  • Super Sunday Is January 23th / Jets and Packers Wi ...
    Super Sunday is the NFL Championship on January 23th where the final four NFL teams square off before home team crowds, zero degree weather and an excited nationwide TV audience watching pure pro football at its exhilarating best ~ before it becomes sanitized and commercialized as the Super Hype Bow ...
  • Former CIA Spy Who Runs Own Private CIA & WikiLeak ...
    A recent NY Times story on a former CIA spy running a private spy network from the side of his pool and what we might learn about this former CIA spy's work in Afghanistan through the leaked Wikileaks cables.
  • The Disappearance of Keith Olbermann
    The ongoing significance of media imbalance is that it gives the Right enormous capabilities to control the national debate, not only during election campaigns but year-round. Republicans can deploy what intelligence operatives call "agit-propaganda," stirring controversies that rile up the public a ...

Switchboard

  • President Hu and President Obama in Washington: Ad ...
    President Hu Jintao concluded his visit to the United States Friday, after meeting with President Obama and other top government and business leaders in Washington, D.C., and Chicago.  Among the many issues on the agenda for these two leaders, strengthening cooperation on climate chang ...
  • A Brighter View of CFLs
    This week The Wall Street Journal published an unfortunate piece on the successful energy efficiency programs in California. The piece, The New Light Bulbs Lose a Little Shine (Jan. 19), focused on the ongoing controversy over exactly how much energy the California programs have saved, ...
  • Obama illuminates the Electric City by renewing hi ...
    President Obama spoke today from General Electric's headquarters in Schenectady, NY�(pronounced ska'nektadi; i.e., the "Electric City")�at the very spot where Thomas Edison and partners�founded the General Electric company nearly 120 years ago. "Our job is to do everything we can to ...
  • Innovation as the Basis for American Jobs and a Cl ...
    As one of the business representatives on new President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, former GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt challenged the nation to re-establish itself as “a technology-based, export-oriented economic powerhouse”. He listed innovation as one of the two pillars of such ...
  • Gulf health concerns to Pres. Obama; Better drilli ...
    In an article in Facing South, the online magazine for the Institute of Southern Studies, Frances Beinecke, acting in her role as a member of the Oil Spill Commission, pledged to take the serious health concerns of the Gulf residents back to President Obama…  David Pettit penned an Op- ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • History and anti-vaccination anxiety
    So The Times ran an op-ed the other day about the history of anti-vaccination fears. The piece was written by Michael Willrich, a very good historian of the progressive era whose forthcoming book on the early 20th century smallpox eradication program will be coming out in late March.  The majority o ...
  • Olbermann Replacement Options
    If MSNBC decides to go “respectable,” they can do worse than Mr. Matthew Duss: If “incendiary” is the preference, then I cannot recommend Joe “Media Czech” Sonka highly enough: But for sheer entertainment value, it’s obvious that MSNBC can’t do better than the LGM Happy Family Fun Time Variety Hou ...
  • Chess Fraud
    Cheating’s not just for cyclists: An announcement on Friday on the French Chess Federationâs Web site accuses three of its own players of cheating during last yearâs Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. The players accused of cheating are grandmasters Sébastien Feller, Franceâs fifth-ranked p ...
  • “Oh. Your Nostalgia File. Oh. That&#8217 ...
    I can’t really claim vindication over having predicted that the Angels’ run as rulers of the AL West would end in 2010, given that I had been erroneously predicting it for years before it happened. So I was reluctant to say that it wasn’t an aberration. But at this point, I [...] Related posts ...
  • Olbermann
    Out. Not shocking in the grand scheme of things, I suppose. He provided definitive proof that liberal cable news could sell, an important accomplishment. One of his last stands didn’t exactly cover him with glory, though. Related posts:Olbermann Olbermann suspended for making campaign ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • The death knell for capital punishment?
    Death penalty opponents are allowing themselves to contemplate that a major Midwestern state, not known as light on crime, is about to take a dramatic stand against the death penalty.
  • Obama's diverse bench
    Obama's successful nominees for district and circuit courts make up the most diverse group ever along racial, ethnic and gender lines, according to an analysis of Federal Judicial Center data.
  • Warning Signs
    In recent years, questions have multiplied about the responsibility by colleges and universities for the violent behavior of students.
  • Darvon's turn in the limelight
    The next great pharmaceutical multidistrict litigation may have arrived — in the form of thousands of claims against the prescription pain medications Darvon and Darvocet.
  • Must Congo pay for misconduct?
    When the Democratic Republic of Congo ran afoul of two court orders in Washington last year, a federal judge imposed a monetary sanction that doubled every month, topping out at $80,000 per week. The fine has now grown to more than $2 million, and the Central African nation is looking for a way out ...

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Changes Made to DEP’s Website
    FYI -  DEP has made a change to their website, making it a little harder to find violations of Oil & Gas drillers. From the DEP main page, you now have to click on “Latest News” tab - Violations are listed there now, along with the production data. Not hidden, just moved. You can also go there [. ...
  • Become a Waterdog!
    Become a Pine Creek Waterdog!! It’s simple and could make a huge difference in protecting our environment and assisting the DEP in enforcing compliance with our regulations.  The Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group is holding a training and registration for Waterdogs on February 8, 2011 from 7 to ...
  • Waterdog Training January 10th 2011
    Waterdogs Training Monday, January 10th, 2011 7:00-9:00pm Jersey Shore Middle School Library Registration Fee $10 Additional $20 if you would like a TDS Meter Registration is due by January 3rd, 2011 Please make checks payable to: LCCD Lycoming County Conservation District 542 County Farm Road, Suit ...
  • Pittsburgh Sets Model to Reject Corporate-Imposed ...
    November 30, 2010 By S.B. Thompson Chambersburg, PA – Edited for length * The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) is actively involved in many issues to help prevent corporations from raping America’s land and resources, including speaking out against uranium mining and mountaintop re ...
  • Investigating the US Gas Boom
    I know many of you are becoming very aware of the natural gas boom happening in the Mid Atlantic area. This video covers some old ground but it also discusses some very current issues and is a great intro for anyone who is trying to learn about the problems with the fracking process. http://www.thee ...

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

environment 360

  • NASA Satellite to Study Effects of Solar Energy an ...
    NASA will launch satellite technology next month that scientists say will provide a clearer understanding of how solar energy and aerosols affect Earth’s climate. Traveling at about 438 miles above the Earth over three years, the Glory satellite will collect data on the Sun’s total energy output and ...
  • Green Energy’s Big Challenge: The Daunting Task o ...
    To shift the global economy from fossil fuels to renewable energy will require the construction of wind, solar, nuclear, and other installations on a vast scale, significantly altering the face of the planet. Can these new forms of energy approach the scale needed to meet the world’s energy demands? ...
  • Interview: A Fierce Advocate For the Yellowstone G ...
    When he returned from Vietnam in 1968, Doug Peacock retreated to the Yellowstone backcountry to “get out of myself” and move beyond the memories that haunted him. It was there he began what would become his life’s work: documenting the grizzly bear on film and in books Doug Peacock and advocatin ...
  • A Fierce Advocate for Grizzlies Sees Warning Signs ...
    Doug Peacock has been tireless defender of the Yellowstone grizzly for decades, but he believes the bear may now be facing its toughest threat yet. In an interview with Yale Environment 360,�Peacock talks about the insect infestation that is destroying a key food source for grizzlies and recalls som ...
  • Groundwater Overuse May Make Arsenic More Common i ...
    A century of exploitation of groundwater supplies has drawn down water tables across Vietnam, making it difficult to avoid water contaminated with arsenic even at deeper depths, according to a new study. In tests of 512 private wells reaching depths of 10 to 50 meters (33 to 164 feet), researchers f ...

Red Ice Creations

  • The Sun Rose 2 Days Early in Greenland
    Residents of a town on the western coast of Greenland may have seen the sun peek over the horizon 48 hours earlier than its usual arrival on Jan. 13, sparking speculation, and disagreements, over possible causes. The town of Ilulissat sits just above the Arctic Circle, meaning its residents had been ...
  • USDA found to be poisoning bird populations, causi ...
    Not all the mysterious bird die-offs that have been witnessed around the globe recently are due to unexplained causes. A recent mass die-off event witnessed in Yankton, South Dakota was traced back to the USDA which admitted to carrying out a mass poisoning of the birds. After hundreds of starlings ...
  • Anarchist Utopia
    What do you picture when you hear the word "anarchy?" Do you picture a mob of angry people smashing windows and looting televisions? Do you picture fire, destruction, and carnage? Do you picture idiots with T-shirts tied around their faces throwing rocks and tipping over cars? If you are like most A ...
  • End of Euro? ... Ireland Prints Own Notes
    Emergency lending from the ECB to banks in Ireland fell in December, the first decline since January 2010, but only because the Irish Central Bank stepped up its help to banks. The Irish Independent learnt last night that the Central Bank of Ireland is financing €51bn of an emergency loan programme ...
  • Health Authorities Want Depression-Causing Drugs A ...
    Mass medication of population part of drive to make people obediently accept “dictatorship without tears,” Aldous Huxley warned in 1962 Berkeley speech. Health authorities are pushing for drugs to be added to public water supplies that cause depression and memory loss, as a new study shows that the ...

Russia Today

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

  • Bizarre Beachcoming: Review of the Codex Seraphini ...
    Dr. Beachcoming, that eccentric collector of all things of an exotic historical nature, reviews The Codex Seraphinianus,  a book written by Luigi Serafini that is purportedly about an alien world complete with language, customs, architecture, flora and fauna. Luigi Serafini, Codex Seraphinianus (num ...
  • Quantum DNA
    It’s been written that photosynthesis might be a quantum process. Now a paper appears that claims DNA itself is a quantum process: A Nobel Prize winning biologist has ignited controversy after publishing details of an experiment in which a fragment of DNA appeared to ‘teleport’ or imprint itself be ...
  • The Paracast: Jerome Clark
    This week’s Paracast with Gene Steinberg and co-host Chris O’Brien features Jerome Clark, author of âThe UFO Encyclopediaâ and âHidden Realms, Lost Civilizations, and Beings from Other Worlds.” After listening to this interview, I was kind of surprised by a researcher in present day ufology who sti ...
  • Tau Zero and Breakthrough Spaceship Propulsion
    In the mainstream, propulsion science does not recognize UFO propulsion technology per se, (Bob Bigelow not withstanding), but there are several theories being bandied about and while interstellar travel just might occur before we become a Kardashev Level One Civilization in around two hundred years ...
  • Inexplicata: Huge UFO in Peru
    On January 4th, 2011 a huge “mothership” UFO was seen hovering above Barrios Altos in Peru. ] Residents of Barrios Altos claim having witnessed what could well be the first UFO sighting of 2011. With the video in hand, one expert has already attested to the authenticity of the homemade recording. T ...

Tippers News

  • Why Did Aggie Boys Buy Sex at the Chicken Ranch?
    The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the Texas A&M football team celebrates a win with a visit to their local brothel, the Chicken Ranch. The Aggie Boys are fSubmitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Two survivors of human trafficking share their sto ...
    She fiddles with her cell phone. In mid conversation, she holds it out, showing off who�s on the screen. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Trip to India inspires Everson woman to help victi ...
    EVERSON - Touched by her own memories of being adopted as an orphan, Sue Ann Heutink took her first overseas venture to help victims of human trafficking. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Free Human Trafficking Victim Sara Kruzan From Lif ...
    Sixteen-year-old human trafficking victim Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison without parole when, in a desperate act to escape captivity, she shot her pimp. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Evidence Refutes Bp's and Fed's Deception
    In August, Truthout conducted soil and water sampling in Pass Christian Harbor, Mississippi; on Grand Isle, Louisiana; and around barrier islands off the coast of Louisiana, in order to test for the presence of oil from BP's Macondo Well. [extremely high]Submitted by Ellyn S. to Environment �|� �No ...

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • HTML and CSS Resources for Teaching
    Every year around this time, I update the resources I use in teaching my advanced online design class. I know there are a million lists like these online. I try to keep mine short, simple and current. Also, I’m not teaching programmers or graphic design majors. My students are journalists. CSS B ...
  • Visual narratives: Empirical data
    From a research study by two scholars at Stanford: In this paper, we investigate the design of narrative visualizations and identify techniques for telling stories with data graphics. We take an empirical approach, analyzing visualizations from online journalism, blogs, instructional videos, and vi ...
  • Teaching HTML and CSS to journalism students
    I’ve been looking at the open-source course materials for Web Design 1, from the WaSP InterACT curriculum project. I think these materials can easily be adapted for use in a journalism curriculum. The idea is to acquaint our students with the building blocks of the Web they use every day. For stude ...
  • A stupid way to handle online video
    Great post from Jerry Lazar, posted Sunday: … a lot of newspapers — perhaps cowed by their own clueless attorneys — similarly do not allow their videos to appear anywhere but on their own Websites, essentially guaranteeing that nobody outside their own geographic area will stumble upon it. This ...
  • Journalists’ Toolkit: My other blog
    Lately I have been spending a lot of time building an online course for our journalism students at the University of Florida. I can’t offer the course to the public because it’s in the university’s distance learning system and open only to enrolled students. However, I have been updating and postin ...

Facing South

  • VOICES: EPA veto of mountaintop removal mine spark ...
    By Matt Wasson, Appalachian Voices In the wake of EPA's veto last week of the largest mountaintop removal mine permit ever proposed in West Virginia, the grandstanding of West Virginia politicians and "sky is falling" rhetoric from the coal industry was not surprising. Every effort to protect st ...
  • Will growing Chinese investment revive the U.S. la ...
    By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest Much of the discussion of Hu Jintao's visit to the United States is focused on China's treatment of its dissidents and its workers, but another issue is becoming increasingly important: the treatment of U.S. workers by the Chinese companies that are rapidly e ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Citizens United by the numbers
    Date on which the U.S. Supreme Court issued the landmark Citizens United decision by a 5-4 vote, ending the prohibition on corporate spending in elections and allowing certain anonymous contributions: 1/21/2010 Amount of spending by outside groups in the 2010 U.S. mid-term elections: $294.2 milli ...
  • One year after Citizens United
    A year ago this week, the Supreme Court made a landmark decision about the role of money in elections -- a ruling so momentous that many are still grappling to take stock of its impact on our political system. The case: Citizens United. The decision: In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court ruled t ...
  • BP's spilled oil is washing up in people
    Today marks nine months since the BP Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig exploded, killing 11 workers and sending millions of gallons of crude oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico. Though the gushing well was capped last July, oil continues to wash ashore along the Gulf Coast. BP's oil is also washin ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Canadian Encyclopedia

  • Trudeau, Pierre Elliott
    Pierre Elliott Trudeau, politician, writer, constitutional lawyer, prime minister of Canada 1968-79 and 1980-84 (b at Montr�al 18 Oct 1919; d at Montr�al 28 Sept 2000). Trudeau was born into a wealthy family, the
  • Vimy Ridge
    Vimy Ridge, battle fought 9-14 April 1917 during WORLD WAR I . The long, low ridge formed a key position linking the Germans' new HINDENBURG LINE to their main trench lines leading north from HILL 70 near Arras, France.
  • New France
    France was a colonial power in North America from the early 16th century, the age of great European discoveries and fishing expeditions, to the early 19th century, when Napol�on Bonaparte sold Louisiana to the US. From
  • Native People: Eastern Woodlands
    Major Language and Tribal GroupsEastern Woodland Indians spoke languages belonging to 2 unrelated families, Iroquoian and Algonquian. At the onset of the historic period, Iroquoians occupied much of southern Ontario, northern
  • Fur Trade
    Fur trade in Canada began as an adjunct to the fishing industry. Early in the 16th century fishermen from northwest Europe were taking rich catches of COD on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland and in the Gulf of St Lawrence (

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I get into the habit of using reuseable ba ...
    Following in the vein of “how can I get into the habit of taking packed lunches?”, I thought it would be useful to gather together your thoughts and tips on getting into the habit of using reusable shopping bags. Because cutting down on plastic carriers is going save the world you know. ;) So what [ ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle completely dry fudge?
    Recycle This regular Anna left a question on the Suggestion page back in APRIL but I somehow missed it until now – sorry Anna! Her question was: How could I use completely dry fudge? I have two big boxes of completely dry Irish fudge that Iâd like to find a use for. The fudge isnât [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle plastic chopping boards ...
    We’ve had an email from Miranda: Can I recycle an old plastic chopping board? It’s stained and scarred and we don’t want to use it any more. As far as I can tell, most plastic chopping boards are made from HDPE (resin code 2), which can be recycled and is quite widely collected – but [...]
  • Last minute Recycling at Christmas links
    Since sharing my favourite upcycled Christmas present ideas and recycled Christmas decoration suggestions, I’ve spotted another few awesome things that I thought I should mention in case you’ve got a few spare hours this afternoon and want to reduce, reuse and recycle! I love, love, love using the m ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle electric toothbrushes?
    We’ve had an email from Georgina: Where can i recycle electric toothbrushes? What about the replaced brushes? Electric toothbrushes are covered under Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations so should be recycled in designated WEEE bins at tips etc. The replacement heads almost c ...

Mondoweiss

  • Gisha: Israeli flotilla inquiry cannot authorize t ...
    In response to today's publication of the interim report of the Turkel Commission to Examine the Maritime Incident of 31 May, 2010, and its conclusion that the naval closure of the Gaza Strip, as well as the actions Israel took to enforce it, are consistent with the provisions of international law, ...
  • My Khan Yunis
    I felt no difference. Although I hadn’t physically been there before, every single street I passed through looked so familiar to me. I felt I belong to a place my feet had never trod and my eyes never seen. I wasn’t a mere visitor and I hated to be treated so. Khan Yunis is my [...]
  • Encounters with Israeli cinema
    Production still from�Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel This post is a consideration of Ella Shohat�s discussion of her book, Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation,�on the occasion of its 25th anniversary at Alwan for the Arts in New York this week.� El ...
  • If Israel continues to quash nonviolent protest wi ...
    Mohammed Khatib and Jonathan Pollak write in the Huffington Post about Israel's ongoing crackdown on the Palestinian nonviolent movement: When Jonathan and his friends first came to Bil'in, we Palestinians were surprised to meet Israelis who believed in our rights. But after we saw these Israelis ...
  • Israelis target Macy Gray with racist diatribes af ...
    The Israeli media is filled with reports about Macy Gray confirming her plans to perform in Tel Aviv in March. This should have been an occasion for Israelis to celebrate their continuing ability to behave as a normal society despite occupying millions of people, holding Gaza under siege, maintainin ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • CIRM taps biotech exec for number two slot
    The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has chosen Ellen Feigal, a biotechnology executive and drug development expert, as its second-in-command. CIRM president Alan Trounson said the agency is to looking to Feigal to help it make good on its promise to translate basic science into ...
  • Collins defends decision to dismantle NIH center
    Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), picked up the telephone and called reporters today, anxious to go public with his enthusiasm for an incipient translational medicine centre at NIH --- and with his defense of the attendant dismantling of the National Center ...
  • Carbon heist derails emissions trading
    The European Commission has partially shut down its carbon-trading market – the world’s largest – after carbon allowances worth up to €30 million were stolen from insecure accounts. The thefts mean more negative press for the European Union’s emissions trading scheme (ETS), a key pillar of effort ...
  • NASA’s last shuttle mission needs some gas money
    No money - no problem: Atlantis back in 2009. Photo:NASA/Jack Pfaller NASA has added one more Space Shuttle flight to the schedule of launches before its veteran fleet is retired, despite not actually having any money at the moment to pay for the mission. Yesterday the agency announced it woul ...
  • Super-absorbent material holds promise for spill c ...
    A new super-absorbent, 'swellable' glass material could prove useful in oil spill cleanups, groundwater remediation, and removal of pollutants such as pesticides and pharmaceutical products from water. The product, called 'Osorb', is a nanostructure material comprised of silicon atoms bound to a ...

new geography

  • Middle America: Problems and Prospects
    Undoubtedly, America is a middle class nation. But are there problems in the middle? It would certainly seem so: reduced employment, income and wealth (more worryingly, reduced employment, income- and wealth-building opportunities); reduced prospects for generational advancement (kids are supposed ...
  • Irvine, by Design
    Different is not necessarily better or worse. I took notice of this upon moving from the Echo Park district of Los Angeles to Irvine. Some acquaintances and casual observers viewed it as a shift from ground zero of hipster chic to the center of conformity. Neither comes close to capturing the trut ...
  • The Next Urban Challenge — And Opportunity
    In the next two years, America�s large cities will face the greatest existential crisis in a generation. Municipal bonds are in the tank, having just suffered the worst quarterly performance in more than 16 years, a sign of flagging interest in urban debt. Things may get worse. The website Business ...
  • Agglomeration Vs. Isolation for Science Based Econ ...
    Earlier this month President Obama signed the reauthorization of the COMPETES Act, which provides federal funding for science initiatives aimed at enhancing economic competitiveness. In addition to shoring up agencies like the National Science Foundation, the bill called on the Department of Commerc ...
  • Rise of the Hans
    When Chinese President Hu Jintao comes to Washington this week, there aren't likely to be many surprises: Hu and Barack Obama will probably keep their conversation to a fairly regulated script, focusing on trade and North Korea and offering the expected viewpoints on both. But seen from a different ...

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Cryptogon

  • A Self-Sufficient System of Farming Is Increasing ...
    “Now my rice growing is simply sowing seed and spreading straw, but it has taken me more than thirty years to reach this simplicity.” —Masanobu Fukuoka Via: Star Advertiser: Farmer Samson Delos Reyes reached into his bluejeans pocket to grab a phone call from a buyer and ended up smiling but shaking ...
  • Situation at Cairo Airport Involving Gold and Cash ...
    Readers capable of doing high confidence translations from Arabic to English are welcome to submit them. So far, there is no English language source for this. Here’s the Google machine translation to English. Via: Google Translate / egypt.com: Cairo Airport Authority announced today the state of eme ...
  • 10,000 Cattle Dead In Vietnam: Cows, Buffalo Part ...
    Via: Huffington Post: In the latest of a string of mass animal deaths, 10,000 cows and buffalo have died in Vietnam. Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development confirmed the news this week that more than 10,000 cows and buffalos died nationwide due to harsh weather conditions. Cattle ha ...
  • Cryptogon.net: Cryptogon News Network
    If you read and enjoy Cryptogon, there’s a good chance that you have information that would interest me, and other Cryptogon readers. The Cryptogon News Network is an informal way for you to share that information. This is a dedicated, Cryptogon themed social news site that isn’t subject to the same ...
  • Spain Plans Partial Nationalization of Savings Ban ...
    Via: Reuters: Spain plans a partial state takeover of its weakest savings banks as it seeks to reassure investors a rescue will not weigh on its deficit. A source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday the government would force debt-laden regional savings banks to become conventional banks ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 14 Eye Opening Statistics Which Reveal Just How Dr ...
    Most Americans have become so accustomed to the "new normal" of continual economic decline that they don't even remember how good things were just a few short years ago.  Back in 2007, unemployment was very low, good jobs were much easier to get, far fewer Americans were living in p ...
  • 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, be ...
  • Instead Of Using This Period Of Economic Stability ...
    The fact that the official U.S. government unemployment rate has dipped slightly is good news.  However, it is not the "economic turning point" that Barack Obama and others are proclaiming it to be.  Rather, what we are in right now is "the calm before the storm".  The massive amoun ...
  • Which Of The Currencies Of The World Is Going To C ...
    Last year was an absolutely fascinating time for world currency markets.  The yen, the dollar and the euro all took their turns in the spotlight.  Each experienced wild swings at various times, but the overall theme that we saw was that faith in paper currencies is dying.  The bigge ...
  • In The Future You May Not Be Able To Provide The B ...
    Today, millions of American families are extremely stressed out because they are working as hard as they can and yet they find at the end of the month they still haven't been able to pay all of the bills.  Unfortunately, things are only going to get rougher in the years ahead.  The ...

Desertification

  • Ways to conserve water with the help of cheap and ...
    Read at : http://mediaglobal.org/article/2011-01-22/making_every_drop_count_water_usage_in_the_developing_world Making every drop count: water usage in the Developing World By Ian Potts UN Water reports that by 2025, developing countries will increase their water consumption by 50 percent and 75 per ...
  • “Seeds for Food” : successfully collec ...
    “Seeds for Food” started in August 2007 (http://www.seedsforfood.org). We are collecting seeds of (sub)tropical vegetables and fruits and send these free seeds to development projects, where smallholder farmers can’t afford commercial seeds. The success of this humanitarian action is still … Continu ...
  • Honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos L.), a highly ...
    Honey locust is a hardy, very adaptable and fast growing tree species.  It grows with limited irrigation in dry areas, with a preference for full sun.  It tolerates a range of soil and temperature conditions, even light frost. Honey locust … Continue reading →
  • New photos of family gardens in the Sahara desert ...
    Family garden project in the refugee camps of the Saharawis (RASD) near Tindouf (S.W. Algeria).  Gardens doing remarkably well in the Sahara desert. These new photos, taken in August and December 2010 in the camp of Ausserd, show once again … Continue reading →
  • Climate Report Warns of Food Gap (Live Science)
    Read at : http://www.livescience.com/environment/global-warming-impacting-crops-food-production.html Dire Harvest: Climate Report Warns of Food Gap By Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer If emissions of greenhouse gases continue to increase unchecked, they could push the Earth’s surface temperatu ...

The Paper Trail

  • Conservative Think Tank’s Plan Would Limit S ...
    The American Enterprise Institute offered a plan today to eliminate the “bubble-inducing distortion” it blames for the recent financial crisis – mortgage underwriters Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The assessment stands at odds with the Center’s recent FactWatch which reviewed government data and concl ...
  • Pearl Project Analyzed Network Behind Crime With S ...
    When the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists set out to identify all of the players involved in Daniel Pearl's kidnapping and murder, it turned to a company – unfamiliar to most Americans but well-known to U.S. intelligence – to help analyze and understand the intricate network of ...
  • Customers Close Accounts to Protest Wall Street, A ...
    The death blow for Michael Dalrymple’s Phoenix eco-friendly building supply company was the credit freeze that paralyzed the banking system and the nation in the fall of 2008.
  • On Capitol Hill, the More Things Change …
    It didn’t take long for some new House Republicans to decide that inside-the-Beltway wisdom is essential after all. Many have hired tried-and-true Capitol Hill veterans as their chiefs of staff.
  • TARP Watchdog Sounds Alarm About “Too Big To ...
    For U.S. banks, bigger is still better despite the financial reform law’s attempt to rein in “too big to fail” institutions, a government watchdog says.

backofthebook.ca

  • Mike Farnworth: gay matters
    By Dave Brindle Is BC ready for a story asking if it's ready for a gay leader? It's the story that Mike Farnworth, a leading contender to replace the deposed Carole James as leader of BC’s NDP, knew would be told before he announced his candidacy. A story that I, along with ...
  • The guy’s job
    By David Bitonti This morning, as I completed picking up after my Boston Terrier in the back yard, I looked down at my plastic-wrapped hand and thought, “Why am I doing this?” I only had to remember the conversation — more like protest — with my wife the last time pooper-scooping ...
  • Stephen Harper and the Kingdom of the Numb
    Our regular Politics blogger, Alison@Creekside, is under the weather. While we eagerly await her return, we offer you posts from some of our other favourite Canadian political bloggers, beginning with: Montreal Simon Gawd. What an awful day. Work was hell. It was rainy and slushy. The brand ne ...
  • Gervais’ Gay Joke Goes Awry
    By Rachel Krueger I don’t think Ricky Gervais is a homophobe.  But in his Golden Globes opening monologue he delivered a right zinger that was entirely predicated on "gay" being an insult.  Referring to Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor in I Love You, Phillip Morris, he quipped,  ‘Two heterosexual act ...
  • Faggots don’t like censorship
    By Dave Brindle We want our/We want our/We want our faggot in the lyrics. Is it censorship or sensitive to our times that the old biddies on the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council have designated the Dire Straits '80s classic "Money for Nothing" unacceptable for play on Canadian radio becaus ...

Worldnews

  • Ancelotti eyes decisive moment
    Bolton, United Kingdom – Carlo Ancelotti believes Chelsea's trip to face Bolton on Monday could be the decisive moment in his side's campaign. Ancelotti is confident his team have moved on from the depressing run that saw them drop from the top of the Premier League to fifth place, raising doub ...
  • Oprah Winfrey promises to reveal family secre ...
    OPRAH Winfrey has staged many a family reunion on her TV talk show. But on tonight's episode it will be about her. Winfrey told viewers on Thursday that she will have a reunion of her own on The Oprah Winfrey Show. She wouldn't say with whom - only that it involves something she's learned about ...
  • Real Madrid Pondering Bid For Chelsea Striker ...
    Real Madrid's striker hunt may lead them to swoop for Chelsea's Didier Drogba, reports suggest. By Paul Macdonald Share Share Find the best odds and bet on the Premier League. Real Madrid will test Chelsea’s resolve with an offer for striker Didier Drogba before the end of the current transfer ...
  • Australian Open 2011 Pictures January 22
    Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland hits a backhand return to Simona Halep of Romania during their Women's Singles third round match at the Australian Open Grand Slam tennis tournament in Melbourne, Australia, 22 January 2011. Radwanska beats Halep in two sets. EPA/RUNGROJ YONGRIT Marcos Baghdatis fr ...
  • Tennis' Bryan brothers laugh it up
    Posted �|�Comment �|�Recommend | | | By Rohan Sullivan, Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia Warner Bros., meet the Bryan brothers. The world's best men's doubles pair, American twins Mike and Bob Bryan, have been making mini-movies from behind the scenes of international tennis and posting t ...

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Common Dreams

  • 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

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Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Advancing the clean energy partnership between the ...
    President Hu Jintao concluded his visit to the United States Friday, after meeting with President Obama and other top government and business leaders in Washington, D.C., and Chicago.� Among the many issues on the agenda for these two leaders, strengthening cooperation on climate change and clean en ...
  • First Look: New Video of Tesla S Car
    Tesla S Car, Alpha Tesla has released a video of the “Alpha Phase Model S Car,” with this accompanying text:
  • Fueling the World's Growth
    Several articles led me to what is apparently BP's first-ever public long-term energy forecast, "BP Energy Outlook 2030", which was released earlier this week.
  • Masdar's far-reaching green footpring
    Masdar, the clean energy company in oil-rich Abu Dhabi, is best known for building a green city in the Arabian desert. But while zero-carbon Masdar City has captured the lion's share of attention--here's my tour--Masdar as a company is having an impact far from home by investing in clean technolo ...
  • USDA Announces Loan Guarantees For Three Cellulosi ...
    Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that biofuels and biomass energy projects across America have been selected for funding to continue the Administration's support for the development of renewable fuels. Vilsack highlighted the various investments USDA made since he laid out a broad vision ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

  • Economic Turmoil in 2011
    by Stephen Lendman Wall Street predicts blue skies. Economic recovery will continue. Stocks will deliver double-digit gains. On January 14, the Wall Street Journal's Economic Forecast Survey headlined, "Economists Optimistic on Growth," expecting in 2011: -- 3.3% GDP growth; -- unemploym ...
  • Druze Leader Jumblatt Backs Hezbollah
    by Stephen Lendman Two recent articles discussed Lebanon's present turmoil in detail, accessed through the following links: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/01/turmoil-in-lebanon.html http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/01/heightened-tensions-after-hariri.html Conditions there remai ...
  • No witnesses and not in the record
    David H Marshall In 2011 the needed for treatment experimentation evidence is still not in a subject’s medical record with the names of all in-service witnesses lost. The U.S. Government’s then 50 year known, “experiments that were designed to harm” [6] were a dereliction of duty in direct disob ...
  • London’s Foreign Office might as well reloca ...
    Stuart Littlewood What our Foreign Office minister said on his recent visit to Israel and Occupied Palestine shows more clearly than ever why the struggle in the Holy Land extends all the way to our own front door here in the UK. The new minister in charge of Middle East affairs, Alistair Burt, wa ...
  • Don't Be A Sellout Macy Gray
    eileen fleming In 2010, Macy Gray, recorded her fifth album, The Sellout. On 17 January 2010, she wrote: “I'm booked for 2 shows in TelAviv. I'm getting alot of letters from activists urging/begging me to boycott by NOT performing in protest of Apartheid against the Palestinians. What the Israe ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • Gotta Love Those Christians And Their Unconditiona ...
    Tax Payer Supported Christian Shelter Denies Entry To Gays & Lesbians | The Gay Manifesto Emergency response plans in communities around the country often call on christian organizations to help distribute food and provide shelter in times of crisis. Sadly these christian relief groups more often th ...
  • Idaho GOP: Your Friends In Government
    Idaho GOP gets ready to nullify health care reform | AP After leading the nation last year in passing a law to sue the federal government over the health care overhaul, Idaho’s Republican-dominated Legislature now plans to use an obscure 18th century doctrine to declare President Barack Obama’s sig ...
  • Batgirl Demands Equal Pay
    And who could blame her? More…
  • Striking Back at the US for Justice- Relatives of ...
    SPIEGEL online| By Hasnain Kazim in Islamabad-Almost every day, people in the Pakistani region of Waziristan are killed or seriously injured by drone attacks carried out by the CIA. Now a group of victims’ relatives is standing up to Washington — by suing the US government. An eye and both legs: Tha ...
  • The Magic Trip: The Merry Pranksters Movie
    Sundance 2011: MAGIC TRIP Review | Collider.com Did you know that people in the 60s dropped acid and it was a really popular time for the psychedelic drug? I did and most likely you did too. Magic Trip follows the road trip of author Ken Kesey and his “Merry Band of Pranksters” as they [...]

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • "I Shall Not Hate": Gaza Doctor Izzeldin Abuelaish ...
    AMY GOODMAN: Yesterday marked the second anniversary of the end of Israel’s assault on Gaza. Dubbed "Operation Cast Lead," up to 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed in the 22-day assault between December 28th, 2008 and January 18th, 2009. More than half the Palestinians killed were civil ...
  • Fox News: The No. 1 Name in Murder Fantasies
    Bill O'Reilly's recent "joke" about decapitating Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank was only the latest example of a demented Fox News culture that permits on-air personalities to fantasize about assassination and other forms of violence against those deemed enemies of the station, its personali ...
  • Robert Greenwald on the Ed Show -- January 6, 2011 ...
  • The Tyranny of Defense Inc.
    American politics is typically a grimy business of horses traded and pork delivered. Political speech, for its part, tends to be formulaic and eminently forgettable. Yet on occasion, a politician will transcend circumstance and bear witness to some lasting truth: George Washington in his Farewell Ad ...
  • War Is a Drug
    If, as 2011 begins, you want to peer into the future, enter my time machine, strap yourself in, and head for the past, that laboratory for all developments of our moment and beyond.Just as 2010 ended, the American military�s urge to surge resurfaced in a significant way.� It seems that �leaders� in ...

Salon

  • America's treatment of detainees
    Amnesty International has written a letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates objecting to the conditions of Bradley Manning's detention, which was first reported here.  The group denounces the oppressive conditions under which Manning is being held as "unnecessarily harsh and punitive," and furth ...
  • Why I'm glad Keith Olbermann is gone
    If there was some strange parallel universe in which Keith Olbermann and I were members of Congress, I suspect we would vote together about 99 percent of the time. But when the "Countdown" host announced his abrupt departure from MSNBC on Friday night, I felt only relief.
  • Prosecution rests in immigrant beating trial
    Federal prosecutors have rested their case against three former Pennsylvania police officers charged with orchestrating a cover-up of the beating death of an illegal immigrant.
  • House GOP's next target: The Clean Air Act
    With the repeal of "ObamaCare" under their belts, House Republicans have their eye and axe set on another bastion of liberal policy-making:�the Clean Air Act of 1970.
  • Obama: Open markets lead to jobs

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Advancing the clean energy partnership between the ...
    President Hu Jintao concluded his visit to the United States Friday, after meeting with President Obama and other top government and business leaders in Washington, D.C., and Chicago.� Among the many issues on the agenda for these two leaders, strengthening cooperation on climate change and clean en ...
  • First Look: New Video of Tesla S Car
    Tesla S Car, Alpha Tesla has released a video of the “Alpha Phase Model S Car,” with this accompanying text:
  • Fueling the World's Growth
    Several articles led me to what is apparently BP's first-ever public long-term energy forecast, "BP Energy Outlook 2030", which was released earlier this week.
  • Masdar's far-reaching green footpring
    Masdar, the clean energy company in oil-rich Abu Dhabi, is best known for building a green city in the Arabian desert. But while zero-carbon Masdar City has captured the lion's share of attention--here's my tour--Masdar as a company is having an impact far from home by investing in clean technolo ...
  • USDA Announces Loan Guarantees For Three Cellulosi ...
    Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that biofuels and biomass energy projects across America have been selected for funding to continue the Administration's support for the development of renewable fuels. Vilsack highlighted the various investments USDA made since he laid out a broad vision ...

EU Times

  • In Tunisia, Ben Ali was ‘big brother’
    One Tunisian recounts his run-ins with the party of President Zine el Abidine ben Ali, which asked him repeatedly to become a ‘citizen watcher’ and inform on friends, family and co-workers. Reporting from Tunis, Tunisia â He remembers the form. You filled it out to become a “citizen watcher” for the ...
  • Rep. Cohen: Ventura’s Show Promotes Terrorism
    After making a comment comparing establishment Republicans opposed to Obamacare to Nazi propagandist Goebbels, Tennessee Democrat Rep. Steve Cohen went on CIA operative Anderson Cooper’s CNN show to defend himself. During the interview, Cohen took a swipe at Jesse Ventura and his popular TruTV show. ...
  • 2 out of 3 new jobs given to migrants
    Two in every three new UK jobs went to foreign-born workers, shock figures showed yesterday. The statistic emerged on the day Britain’s jobless total hit 2.5 million, including a record 951,000 16 to 24-year-olds. The Office for National Statistics figures intensified fears that unemployment will so ...
  • Mom Loses Her 6 Kids Over Game Addiction, Filthy H ...
    Six children were removed from their Uniontown home after investigators found them living in filth and animal waste. Police said their mother was addicted to online computer games, so she neglected her children and didnât clean the house for years. The children’s stepfather, James Boord, spoke with ...
  • EU brainwashing denies the roots of our civilisati ...
    Filled with barbaric hatred and envy, Islamic extremists constantly plot the downfall of our civilisation. Tragically for us they have an ally in their lethal cause: the elite of the European Union. Just like Muslim zealots, the ideological fanatics of Brussels have nothing but contempt for our Chri ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Tony Blair at British Iraq Inquiry
    C-SPAN For a second time former British Prime Minister Tony Blair testified before the Committee of Inquiry on the Iraq War. January 2010, Mr. Blair testified before the five-member group on his role during the lead up to the war, military preparedness, and his relationship with President George W. ...
  • Facebook on Snaptu : Mobile App for Low-End Phones
    Today Facebook has team up in partnership with Snaptu, announced the launch of a new âFacebook for Feature Phones appâ specially for low-end phones. This new application brings smartphone-like usability to over 2,500 different types of mobile devices, including around 80% of the devices sold worldw ...
  • Packers, Bears gird for biggest test ever with Sup ...
    By Jim Corbett, USA TODAY The league’s longest, most storied rivalry dating to 1921 awaits its most dramatic chapter Sunday when the divisional-rival Packers and Bears meet 3 p.m. ET in the NFC championship game . The 182nd renewal of Packers vs. … The 182nd renewal of Packers vs. Bears marks the f ...
  • A Simple African Wishlist to Larry Page of Google
    Hi Larry , I must confess to you that it came to me as a little shock that you'd taken over the reigns of governance back at Mountain View . Of course it's your baby here we are talking about- that huge gorilla of a company that you and your friend founded a little over a decade ago. You see Larry, ...
  • Dent To Serve As Honorary Bears Captain
    LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) - The Chicago Bears hope Richard Dent can help them shuffle to the Super Bowl. The legendary defensive end and MVP of Super Bowl XX will serve as an honorary captain when the Bears host the rival Green Bay Packers in the NFC championship game Sunday. Dent holds the franchise ...

Groklaw

  • What the departures of Apple, Google CEOs mean for ...
    I ran that question by analyst Wes Miller, a former Microsoft MSN and Windows Core program manager who now tracks the company for research firm Directions on Microsoft. His take, in brief: Schmidt's departure could give Google a different focus that could impact Microsoft in some ways. But Jobs' lea ...
  • Google submits documentation for VP8 video codec t ...
    Shortly before announcing its decision to remove H.264 support for HTML5 video from Chrome, Google's codec developers submitted an Internet Draft (I-D) of its VP8 Data Format and Decoding Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) with a request for comments. - Heise
  • With Page as CEO, Open Source is stronger than eve ...
    Who, after hearing about Android, the Linux-based smartphone and tablet operating system for the first time decided that Google didn't want to just support it, but buy Android and keep it open? That was Page. When I spoke with Chris DiBona, Google's open-source program manager, a few years back whe ...
  • 9-11 Oral Histories Saved and Shared via Smart Pho ...
    Broadcastr, a Brooklyn-based mobile start-up, has struck an agreement with National September 11 Memorial and Museum to make 2,000 oral histories of first-responders available via smart phone and online. When Broadcastr leaves beta In February, it will welcome the collection of additional cell-re ...
  • Sidekick settlement: Gift cards, downloads and a P ...
    Brace yourselves, Sidekick users. Here's your justice. "Defendants Danger, T-Mobile, and Microsoft will make available, during a Customer Appreciation Week, up to twelve free items for download from the Sidekick Download Catalog at no expense to class members. The twelve items will include (a) an a ...

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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. ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

First Truths

  • The Pretense of "Austerity"
    For C4SS, I write: The truth of state capitalism, though, is that it harnesses and exploits the labor and aptitude of the many to fatten a parasitic few. Working people lay the foundational infrastructure of state-capitalism, allowing its top-heavy imbalances to carry on in the face of countervailin ...
  • The People's Republic of Crony Capitalism
    My latest for the Center for a Stateless Society: States the world over are acting as guarantors of entrenched commercial power, promoting their economic interventions with the language of fairness and efficiency. The new rules that the China Banking Regulatory Commission is expected to promulgate a ...
  • No Work for the Weary, Part II
    My latest commentary for the Center for a Stateless Society: But if the state exerts its monopoly on the use of force to create special advantages for certain "competitors," and all of the supposed "choices" we have in the economic system are predicated on those advantages, then there is only the si ...
  • The Empire Drones On
    I commented for C4SS "on the secrecy surrounding the U.S. military's drone program and the number of innocents it kills."
  • Green Rising: The Dangers of Political Environment ...
    Today, my criticism of political environmentalism�was published as a Feature Article by C4SS.

Media Co-Op

  • Byron Sonne: behind bars since the G20 Summit
    TVO Search Engine podcast on forgotten detainee Toronto Media Co-op has been asked for more stories on the G20 defendant who has been bars since his arrest shortly before the G20 Summit. We encourage people to submit more content on his plight ...
  • City Council avoids historic height hearing
    "Emergency" resolution leaves social housing advocates speechless   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                   VANCOUVER - City council should have listened to the 50 plus speakers about its proposed condo tower plan today.  "The ...
  • Birthing Bureaucracy in N.S.
    To view photo essay, click on any of the photos above. About 200 people from across the province rallied in Halifax this afternoon, demanding access to midwifery services. The province’s current legislation limits the number of midwives that can legally practice in N.S, and confines midwives to thre ...
  • Le procès du Défenseur de la Terre, John Graham (t ...
    Graham maintient son innocence en dépit du verdict qui plaide coupable. Il fait maintenant face à la prison à vie   par freejohngraham_info →Histoires du Dominion version originale : http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/story/trial-land-defender-john-graham/5530   Le 10 décembre un jury du Dakota du S ...
  • Hundreds gather to form University of Toronto Gene ...
    TORONTO, January 20   On Wednesday, January 19, 2011, over two hundred students, workers, faculty, and community members packed a room to form a General Assembly that challenges the legitimacy of the University of Toronto’s administration and Governing Council. They shared accounts of their attem ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Wikileaks (my latest theory)
    David Seaton's News LinksAfter my waltzing around ever so long with trying to figure out who's behind Wikileaks, the penny finally dropped. It is so glaringly obvious to me now, that I'm surprised it never occurred to me before. The good news is that it isn't Israel.(Hillary) Clinton likened online ...
  • Wikileaks or the loneliness of Private Manning
    For your eyes only �David Seaton's News LinksThe diplomatic corps of any sovereign country is an instrument of the state.� It does what the head of state and his/her government decide that it should do. Even if there were a total regime change in the USA, one of any political color you lik ...
  • Wikileaks: Getting serious for a moment
    David Seaton's News LinksFor the time being the USA is the major pillar of stability of some sort that the world has. Like it or not, that is a fact. Anything that affects that stability causes extremely unpredictable outcomes, blowback and damage everywhere. I am certainly not "pro status quo", but ...
  • The unbearable levity of Wikileaks and the right t ...
    David Seaton's News LinksI received the following comment on my last post:So previously, you did not think that globalization and instant communication tools were radiically changing the world?� It wasn't until wikileaks that you realized this was happening? Helloooo?�� To which I am tempted to re ...
  • Wikileaks: America's senior moment
    So this is what the eclipsing of American power looks like, with the disgorging of so much of its sensitive diplomatic correspondence in one fell swoop. Arguably not since Berlin fell to the Red Army in 1945 has there been a compromise of state secrets as breathtaking as that brought about by WikiL ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • If You Eat Processed Meats, Are You Risking Your L ...
    A review of more than 7,000 clinical studies examining the connection between diet and cancer came to a stark conclusion: No one should eat processed meats. The World Cancer Research Fund came to the following conclusion: "There is strong evidence that ... processed meats are causes of bowel can ...
  • The Toxin So Dangerous - Even CDC Now Warns Agains ...
    A new study has found that the protective shield fluoride forms on teeth is up to 100 times thinner than previously believed. This raises questions about how this renowned cavity-fighter really works. It has long been believed that fluoride changes the main mineral in tooth enamel, hydroxyapatite, ...
  • The 6 Worst Brands of Bottled Water You Can Buy
    The Environmental Working Group analyzed the company websites and product labels of over 170 varieties of bottled water to see if the companies disclosed information on where water came from, how the water was treated, and whether the results of tests to ensure purity were revealed. The researcher ...
  • My Blackberry is Not Working!
    Ronnie Corbett and Harry Enfield star in this sketch from The One Ronnie.
  • Most Americans are Delusional About Healthy Eating
    In a recent poll of more than 1,200 American adults, close to 90 percent said their diet was either "somewhat," "very," or "extremely" healthy. However, 43 percent of the survey respondents said they drank at least one sugary soda or sweetened drink every day. A third also said they were at a healt ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Editorial: Traffic-ticket quotas aren't all bad
    Officers in the traffic squad working alone in cars are expected to write up at least 16 tickets per shift while motorcycle cops are assigned to nab a minimum of 18 violators. Those not specifically on traffic duty are assigned to issue between two and four tickets a day. As a result of the ...
  • Traffic-ticket quotas aren't all bad
    Officers in the traffic squad working alone in cars are expected to write up at least 16 tickets per shift while motorcycle cops are assigned to nab a minimum of 18 violators. Those not specifically on traffic duty are assigned to issue between two and four tickets a day. As a result of the ...
  • A shameful violation of religious freedom
    You have to wonder what the powers that be in Quebec City were thinking when they invited a delegation of Sikhs to make a presentation to a National Assembly committee this week, only to have them turned away.
  • SPCA goes a cut too far
    It might be that there is an overabundance of pit bulls in Verdun, but the SPCA goes too far in doing something about it when it neuters animals without their owners' consent.
  • Einstein was no deist
    Re: "Science and religion need each other" (Letters, Jan 14).

Food World Order

  • city of houston shuts down two radioactive water w ...
    from khou: A radioactive water well that is controlled by the City of Houston, and that serves residents of Jersey Village, is no longer being used, according to the communications director for Houston Mayor Annise Parker. On Monday, a KHOU-TV investigation revealed Jersey Village water well #3 was ...
  • 1/20 binge & purge: bailout pizza & gm eggplant
    domino's gets $12m bailout as experts warn of food riots* africa's growing consumer class lures multinationals* gm eggplant trials suspended in philippines* think composting stinks? here's a fresher idea* grassroots 'truth-in-labeling" campaign* video: the more americans go on food st ...
  • usda cracks down on honey laundering
    from allgov: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is continuing its pursuit of illegal, and sometimes dangerous, imports of foreign honey into the United States. After the government in 2002 imposed a tariff on honey imported from China, the world’s largest producer of the product, Chinese busi ...
  • maryland orchard to pasteurize cider after e. coli ...
    from barfblog: In October, 1996, 16-month-old Anna Gimmestad of Denver drank Smoothie juice manufactured by Odwalla Inc. of Half Moon Bay, Calif. She died several weeks later; 64 others became ill in several western U.S. states and British Columbia after drinking the same juices, which contained un ...
  • 1/13 binge & purge: human cheese & toxic waste®
    1m pigs buried alive in s. korea foot & mouth outbreak* lower corn & soybean output sends prices surging* nanofoods discussion group gears up in uk* would you try a slice of human cheese?* don't eat the toxic waste® brand nuclear sludge® chew bars!

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Manchester Truth to host BP Population Reduction t ...
    Rufmouth presents 1st speaker in 3 yrs! Ian R Crane, ex oil industry exec spills the beans in amazing talk ‘BP, population reduction and the end of an Age’ be there! Friends Meeting House 3.33pm start Sunday 12th September 2010. See www.IanRCrane.co.uk or contact daved@wfmradio.org for more infor ...
  • Heart Attacks And Drinking Hot or Warm Water
    This is a very good article… Not only about the warm water with your meal, but about Heart Attacks. The Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea with their meals for generations, not cold water, it is time we adopt their drinking habit especially while eating. For those who like to drink cold water, this ...
  • Transcendence: The True Awakening From The Matrix
  • Jim Corr: March from Wood Quay Dublin to the GPO a ...
    ‘I am asking that the Irish people unite, as our forefathers did, and take to the streets at 11am Saturday 27th from Wood Quay Dublin, to voice our anger and concern over the actions of our politicians and what is happening to Ireland.’ -  Jim Corr
  • Announcing “This Is Disclosure” confer ...
    After the success of the 2nd Annual Leeds Exopolitics Expo in August 2010 the organisers of the UKs only UFO Disclosure & Exopolitics conference announced in September 2010 that the next conference was going to be bigger and better! 2011 sees us bring the global attention on UFO Disclosure and Exop ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 14 Eye Opening Statistics Which Reveal Just How Dr ...
    Most Americans have become so accustomed to the "new normal" of continual economic decline that they don't even remember how good things were just a few short years ago.  Back in 2007, unemployment was very low, good jobs were much easier to get, far fewer Americans were living in p ...
  • 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, be ...
  • Instead Of Using This Period Of Economic Stability ...
    The fact that the official U.S. government unemployment rate has dipped slightly is good news.  However, it is not the "economic turning point" that Barack Obama and others are proclaiming it to be.  Rather, what we are in right now is "the calm before the storm".  The massive amoun ...
  • Which Of The Currencies Of The World Is Going To C ...
    Last year was an absolutely fascinating time for world currency markets.  The yen, the dollar and the euro all took their turns in the spotlight.  Each experienced wild swings at various times, but the overall theme that we saw was that faith in paper currencies is dying.  The bigge ...
  • In The Future You May Not Be Able To Provide The B ...
    Today, millions of American families are extremely stressed out because they are working as hard as they can and yet they find at the end of the month they still haven't been able to pay all of the bills.  Unfortunately, things are only going to get rougher in the years ahead.  The ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Old and Sad people vote LibLabCon
    The people of Oldham & Saddleworth have voted for one of the three people from the one party state that is the LibLabCon. Voting for one of the three faces of the same old one party state nation... that'll change things. Turnout was just 48% - so the majority of people voted for nobody at all. ...
  • Quote of the Day: 'F-F-F-F-Off, Monsieur François ...
    "Let’s leave aside François Fillon’s attempts to drag Britain into someone else’s troubles, and instead focus on his main contention. Can you spot the flaw in his logic? European integration is failing, so we need more European integration! My go-kart has crashed, so I’m going to drive an articulate ...
  • Poor Sunderland. Your football team is doomed.
    Just a quick sympathy message for supporters of Sunderland Football Club. Apparently, David Miliband is in line to become the club's Vice Chairman. Taking his track record as Foreign Secretary and his actions regarding the European Union into account... ...this probably means that he's comi ...
  • Quote of the Day: The 'stating the bleeding obviou ...
    "...is the BBC biased? In my view, ‘bias’ is too blunt a word to describe the subtleties of the ­pervading culture. The better word is a ‘mindset’. At the core of the BBC, in its very DNA, is a way of thinking that is firmly of the Left." - Former BBC News frontman Peter Sissons gets the bad tast ...
  • The great EU cover-up of fraud and corruption scan ...
    If the Daily Telegraph or Daily Express have any sense, they'll make this the new MPs expenses scandal which should lead to our restoration of sovereignty eventually... Maarten Engwirdla, the Dutch former Member of the European Court of Auditors, has blown the whistle in an interview in De Volksk ...

Facing South

  • VOICES: EPA veto of mountaintop removal mine spark ...
    By Matt Wasson, Appalachian Voices In the wake of EPA's veto last week of the largest mountaintop removal mine permit ever proposed in West Virginia, the grandstanding of West Virginia politicians and "sky is falling" rhetoric from the coal industry was not surprising. Every effort to protect st ...
  • Will growing Chinese investment revive the U.S. la ...
    By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest Much of the discussion of Hu Jintao's visit to the United States is focused on China's treatment of its dissidents and its workers, but another issue is becoming increasingly important: the treatment of U.S. workers by the Chinese companies that are rapidly e ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Citizens United by the numbers
    Date on which the U.S. Supreme Court issued the landmark Citizens United decision by a 5-4 vote, ending the prohibition on corporate spending in elections and allowing certain anonymous contributions: 1/21/2010 Amount of spending by outside groups in the 2010 U.S. mid-term elections: $294.2 milli ...
  • One year after Citizens United
    A year ago this week, the Supreme Court made a landmark decision about the role of money in elections -- a ruling so momentous that many are still grappling to take stock of its impact on our political system. The case: Citizens United. The decision: In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court ruled t ...
  • BP's spilled oil is washing up in people
    Today marks nine months since the BP Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig exploded, killing 11 workers and sending millions of gallons of crude oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico. Though the gushing well was capped last July, oil continues to wash ashore along the Gulf Coast. BP's oil is also washin ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Judge in Ghailani Case Appears Ready to Back Conviction At a hearing in federal court in New York Thursday, Judge Lewis Kaplan appeared skeptical of defense arguments that the sole conviction against Ahmed Ghailani in connection with the U.S. Embassy … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Report: White House Preparing for New Military Commission Cases at Guantanamo The New York Times reports that the Obama administration will increase the use of military commissions and is preparing to lift an order imposed on the day Obama took … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Supreme Court Declines to Hear al-Adahi Appeal The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an appeal by Guantanamo detainee Mohammed al-Adahi, who was ordered freed by a federal judge in 2009 on the grounds that the government lacked sufficient … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    NYT Report Offers Window into Defense Strategy in Ghailani Trial The New York Times offers an in-depth portrait Tuesday of the strategy defense attorneys used during the trial of Ahmed Ghailani, the first Guantanamo detainee to be tried in a … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Yemen Sentences al-Awlaki to Ten Years in Absentia U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was sentenced in absentia by a Yemeni court to ten years in prison Monday for âtaking part in an armed group and incitement to kill foreigners,â according to … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Create Bootable Live USB Drives of Linux Using UNe ...
    You have nice and slick Startup Disk Creator app by default in Ubuntu for creating bootable live USB drives easily. Now you can create a bootable live USB device in Windows also using UNetBootin. You can install UNetBootin in Ubuntu and other flavors of Linux too. Bootable Live USB Drives Using ...
  • Top 12 Useful Opera Extensions You Might Want to T ...
    The latest Opera 11 beta release introduced a slew of new features which included the support for third party extensions. There is nothing new about it though, since Firefox had addons support like for ever. �And Opera gradually became the most awesome browser that nobody uses. Let's just hope that ...
  • XPlanetFX - Incredible Tool for Rendering Real Tim ...
    XPlanetFX is an incredible tool for rendering�high quality�real time earth wallpaper in Ubuntu. XplanetFX comes with a handy GTK interface which makes things a whole lot simpler. I never knew such a tool even existed until one of our readers mentioned us about it. Real Time Earth Wallpaper in U ...
  • Blender 2.56 Beta Released[Ubuntu PPA]
    Blender is an incredible open source cross platform suite of tools for 3D creation. And if you are unaware of the capabilities of Blender, you should watch these stunning Blender made short films and animations you probably haven't seen ever before. Blender 2.56 beta is the fifth beta release of Ble ...
  • Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal - First Impressions
    At the time of writing this article, Ubuntu 11.04 codenamed "Natty Narwhal" is still very much in its nascent stages of development. I really wanted to take it for a spin and write about my first hand impressions on latest build Ubuntu Natty. I installed Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Alpha 1 in my USB ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • CHINA’S BOOM IS SET TO CONTINUE WHILE THE US ...
    Société Générale fears China has lost control over its booming economy and risks a bust over the next year. But is this fear justified given the fact that China prints its money without creating debt, placing its economy on a different foundation from the USA and Europe and so facing a very differen ...
  • WHY THE NEW ECONOMICS ADVISOR TO THE GERMAN GOVERN ...
    Lars Feld, an economics professor who has just been appointed to as an advisor to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government, has called for a referendum over an EU proposal for increasing the euro stability fund. Feld also said a restructurng of Greek and Irish debt was needed. http://www.spiegel ...
  • Crisis of leadership in the German armed forces?
    A cadet falls to her death on a German navy training ship; letters to soldiers in Afghanistan are systematically opened; a soldier is shot by a comrade while playing with guns. The country’s armed forces ombudsman sees a crisis of leadership in the German armed forces led by Defence Minister Karl Th ...
  • “Angry TDs plot ‘delusional’ Cow ...
    Angry TDs plot ‘delusional’ Cowen’s downfall in public Prospect of wipeout at polls brings fresh revolt By Fiach Kelly Political Correspondent, Irish Independent Friday January 21 2011 FIANNA Fail was on the verge of tearing itself apart last night over the cabinet reshuffle fiasco, with the prospec ...
  • 200 cows dead in Wisconsin the latest in mass anim ...
    January 19th, 2011 7:09 pm ET 200 cows dead in Wisconsin the latest in mass animal deaths More disturbing news of a large number of animals found dead come out of Wisconsin after a farmer reported that he found over 200 cows dead in one of his pastures last week.   The Portage County police [...]

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 ...

Veterans Today

  • United States Air Force Reponds in Defense of Chri ...
    Updated: The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) and its allies waged a new line of attacks towards Lt. Gen. Michael Gould, the Superintendent of the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA), demanding that the self-proclaimed “Lordâs Army” soldier, Clebe, not be allowed to proselytize Academy ca ...
  • GORDON DUFF AND ROBERT ROSEBROCK: GANGSTERS, VETE ...
    WHY IS GENERAL SHENSEKI UNABLE TO REMOVE CRIMINALS FROM THE VA? By Gordon Duff and Robert Rosebrock for Veterans Today Last year, Robert Rosebrock, advocate for homeless veterans and VT staffer, was arrested in Los Angeles on a series of Federal charges.  Rosebrock was accused of violating convolute ...
  • ALAN HART: OBAMA AND ISRAEL, A QUESTION OF COURAG ...
    Would the isolation of America persuade Obama not to veto? By Alan Hart STAFF WRITER Despite strong U.S. opposition, a proposed resolution condemning Israeli settlements on the occupied West Bank did make it to the UN Security Council. It was not put to a vote and no vote is expected for some time, ...
  • Chaplain Kathie: When they can’t see the en ...
    When they can’t see the enemy By Chaplain Kathie STAFF WRITER “We don’t know who we’re fighting over there, who’s friendly and who isn’t,” he said. “They’re always watching us. We’re basically fighting blind.” This was said by a wounded Marine after battle in Sangin Afghanistan. It is the nature of ...
  • WEBSTER TARPLEY: WIKILEAKS A “COGNITIVE INF ...
    Nihilists of The World Unite: Wikileaks Is The “Cognitive Infiltration” Operation Demanded by Cass Sunstein By Webster Tarpley at www.tarpleynet.com Awareness is growing around the world that the Wikileaks-Julian Assange theater of the absurd is radically inauthentic â a psyop. Wikileaks and its imp ...

electric politics

  • From Boom to Bust and Back Again
    It's no accident that the White House won't regulate the banks. In our plutocratic system the White House is their wholly owned and fully brain-washed subsidiary, the only question being how best to pretend otherwise. To discuss various matters involving American and world high finance I turned onc ...
  • Inflection Points
    What's the attraction of trying to remake the world so that everybody becomes like us? My answer is it's the logical extension of a terrifying, still very much alive American system of slavery but whatever your favorite explanation, the project itself is doomed. When will we ever learn? To talk abo ...
  • Trench Warfare
    It's not just morally unconscionable that a tiny minority of Americans have almost all the money, it's a terrible thing in policy terms, especially if what you want is democracy. A plutocracy — let's not kid ourselves about this — is basically a slave system. To talk about how we got into our prese ...
  • Priorities
    To be honest, the shrimp fishermen don't matter. The Gulf coast tourist traps don't matter. The economic effects of the spill. Don't matter. It's not about the money. What matters is that we're destroying the environment, killing countless innocent creatures. I keep hoping things may not be quite a ...
  • Regime Change Politics
    We tell ourselves that humans are sentient animals. Yet here in the U.S. our politics seem rather more directed by delusion, or denial, than reason. Collectively, we not only do not know that our political system does not produce democratic results, we pretend the results are democratic no matter h ...

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

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

k2p blog

  • Global cooling indicators are increasing
    IPCC climate projections are no longer credible. Solar and ocean circulation effects have been grossly understimated by climate models. That global cooling is upon us seems more and more likely and cooling for the next 2 or 3 decades will show the current Landscheidt minimum as being comparable to t ...
  • Cold Fusion: Another fraud or a breakthrough?
    Another cold fusion claim. Italian scientists Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi of the University of Bologna announced that they developed a cold fusion device capable of producing 12,400 W of heat power with an input of just 400 W.
  • “Set a thief to catch a thief”?
    A researcher found guilty of scientific misconduct has switched to another University and has now published a study about plagiarism!
  • How many ways to add up to any number? Sequence of ...
    Emory mathematician Ken Ono and colleagues will be announcing results today that include a finite, algebraic formula for partition numbers thanks to discovering that the sequence of partitions is fractal.
  • Indian Environment Ministry challenges IPCC and CO ...
    The Indian Environment ministry has sponsored a paper which says that human induced global warming is much less than what the R K Pachauri headed IPCC had said.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • After Failing To Buy Groupon, Google To Launch A C ...
    As the time-honored adage goes, if at first you don't succeed at buying a company in a multi-billion dollar deal, try to out perform it with a competing service of your own. Such is the tack Google is apparently taking against Groupon. After Google failed to acquire Groupon with a $6-billion offer ...
  • Outgoing Google CEO Schmidt's Creepy Greatest Hits
    Google CEO Eric Schmidt is handing the company's reins over to co-founder Larry Page in April, and to commemorate the event, The Wall Street Journal has compiled a greatest hits collection of Schmidt quotes. No, he didn't say "don't be evil." He did, however, say that the Google has a policy to "ge ...
  • Buy And Sell Unused Groupons (And Other Daily Deal ...
    So your BFF work friend cc'd you on that super cool Groupon and you bought in with everyone else and then a little bit down the road, regret sits in. Maybe you remembered you hate fondue. Maybe the restaurant was closed for rats when you got there. Maybe you realized you would much rather have the ...
  • E-Trade, Borders And Frontier May Vanish This Year
    Get ready to say goodbye to the E-Trade baby and Frontier Airlines. According to 24/7 Wall Street, the two businesses are among their 10 picks for companies that will not survive the year. Others that may not be long for this world: Sara Lee, Gateway and Office Depot. E-Trade is vulnerable because ...
  • The Blueberries In Your Food Could Be Fake
    Here's something to choke on. The "blueberries" inside that muffin or cereal you love so much might not actually have ever been blueberries. Instead, they are a composite of sugars and starches that have been dyed blue. Check the label. If it says "blueberry flavored chrunchlets," for instance, tho ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Teresa Chambers Case Highlights Limitations of Whi ...
    Last week, the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) ordered the National Park Service to reinstate whistleblower Teresa Chambers as Chief of the U.S. Park Police, as well as to reimburse her for back pay and legal costs. Her case garnered national attention when she was removed by the Bush adm ...
  • Orange County Register: Which Mystery Senator Kill ...
    By Wikimedia user Markus Schweiss Orange County Register: Which Mystery Senator Killed Whistleblower Bill? This article details how the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) – a bill that would have strengthened protections for federal employees – was killed by one senator’s decis ...
  • Justice Department Leakers of Classified Info. Get ...
    Three months ago, journalist Michael Isikoff noted the disturbing "Double Standard" in White House Leak Inquiries.  But now it's not just the Executive Branch.  Josh Gerstein of Politico just published an article on how a judge ruled that the Justice Department can keep secret names of its own law ...
  • U.N. Investigations Chief Subject of Whistleblower ...
    Associated Press: U.N. Investigations Chief Under Investigation Michael Dudley, a U.N. official responsible for investigating internal misconduct, is himself the subject of an investigation involving two whistleblowers. According to complaints filed with GAP, the two whistleblowers assert they ...
  • Swiss 'WikiLeaks' Banker on Trial; Congress Looks ...
    By Wikimedia user Elwood J. Blues BBC News: Swiss Banker Linked to Wikileaks on Trial Over Secrecy A former Swiss banker faced a one-day hearing today in Zurich for allegedly leaking client data, as well as making threats to his former employer. Although the banker handed over additional ...

UK Progressive

  • Expanding Gun Rights
    Another day, another shooting. In the aftermath of the Tucson shootings, with the sole exception of Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), whose husband was killed and son injured in a 1993 shooting, only one gun control bill has been introduced. Hers! 534 Democratic and Republicant members, where are you? ...
  • Guantanamo As Prison and Courtroom: Is a White Hou ...
    by Dafna Linzer, ProPublica.org Last August, President Obama’s national security advisers, including Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, met in the White House situation room to decide whether and how to go forward with trials for s ...
  • Michelle Bachmann Calls Healthcare Reform the Crow ...
    Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) brings the crazy better than most. There are days when we wonder who is the lead Tea Party crazy, her or Sarah Palin for most outrageous statement.
  • Lieberman and Shriver: A Tale of Two Democrats
    by Denis G. Campbell Joe Lieberman and Sargent Shriver’s names sat above each other on my Google News Reader. Sarge, a visionary gentleman and leader who lived in the shadow of the Kennedy’s, ran for Vice President and created the Peace Corps, died at 95. Lieberman is a turncoat, back-stabbing, self ...
  • Republican/Tea Party Media Messaging Part 2: Never ...
    Welcome to the second in an ongoing series of ways the Republican/Tea Party sticks their fingers in their ears and says… “la-la-la-la, I’m not listening, whilst never moving off THEIR talking points. Part 1 was about the ‘don’tstoptalkingever’ thing. Part 2 is about giving YOUR answer just not to t ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Chomsky’s prize hyperbole: GOP win could kill us a ...
    It’s another sign of the ongoing implosion among the carbonistas: the nutter comments come out as reality hits their big dream. Noam Chomsky — linguistics professor, proves that a professorship doesn’t stop you saying silly things, and manages to spin a “vote for the conservatives” as a ticket to de ...
  • Science is played by politicians
    When an expert on small mammals announces that sea levels will rise by 100m, that’s national news. When an expert on hydrology announces that thousands of homes will be flooded sooner or later in a major capital city, it’s buried, and stays buried for four years, and even after it’s leaked, it still ...
  • Vision of The Annointed
    Thomas Sowell wrote Vision of the Anointed in 1995, and didn’t mention climate change. Yet such is the insight of the man that what he wrote was prescient, pertinent and 100% applicable 15 years later. Our battle today follows a similar pattern to  battles over many other social policies. Sowell di ...
  • While the Cat is away-Version 2
    CAT (away) + Mice = PLAY Jo is away from the computer for some fun and relaxation with her family. Jo being “off-line” leaves the controls of this blog in the hands of volunteer moderators. This time while the Cat is away: Many regular posters here use web links to make their point(s). If those [... ...
  • The Warmest Year Antidotes
    What do you say when the Big PR bell is rung? You know the litany: “2010 was the warmest since measuring began, and the previous decade was also the warmest decade on record.” (eg The AGE) Sure, and the world has been warming for 300 years, long before the industrial revolution. The trend hasn’t cha ...

ReNew America

  • Mourning in America
    (Joan Swirsky, RA analyst) - Our entire country, indeed the world, mourns the victims of the savage attack in Tucson that left six dead, including an esteemed federal judge and beautiful nine-year-old Christina Taylor Green; 14 seriously wounded; and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords fighting for her life aft ...
  • The Philadelphia Horror
    (Michelle Malkin) - Let's give the "climate of hate" rhetoric a rest for a moment. It's time to talk about the climate of death, in which the abortion industry thrives unchecked. Dehumanizing rhetoric, rationalizing language and a callous disregard for life have numbed America to its monstrous conse ...
  • Limbaugh demands Obama release birth certificate
    (NewsMax) - Top-rated talk radio host Rush Limbaugh on Friday questioned why new Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie has not gotten support from the White House in his efforts to resolve the doubts of so-called "birthers" about Barack Obama's place of birth...
  • Keith Olbermann leaving MSNBC, ends 'Countdown'
    (Associated Press) - Keith Olbermann is leaving MSNBC and has announced that Friday's "Countdown" show will be his last. In a very abrupt exit typical of his often unpredictable behavior, Olbermann did not explain why he was leaving...
  • Old media now asking where is birth certificate
    (WorldNetDaily) - An interview with newly elected Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie that addressed Barack Obama's presidential eligibility has prompted two opposing interpretations by legacy media...

Truth Offering

  • Original Music Created for TruthOffering.com by Ch ...
    Talented singer and musician Chris Phenom has created two tracks for TruthOffering.com, and we want to share them with you. Chris's tracks feature some amazing lyrics that relate directly to what we're trying to get at here at TruthOffering.com: the Truth! Listen to what he has to say, and check out ...
  • Levi's: All-American or Neo-Communist
    It seems that everywhere I go recently, I see these massive Levi's billboards along the side of the road. At first, I thought nothing of them. After all, they're just billboards, right? Plus Levi's is an all-American company, right? Visually, these ads are quite striking; mostly black and white, and ...
  • US Falls In Level of Overall Economic Freedom -- D ...
    The Heritage Foundation just released its annual Economic Freedom List. The list "measures ten components of economic freedom, assigning a grade in each using a scale from 0 to 100, where 100 represents the maximum freedom. The ten component scores are then averaged to give an overall economic freed ...
  • Did J.P. Morgan Sink the Titanic!?
    1st Row: JP Morgan, Joseph Bruce Ismay, John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim. 2nd Row: The Federal Reserve and the TitanicAs youngsters, we're all told the infamous story of the Titanic, the supposedly indestructible ship that sunk on its maiden voyage. We're all familiar with the story: the shi ...
  • Our Diet Is Killing Our DNA!
    Few people are aware of this simple fact: what you eat directly impacts your DNA. This likely seems like a strange new concept to most, considering we're all brought up with such an incorrect understanding of human health and wellness. Five years back, I was no different -- well, I always cared abou ...

2012 Blog

  • Sea Rise Ark / Irish Giant Gene / Betelgeuse
    Experts are saying the sea levels will rise by 13 feet in the next thousand years. This is the first time such a long-range forecast has been made, and presumably the authors will never see their work disproved. I presume this work, which focuses on climate change, does not consider that the long-te ...
  • Doomsday Driver
    A woman who claimed the world was going to end in an apocalyptic earthquake Friday was arrested in the Marin Headlands on allegations of abducting four people off the streets of Berkeley and San Francisco, a federal spokeswoman said. Lark Ann Freeman, 36, of Fairfield was booked into Marin County Ja ...
  • George Lucas: 2012 Believer
    Just in, via a news report quoting Seth Rogen on a meeting he had with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg: He recalls, “George Lucas sits down and seriously proceeds to talk for around 25 minutes about how he thinks the world is gonna end in the year 2012, like, for real. He thinks it.  “He’s [...] ...
  • The Sun… and us
    A giant eruption (aka CME) on the far side of the Sun has some 2012ers bracing for the worst. Odds are everything will be OK, but this is one of those weeks in which the SH might hit TF. And we’ve just had a 7.0 earthquake in the Loyalty Islands. Might be nothing – but [...] Related posts:Global W ...
  • Tampa Airport and The Magnetic Pole Shift
    This story has caused a big stir online, leading many people to jump to the conclusion that the magnetic poles are shifting, and doom is near. The runways have large numbers visible to the pilots when they land the planes. The numbers are used for the pilots to line up their compasses for a safe [.. ...

Facing South

  • VOICES: EPA veto of mountaintop removal mine spark ...
    By Matt Wasson, Appalachian Voices In the wake of EPA's veto last week of the largest mountaintop removal mine permit ever proposed in West Virginia, the grandstanding of West Virginia politicians and "sky is falling" rhetoric from the coal industry was not surprising. Every effort to protect st ...
  • Will growing Chinese investment revive the U.S. la ...
    By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest Much of the discussion of Hu Jintao's visit to the United States is focused on China's treatment of its dissidents and its workers, but another issue is becoming increasingly important: the treatment of U.S. workers by the Chinese companies that are rapidly e ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Citizens United by the numbers
    Date on which the U.S. Supreme Court issued the landmark Citizens United decision by a 5-4 vote, ending the prohibition on corporate spending in elections and allowing certain anonymous contributions: 1/21/2010 Amount of spending by outside groups in the 2010 U.S. mid-term elections: $294.2 milli ...
  • One year after Citizens United
    A year ago this week, the Supreme Court made a landmark decision about the role of money in elections -- a ruling so momentous that many are still grappling to take stock of its impact on our political system. The case: Citizens United. The decision: In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court ruled t ...
  • BP's spilled oil is washing up in people
    Today marks nine months since the BP Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig exploded, killing 11 workers and sending millions of gallons of crude oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico. Though the gushing well was capped last July, oil continues to wash ashore along the Gulf Coast. BP's oil is also washin ...

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Russia In The Mirror Of World Policy
    By Tatyana Tallerova (Russia) Last year Russia not only managed to establish and consolidate its positions at the international arena, but also set the foundation for the further growth of the state authority in 2011. The most important event was the creation of the Customs Eurasian Economic Union o ...
  • Dmitry Medvedev’s Baptism in the Middle East
    By Elena Suponina (Russia) The New Year began with a remarkable visit by Dmitry Medvedev to the Middle East. Russia’s President visited Jordan and the Palestinian Authority, and his trip coincided with the Christian holiday of Epiphany, which is celebrated on January 18-19. John the Baptist baptized ...
  • Russia And The Oil-Gas Diplomacy In Arctics (I)
    By Vadim Truhachev (Russia) Dem. Edward Markey — Chair Deputy of the House Committee for the Natural Resources — claimed that agreement between Rosneft and BP may threaten American national security. According to his opinion, stock exchange may complicate the procedure of fee recovery from the Engli ...
  • India-Russia Relations: Rekindling The Past
    By Rupakjyoti Borah (India) Russian President Dmitry Medvedev landed in New Delhi on December 21, trying to give a push to the bilateral ties between Russia and India. His visit marked the end of a series of high-profile visits to India by the top leadership of all the five permanent members of the ...
  • Central Asia: Top 10 Developments in 2010
    By Alexander Shustov (Russia) The present list of top 10 developments in Central Asia in 2010 was compiled on the basis of the author’s assessment of their impact on the region’s political and socioeconomic landscape. In any case, the developments surveyed below will likely have enduring repercussio ...

BlogHer

  • Biological Evolution Protects Ovulating Women from ...
    Well, I am glad to learn from Slate that, from an evolutionary perspective, I am more likely to be raped because I don't ovulate and thus am a wuss who judges character poorly. See, according to ev ...
  • May I Have this Contra Dance?
    In a time not so long ago, there were group folk dances that people went to, where you could go to have a great time dancing in synchrony with friends, family and strangers.� Dancing nowadays mostly consists of going to loud and dark clubs a ...
  • Incorporate a Serving of Lentils into Your Diet
    January is BlogHer's Month of Little Steps to Health & Fitness, and we want you to share your favorite easy health tip! Click here to see how to play along. And check out all the tips so far in the Month of Little Steps to Health & Fitness se ...
  • Day 15: I Love Stone Soup
    We're counting down to National Soup Swap Day with soup ideas every day for two weeks! Come back each day to see more soup -- or click here to find all the soups in the series. And sign up for the newsletter to get soup in your inbox! **** ...
  • BlogHer Network Member News, Jan 21st: Karen Walro ...
    Happy Friday, everyone! Today in BlogHer Network Member News --Karen Walrond, author of The Beauty of Different, Chookooloonks, and BlogHer.com's Own Your Beauty will be hosting a meetup and book signing this Sunday at the Lucid Jazz Lounge ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Raw Milk Dairy Farm Fights Back and Wins!
    Armend Bechard defended himself during his appeal after being criminally charged over the sale of raw milk. The judge rules there is no case! With all the troubles that raw milk producers have had recently ...
  • 7 Foods So Unsafe Even Farmers Won’t Eat Them
    We’ve all been told that there are foods that should be avoided, things like high fructose corn syrup and white bread, that cause serious issues from weight gain to cancer. But have you taken the ...
  • Kentucky Farm Freedom Act: Proposed Bill Will Keep ...
    S.510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, was signed January 4th and is poised to hand the FDA unlimited power over the food supply and create costs for food producers that will drown the already sinking ...
  • GMOs: Myths, Falsehoods, Superstitions
    The history of GMO’s in India is a sorted tale of corporate aggression and destitute farmers so in debt from season after season of  failed crops that there has been a suicide epidemic as people ...
  • President Obama Signs Into Law Sweeping Food Safet ...
    On Tuesday, President Obama signed one of the most expansive food regulation bills in living memory, giving the Food and Drug Administration sweeping regulation powers over food production and distribution. The billion-dollar Food Safety Modernization Act ...

Live News Wire

  • Editorial: As The Country Mourned, Tucson Needed T ...
    Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was about ...
  • Police Made Visits To Loughner Home Before Shootin ...
    The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to authoritie ...
  • Criminal Charges Filed Against Congresswoman’s Sho ...
    Newly-released court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a tha ...
  • “Unbelievable Tragedy:” Congresswoman Shot By Youn ...
    At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery store ...
  • Queensland Facing Flood Of “Biblical” Proportions
    The worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this week. ...

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, Jan. 21, 2011
    Gazette photo by Chris Dorst In the wake of last week’s veto of the Spruce Mine permit and this week’s big “Rally for Coal” at the West Virginia Capitol, we’ve had a good discussion going on here on Coal Tattoo about what this all means for the long-term issues surrounding the future of coal and th ...
  • The Spruce Mine Veto and the ‘Rally for Coal ...
    AP photo by Jeff Gentner We have our work cut out for us in finding a prudent and profitable middle ground â but we will not reach it by using fear mongering, grandstanding and outrage as a strategy. Sen. Robert C. Byrd, Dec. 3, 2009 I was re-reading those words this morning as I considered yesterd ...
  • ‘Rally for Coal’ draws 1,000 to W.Va. ...
    Sen. Joe Manchin, right, and West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, far left, attend a rally for coal Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011 at the Capitol in Charleston, W.Va. More than 1,000 people crowded round the well of the state Capitol’s rotunda Thursday to rally in response to a recent action by the U.S. E ...
  • Rep. Miller renews call for mine safety reforms
    Here’s a statement issued last evening by the office of Rep. George Miller, D-Calif.: In light of information released today by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) called on Congress to move on legislation immediately that would close loopholes in fe ...
  • Manchin to introduce bill to block EPA permit veto ...
    This just in from the office of West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin: Washington, D.C. – Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) has delivered a letter to his Senate colleagues urging them to join with him and cosponsor legislation to oppose last week’s unprecedented regulatory actions by the Environmental Protection ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Guy Captures Millions of HTTP Headers and Analyzes ...
    First of all, yes, HTTP headers form something like a long tail: In particular, hapax legomena (one-offs) make up over half of the headers found. I expected this. Unfortunately for me, however, a lot of the really interesting stuff is over on that long flat section of the long tail. Which means I sp ...
  • Guillaume Nery Underwater Base Jump
    via youtube.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsJan-Ove Waldner ServesEuler’s DiskThe Parrot AR.DroneThe GiftI’m Playing a Bit of SC2
  • Communicating Optimally in Email
    The fundamental source of poor email style is the practice of quoting the entire message you’re replying to. If that’s what you do, then it doesn’t matter whether you put your response at the top or bottom. In fact, if you’re going to quote the entire message, top-posting probably is better. But bot ...
  • Pew Pew Pew
    via martianchronicles.files.wordpress.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsSelecting a TypefaceThe Burden of ProofAnother TimeThis is a ProblemWhat your email address says about your computer skills | The Oatmeal
  • Heat-sensitive Wallapaper | Baekdal Design
    Turn up the heat and your wallpaper starts to blossom. Here with the radiator is off……and now on. via baekdal.com Compelling. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsAir Umbrella | Yanko DesignPhenomenal Logo Design | Spartan Golf ClubThe Posterous BookmarkletI Want to Go W ...

Fitwatch

  • Met’s published photos – info for stud ...
    Once again the Met have released a set of images of people they want in connection with the student protests last Thursday. If you or one of your mates is one of them, you’ll be worried and unsure about what to do. Before you do anything, read this first. The dilemma is this - if [...]
  • Oppose intelligence led policing
    Aaron Porter, the NUS leader who has consistently condemned violence and property damage on demonstrations, has now joined ex cop Brian Paddick in calling for the Met to improve its intelligence gathering. The best case scenario is Mr Porter is ignorant and should talk to a few of the activists and ...
  • Police refuse to make public the role of undercove ...
    Once again the story of Mark Stone / Kennedy has hit the press, this time after he has apparently offered to give evidence on behalf of the defendants in the Ratcliffe trial. The trial was ultimately dropped by the prosecution after the police declined to provide disclosure relating to the former un ...
  • Student Demonstrator Goes Down
    Edward Woollard, who pled guilty to violent disorder for throwing a fire extinguisher off the Tory Party HQ during anti-cuts demonstrations, has been sent down for 2 years and 8 months. This begs an answer to the question: what exactly is the merit of pleading Guilty in the first place? With the sta ...
  • Lyn Watson named as Leeds undercover cop
    Yesterday saw further revelations about undercover police activity in the protest movement. This time it was a woman, operating in Leeds. The Guardian published details of her activities as Officer A. But she was named on Indymedia as Lyn Watson. Indymedia have also published this picture of her. Ly ...
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