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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • CHINA: Children Cry Out for Protection
    A growing number of reports in China's state media have thrust the issue of child abuse into the national spotlight. Many young parents and teachers today have shifting attitudes about corporal punishment, but incidents of abuse are being reported across the country. Affected children are vi ...
  • PHILIPPINES: ‘Wanted, Full-Time Mothers'
    It's definitely not your typical job advertisement. "Wanted: Mothers; must be mature, strong and stable, self-confident, humorous and know how to cook; must have a positive and cheerful attitude towards life; must be willing to work as a full-time mother for the long term."
  • Q&A: ‘Wherever There was Injustice, William ...
    More than 70 years ago, an elderly Aboriginal man led the only known privately- organized demonstration against Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass), the mass anti-Jewish pogrom across Germany and Austria.
  • MIDEAST: Hamas Guarding Women's Health for the Wro ...
    When the Hamas government of Gaza imposed restrictions on shisha (water pipe) smoking several months ago, it wasn't for health reasons – even though the habit is pervasive in the densely populated strip of land. Rather, the ban targeted only women – and it is being widely ignored despite the ...
  • Report Condemns Widespread Tolerance for Torturers
    The international community - from Western authorities to Southern powers - lacks courage and hides behind "soft diplomacy" in confronting human rights abusers, a leading rights group accuses in a 649-page world report released Monday.

Scoop - NZ

  • Stuxnet, .. a New Cyberwar Era? [Updated]
    Remember the years-long controversy about whether the U.S. or the Israel would bomb Iran's nuclear program? It appears they just did -- virtually. And if
  • Maximus: The US Sponsored Jihadist Menace
    Much of our home-grown terrorism results from the government’s careful nurturing, clearly seen in the many cases since 9-11. Not “stings” using “informants, but incitement (or even entrapment) by agents provocateurs. It’s yielded a full harvest: a fearful and tame public. Here are some of the st ...
  • The Caligulan court of Silvio Berlusconi
    At a certain point, a woman at one of Silvio Berlusconi's parties says, a girl started flashing her bottom and the evening took off;.
  • The power of bearing witness | Greenpeace New Zeal ...
    A dictionary definition of 'bearing witness' reads: to show by your existence that something is true. This seems to me to be only part of the story. Bearing witness is one of the founding principles of Greenpeace, up there with Direct Action. Unlike direct action however it doesn't rely on direct ...
  • The Palestine Papers - more than 1,600 internal do ...
    Al Jazeera has been given unhindered access to the largest-ever leak of confidential documents related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. There are nearly 1,700 files, thousands of pages of diplomatic correspondence detailing the inner workings of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. These docu ...

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Disruptive Snow Hitting from Arkansas to the Ohio ...
    The corridor from Oklahoma, Arkansas and Tennessee to the Ohio Valley has become the target of the latest cross-country snowstorm that will eventually head to the Northeast. Places in the path of today's snow and plunging temperatures are sure to face disruptions to travel and daily routine ...
  • US: Snow for the Frigid Midwest, Great Lakes
    The Great Lakes and Midwest will not only have to endure brutal cold through this weekend, but also snow from the lake-effect snow machine and an Alberta clipper. Lake-effect snow is already under way across the western Great Lakes, and will continue to develop downwind of lakes Erie and Onta ...
  • Manifest Haiti: Monsanto's Destiny
    Let It Burn "A fabulous Easter gift," commented Monsanto Director of Development Initiatives Elizabeth Vancil. Nearly 60,000 seed sacks of hybrid corn seeds and other vegetable seeds were donated to post-earthquake Haiti by Monsanto. In observance of World Environment Day, June 4, 2010, roughly 10, ...
  • U.S. can't link accused Army private to Assange
    U.S. military officials tell NBC News that investigators have been unable to make any direct connection between a jailed army private suspected with leaking secret documents and Julian Assange, founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. The officials say that while investigators have determin ...
  • Mexican police: Gunmen open fire at soccer game, 7 ...
    A group of heavily armed men opened fire at a soccer match between two local teams in western Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, killing seven people and wounding two others, according to a municipal police spokesman. The soccer field is at a community center opened four months ago as part of a program to de ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Why don't we just sew a swastika onto the flag now ...
    Let's get it over with. Stephen Harper is just plain dangerous. He has not just cowed his own MPs, senators and the civil service; he has been allowed to run free by the so-called independent media. The only reason Harper gets away with his antics is because the Fourth Estate is far too accommodati ...
  • Saturday Morning Cartoons.
    Good morning, darlings -- after the last few weeks, I think this is exactly what everyone needs.
  • Fascinating . . .
    STRANGE SISTERS is a curious site, owned by Ryan Richardson, devoted to the artwork found on the covers of "Lesbian" paperbacks published in the 50s and 60s. A marvelously tacky collection. Like ol' H.L. Mencken observed, nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.With v ...
  • Fraud as a business model . . .
    WASHINGTON'S BLOG is a relatively new blog, wherein contributors anonymously post articles of some probity without being flamed personally. Probably a Good Idea. Why? Well, the article, "Government Says No to Helping States and Main Street, While Continuing to Throw Trillions at the Giant Banks" is ...
  • Here is where we juxtapose
    Fictional Mayberry or Toronto?

Media Matters for America

  • Beck Obsession: The "Riots In Greece" Are Coming " ...
    Glenn Beck lashed out at The New York Times for highlighting recent Beck-inspired death threats made against Francis Fox Piven, rather than reporting on "strikes and riots" in Greece. This is just the latest example of Beck's ceaseless fearmongering that violent rioting in Greece will be replicated ...
  • O'Reilly Ludicrously Claims That China And India A ...
    Bill O'Reilly dismissed calls for public investment in infrastructure by falsely claiming that China and India are "not investing" in their own infrastructures. In reality, both countries are dedicating enormous sums to infrastructure overhauls.O'Reilly: China And India Are "Not Investing" In Infra ...
  • Beck Calls For U.S. Chief Of Protocol To Be Fired ...
    Glenn Beck�called�for Ambassador Capricia Penavic Marshall, the current Chief of Protocol of the United States, to be fired, citing completely manufactured controversies:�the "Mao Christmas tree ornament debacle" in 2009�and�Chinese pianist Lang Lang's rendition of an "anti-American song" at�a�Whit ...
  • Right-Wing Media Invent Controversy Over Pianist's ...
    Right-wing media have seized on the performance of a Chinese song by pianist Lang Lang at a recent state dinner as an "anti-American" slight against the U.S. In reality, Lang said he picked the song "for no other reason but for the beauty of its melody," and one expert on Chinese culture called it ...
  • "Thank God For Paul Ryan": The Glenn Beck-Approved ...
    Glenn Beck has repeatedly expressed his adoration of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), whom the Republican Party has selected to deliver its response to the State of the Union. Beck has called him "one of the good guys" and told him, "I love you," as Ryan detailed his efforts to "indict the entire vision of p ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Guardian Watch: More Reprehensible Journalism
    Just following up on the Guardian's distorted and inflammatory claims. The paper reports that Saeb Erekat recognized the principle of Israel "as a Jewish state," and that, correspondingly, Tzipi Livni pressed for the transfer of Israeli Arab citizens to Palestine, in effect, adopting the principle " ...
  • Al Jazeera Leaks: The Guardian Is Irresponsible
    I am busily crafting a piece on the Olmert-Abbas negotiations, having interviewed both leaders on Friday, and at length. Much more about this soon. But I can't forebear saying that the Guardian's spin on the talks, based on documents leaked by Al Jazeera, is outrageous. The Guardian has seemed be ...
  • The Al Jazeera Blockbuster Exposes The Lies
    Al Jazeera's stunning revelations about Israeli-Palestinian negotiations have different meanings for Israelis, Americans and for Palestinians. The bottom line is that, despite the assurances it gave to the Palestinian people that it was driving a hard bargain with the Israelis, the Palestinian A ...
  • The Real Battle With China: Goldman Sachs versus A ...
    When China's President Hu Jintao came for his state visit last week the White House press corps completely ignored almost all the substantive issues raised by Mr. Hu's visit. The domestic policy issues raised by this trip were altogether invisible in the reporting in major news outlets. The news ...
  • The State of the Union: A Surprising Preview
    Rotwang's Islamic fundamentalist spies in the White House relayed the following advance transcript of President Barack Hussein Obama's scheduled speech tomorrow. Workers and Peasants of America! I bring you greetings from the executive committee of the bourgeoisie! This introduction to my remarks ...

TruthOut

  • Deregulation
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  • Ukraine's Assault on a Free Press
    In Ukraine, where media diversity is often defined by which powerful oligarch controls which TV station, one network, TVi -- known for its independent investigative style -- is under intense legal pressure, with its owner not part of Ukraine's power circles. TVi faces a court hearing on Tuesday ove ...
  • Progressive Girl's Voices at Sundance: My Love for ...
    Yesterday was the first day at Sundance film festival for us young journalists, and we already had our first interview. Last afternoon we spoke with the lovely Tiffany Shlain, director of the film Connected. read more
  • Because It's Time to End the Afghanistan War... (V ...
    With a war in its 10th year,�it's time to end it. With violence in Afghanistan still worsening a year after the military push into Marjah--the start of what some call "Obama's War"--it's clear military solutions won't work. It's time to end the war. read more
  • News in Brief: Rahm Emanuel Thrown Off Ballot in A ...
    Rahm Emanuel Thrown Off Ballot in Appellate Court Decision read more

Planetsave

  • Global Weirding & Climate Change Science News
    Some of the top climate science news from around (other than what we’ve already covered): Must-read Hansen and Sato paper: We are at a climate tipping point that, once crossed, enables multi-meter sea level rise this century Climate change is likely to be the predominant scientific, economic, politi ...
  • Climate/Environmental/Animal Activism & Green Livi ...
    Top climate, environmental, and animal activism stories from around, in my opinion: Industry Group Portrays West Virginia Pro-Coal Rally As a ‘Call to Arms’ There was plenty of early industry backlash to EPA’s historic decision last week to veto the permit for Arch Coal’s planned mega-mine in Appala ...
  • Global Weirding/Climate Change/Clean Energy Politi ...
    Some of the best global weirding politics stories from around, in my opinion: Should Obama Omit Any Mention of Climate Change or Global Warming in the State of the Union Address? “What topics should be in Obama’s State of the Union address?” That is the question posed to well-known thought leaders b ...
  • Letter to Obama: Clean Air Act Must be Defended
    The Clean Air Act is getting attacked by leading polluters and some members of Congress. Over a couple dozen scientific, environmental, and progressive organizations told Obama in a letter sent to him on Friday that he needs to make sure to stand up for this critical piece of U.S. legislation. Here’ ...
  • Climate Change, for Many Species, Means a Dead End ...
    KINANGOP, Kenya — Simon Joakim Kiiru remembers a time not long ago when familiar birdsongs filled the air here and life was correlated with bird sightings. His lush, well-tended homestead is in the highlands next to the Aberdare National Park, one of the premier birding destinations in the world. Wh ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • PLUNDER: THE CRIME OF OUR TIME - Economy
    'Plunder: The Crime of Our Time' is a hard-hitting investigative film by Danny Schechter. The "News Dissector" explores how the financial crisis was built on a foundation of criminal activity uncovering the connection be ...
  • Egyptian opposition warns of an “explosion of the ...
    24 January 2011 Since the beginning of the revolutionary turmoil in Tunisia, there have been continuous warnings in the media and by politicians of the danger that the protests could spread to other countries in the region or the entire Arab world. Above all, Egypt stands at the centre of...
  • More evidence of US war crimes - Crime and Punishm ...
    Editor's Note: The ACLU states that 25-30 of the 190 deaths that occurred under custody of the U.S. government at Guantanamo Bay were "unjustifiable homicides". In our view, every single one of them qualify for this charge because their imprisonment and the war that brought them there was unjustifie ...
  • The Doomsday Project, Deep Events, and the Shrinki ...
    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 all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That...
  • Barack Obama: As Bad as Bush - Bolivarian Republic ...
    His enemies call him a tyrant and a dictator, but he is neither. Hugo Chavez is a tireless champion of the poor and a committed Christian socialist. The only difference between Chavez's type of Christianity and Barack Obama's, is that Chavez walks the walk. For example, on Tuesday, Chave ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Dude. You're on tape. Attempting to, you know, kill people. "The man accused of the Arizona shooting attack that killed six people and wounded 13, including a US congresswoman, has pleaded not guilty to three attempted murder charges. Jared Loughner, 22, entered the pleas over the attempted assassin ...
  • Where the rubber meets the road
    That's where I am. I simply can no longer afford to invest the amount of time I have been investing into blogging. I did it like a full-time job for over four years. I have invested thousands of hours and a few thousand dollars, too. I have literally worn out a Dell laptop and an Acer netbook in jus ...
  • Scalia exhibits High Court's partisan stripes once ...
    Georgetown law professor Jonathan Turley tackles an outrage that shocked me the first time I heard about it too: Justice Antonin Scalia's decision to accept an invitation from far right Rep. Michele Bachmann to appear before the new Tea Party Republican caucus today and instruct them on the finer po ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    They want no part of suicidal austerity. "The Republic of Ireland's Green Party is pulling out of the ruling coalition, a move expected to bring forward the general election due on 11 March. The Greens' announcement wipes out the ruling coalition's two-seat majority and puts into question the passag ...
  • Rather Than Raise Taxes On Rich, Texas Republicans ...
    This session, the Republican-dominated Texas Legislature is facing a two-year budget shortfall that could run as high as $27 billion. The reaction from Governor Goodhair and the others who are essentially on the corporate payroll has been predictable: slash and burn. Texas already has a well-earned ...

Care 2

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Obamacrats — “She can’t win.”
    * Bumped Up * I was inspired by a NQ reader, who found a way to get me a private message, to write the second election strategy employed by Obamacrats. The first, as you recall, although, really they are not in any hierarchical order, was, “He did it too.” The second is: 2. I like [...]
  • The Reinventions of Rahm and Barack * Monday Open ...
    Damn it all! Two f–kin’ judges have mucked up Rahm’s plans to reinvent himself as the mayor of Chicago (and I’m laying odds that Rahm exploded and said, “F–k those friggin’ bastards! Get this to the Supremes this f–kin’ minute!”) … Barack has big plans to reinvent himself, writes John Heilemann for ...
  • They Lied To Us, And Now We Are Footing Their Lega ...
    Who would that be, exactly? Oh, you are going to love this. We, you and I, American taxpayers, are footing the LEGAL bills for the Fannie Mae/Freddie mac executives who drove our economy into the ground for fraud suits filed against them starting 10 years ago. Who would that be, exactly? Oh, you kno ...
  • Countdown flashback: Larry Johnson on Mary McCarth ...
    Editor’s 01/24 Note: I am bumping this up so that you are sure to see Larry’s fascinating remarks about his appearances on Olbermann’s show as well as on Fox News. Look just below the video for Larry’s additional commentary in Truthtelling007′s post. Editor’s Note: Special thanks to our videographer ...
  • Jackal Stunt at the White House
    “My Homeland.”   The question is whether or not the famous Chinese concert pianist deliberately insulted the United States by playing a well-known agitprop song from a hambone Korean War melodrama, “The Battle of Shangganling Mountain” to the applause of the State dinner guests. Was the US duped, or ...

Environmental Graffiti

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

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

  • Sticks and Stones…
    By Will Shonbrun Despite the old adage it’s known by most that the impact of words – harsh, accusatory, judgmental or condemnatory – last and fester far longer than bodily bruises. Words matter. Ask the preacher or the politician or the pundit. Ask the dictator. First come the words, then the action ...
  • For Immediate Release: Detroit Federation of Teach ...
       “This isn’t Florida, and the DFT is Not a George Bush Union,” Declared the Real Winner, Steve Conn CONTACT:        Steve Conn                              (313) 645-9340 In a hotly contested runoff election for President of the Detroit Federation of Teachers, challenger Steve Conn of Defend Publi ...
  • CENSORED IN 1989: SOMETHING FOUL IN CHICKEN INDUST ...
    CENSORED IN 1989: SOMETHING FOUL IN THE CHICKEN INDUSTRY AND THE USDA The number of cases of salmonella has risen to 2.5 million a year and led to an estimated 500,000 hospitalizations and 9,000 deaths. This national epidemic was caused by a massive leap in consumer demand for the “healthier food” o ...
  • TOO MUCH
    I don’t know which is worse—That there are people who would pay $1,135 for a pair of sandals or that there is someone with enough hubris to think that her creation is worth that much.  Apparently, however, Chrissie Morris does, because here it is… “There’s a certain toughness, but the colors celebra ...
  • “Top Level Kids” and Accountability–A Radical Resp ...
    The 21st century Western world, driven by American corporate and consumer ideology, is a perpetual media culture that depends on sound bites and “the next thing,” leaving the public reduced to media consumers never allowed time to reflect on the information. Volume and speed have consumed and oblite ...

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Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • 2010 was not a good year for Raw Milk and Raw Milk ...
    The Chart (you can download with links) says it all. Seriously, let's think twice about expanding raw milk availability until, or if, the raw milk proponents take the real risks of raw milk seriously.
  • CDC Weighs in on Raw Milk Debate
    Sitting on a plane heading to the Nation's Capitol for the State of the Union, I was happy to see the CDC weighing in on the raw milk debate.  See, Food Safety and Raw Milk.  The CDC broke down the website into easy to read and understand sections: Raw Milk Questions and Answers Trying to Decide a ...
  • Bravo Farms Cheese - To Pasteurize or Go Raw that ...
    According to Visalia reporter Melina Morales, Bravo Farms is “now pasteurizing” some or all of its cheeses after it was linked to over 30 E. coli O157:H7 illnesses in the Western United States. According to Ms. Morales: Bravo Farms has begun pasteurizing its cheese because of the contamination inc ...
  • Raw Milk on Tap in Texas Too?
    It appears that Texas will be considering HB 75 and SB 237 which would both allow the sale of raw milk person to person, at farmers markets, at farm stands, and at flea markets. More visitors to Real Raw Milk Facts from Wisconsin, New Jersey and now Texas.
  • Raw Milk to be considered in New Jersey
    It does seem that raw milk legislation is on the move.� Whether they all pass is another thing.� Download Bill No. 743.� Losses for the raw milk movement have been in California and Wyoming so far this year.� The new battle lines are in Wisconsin and New Jersey.

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 01.24.11
    Why criticize the Model S for having a battery that's too big? Just don't understand. EPA approves E15 for 2001-2006 Model Year vehicles Can't imagine who would have a problem with this. House Repulicans prop ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.21.11
    Mercedes-Benz asks governments for more hydrogen infrastructure H2 for me and you? Latest Audi toy is a "Auto Union Type C e-tron study" with electric drive My toy car can beat up your toy car. Nissan Leaf de ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.20.11
    Fisker Karma production date set for March Yes, of 2011. In deep with GM's Mark Reuss: "The soul of the company has to be things like the Volt" The shape of things to come. Electric car pages on Wikipedia in ...
  • Chrysler working on hydraulic minivan hybrid with ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Minivan/Van, Technology, Chrysler Chrysler Group CEO Sergio Marchionne and Lisa Jackson, Agency Administrator for the EPA, announced a new research project to bring hydraulic hybrid technology to the marketplace. The new hybrid will be based on Chrysler's Town & Country miniv ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.19.11
    Video: First Model S Alpha build hits the road and it's gorgeous We're ready for our close-up. Detroit 2011: Volvo pushes electric vehicle safety message to the wall [w/video] It's an electric car that's also a Volvo, so you can bet it's ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

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

Digg Green

Invisible Opportunity

  • Poll in Germany: 89.5 doubt official version of 9/ ...
    A recent poll in the German magazine “Welt der Wunder” conducted by the well known Emnid Institute results in astonishing 89% of the German respondents not believing the official line 9/11. The magazine in 2010 already published the story of NATOs “secret nuclear war”, where the consequences of the ...
  • U.S. government commits avian holocaust with mass ...
    The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is engaged in what can only be called an avian holocaust through its Bye Bye Blackbird program that has poisoned tens of millions of birds over the last decade. The USDA even reports the number of birds it has poisoned to death in a PDF document pos ...
  • USDA found to be poisoning bird populations, causi ...
    By Mike Adams 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 ...
  • Hundreds Of Dead Birds In South Dakota Were Killed ...
    By Travis Walter Donovan When hundreds of dead birds were found Monday in Yankton, South Dakota, many residents were puzzled, thinking it was the latest in a string of similar mysterious mass animal deaths around the world. But this is one instance of the many where a clear cause has been identified ...
  • The downfall of science and the rise of intellectu ...
    By Mike Adams The very reputation of so-called “science” has been irreparably damaged by the invocation of the term “science” by GMO lackeys, pesticide pushers, mercury advocates and fluoride poisoners who all claim to have science on their side. It seems that every toxin, contamination and chemical ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • The Republican triple threat
    Look who’s behind the people you support… What to read From Grist: We canât beat China at cleantech as long as GOP keeps kissing fossil-fuel ass From Ecopolitology: Koch BrothersâTilting at Clean Energy From The Inspired Economist: Koch Industries Exploits Unemployment Rate to Support Big Oil Agenda ...
  • Chefs Alice Waters and Dan Barber Back Bluefin Tun ...
    Two of the United Statesâ leading chefs have joined the Center for Biological Diversityâs (CBD) campaign to save bluefin tuna, one of the worldâs most imperiled fish. Alice Waters, owner of Chez Panisse, in Berkeley, Calif., and Dan Barber, owner of Blue Hill in Manhattan, have signed a pledge not t ...
  • The World According to Monsanto – Full Documentary
    The World According to Monsanto is an in-depth Documentary that looks at the domination of the agricultural industry. Related posts:Monsanto News Roundup – A Frankenfood Extravaganza of GMO News Articles Food Inc. – Full Documentary Stop Monsanto Again–GM Alfalfa Threatens to Contaminate Or ...
  • The Aging Activist
    Don’t ever lose your passion or desire to take action for what you believe in. The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:Stop Monsanto Again–GM Alfalfa Threatens to Contaminate Organic Crops Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Bear ...
  • Extreme Makeover Stadium Edition: Eagles Going Gre ...
    In an era where sports stadiums are expanding seat capacities to limits that make fire marshals nervous, itâs nice to see at least one stadium making some environmentally friendly changes. While their team is not one of the 2011 Super Bowl favorites any longer (after losing to the Green Back Packers ...

Inhabitat

  • Dubai’s World of Islands is Sinking Into the Sea
    Read the rest of Dubai’s World of Islands is Sinking Into the Seahttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: dubai, dubai building boom, dubai's sinking i ...
  • A BRILLIANT STORAGE IDEA: Staircase Drawers
    Here’s a brilliant idea that leaves us wondering – why didn’t we think of this first? Despite our penchant for 2-in-1 furniture, we’ve never seen anything quite like this before. Regardless of attempts to be organized in the modern world, most of us continue to be ashamed of one (or eight, in my cas ...
  • Eureka Springs’ Open-Air Thorncrown Chapel Is a Pa ...
    While walking through the woods near Eureka Springs, Arkansas, one might be forgiven to mistake Thorncrown Chapel for a grove of trees in the middle of the forest. The transparent glazed facade, combined with the timber trusses, create the appearance of a grand forest rather than a carefully constru ...
  • Life and Water Development Group Cameroon Develops ...
    Using dirt to purify water does not immediately strike you as the ideal way to provide drinking water to the masses, but this is exactly what the Life and Water Development Group Cameroon (LWDGC) is doing. Founded in 2004 by Peter Njodzeka, the group has set a single goal: seeing that the people in ...
  • Steel Space: A Shipping Container Turned Mobile Ki ...
    Steel Space is a shipping container that can be transformed into a fully stocked restaurant, a kitchen appliance showroom, a compact traveling café, or even into a fast-food franchise. The module can easily be transported by truck, train, helicopter or boat anywhere around the world to promote a bra ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Runaway Star Creates Beautiful Bow Shock
    A massive star is caught fleeing its former companion, careening through space behind a brilliant yellow arc of gas and dust, in this exquisite new image from NASA’s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer telescope. Named Zeta Ophiuchi, the bright blue star in the image’s center is about 20 times more ...
  • New Doubts Raised About Potential Bee-Killing Pest ...
    A federal entomologist has become the latest researcher to voice doubts about neonicotinoids, a controversial new type of pesticide that may be linked to the collapse of honeybee populations in the United States. The Independent reports that in a documentary screened in Europe but not yet broadcast ...
  • Himalayan Glaciers Shrinking, With One Exception
    An important portion of the Himalaya’s glacier cover is currently stable and, thanks to an insulating layer of debris, may be even growing, a new study finds. The study’s conclusion contradicts a portion of the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report that had to be retracted last year ...
  • 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 ...

PakAlert

  • FEMA Requests Information on the Availability of 1 ...
    I want to start out by stating the importance of an article such as this as well as the importance of NOT jumping to conclusions or doing irrational things out of fear caused by the actions of FEMA. I believe that one of the major powers of FEMA is the fear that it instills in people who consider th ...
  • Dangerous Crossroads: Russia also has a Star Wars ...
    Russia must quickly modernize its nuclear deterrent focusing on the deployment of ballistic missiles capable of penetrating the most sophisticated missile defenses, a draft supplementary statement to the new START treaty ratification document says.
  • Food shortages: Creating a crisis to force global ...
    A shortage of food is being intentionally staged around the world. Apparently, if we resist the theft and seizure of food production and supply by bio-pirates and facilitated by government puppets, we will be intentionally starved into submission. Threats of the food shortage are constantly launch ...
  • 50 Incredibly Weird Facts About the Human Body
    As long as we make efforts to take care of ourselves and live healthy, there is a good chance that our bodies will serve us well for a long time. Our bodies truly are amazing. You might be surprised at what your body is capable of after reading these 50 weird facts about the human body
  • The end of The World: Dubai island development sin ...
    It exemplified the booming property market and ambition of Dubai’s entrepreneurs. But after the global financial crisis led to the collapse of the emirate’s home-building market, a unique development known as ‘The World’ is reportedly facing Armageddon. The project, a man-made archipelago designed t ...

Andy Worthington

  • Announcing the Polish Tour of “Outside the L ...
    From February 1 to 5, 2011, Moazzam Begg, former Guantánamo prisoner and director of the NGO Cageprisoners, and Andy Worthington, investigative journalist and author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison, will be visiting Poland for a tour of the doc ...
  • Aafia Siddiqui’s Lawyer: “She was Deta ...
    My thanks to an eagle-eyed supporter for pointing out that, on January 11, the Voice of the Cape radio station in South Africa interviewed Elaine Whitfield Sharp, the lawyer for Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani neuroscientist whose 86-year sentence in a New York courtroom last September — for alleg ...
  • Video: Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner and Victim of US Ren ...
    Last week, NBC News surprised everyone by featuring an interview conducted in Pakistan with Mohammed Saad Iqbal Madni, a former Guantánamo prisoner — and an innocent man seized in Indonesia in January 2002, at a time when the Bush administration was out of control, kidnapping men around the world a ...
  • Video: Forum — “WikiLeaks, State Secrets, Gu ...
    It now seems like an age since I flew into New York’s JFK airport — after an achingly long flight from London that involved sitting around at Heathrow for two hours while the plane underwent maintenance — to be met by my good friend The Talking Dog, who was putting me up in his secret [...]
  • Prisoner Describes Peaceful Protest in Guantánamo ...
    On the first anniversary of President Obama’s failure to close Guantánamo within  a year, as he promised on his second day in office in January 2009, the Center for Constitutional Rights, which has led the legal battle over Guantánamo for the last nine years, and has been responsible for organizi ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Conspiracy Trial Opens for Pennsylvania Cops in Im ...
    WILKES-BARRE, Pa. â The federal trial of three police officers accused of trying to cover up the murder of an undocumented Mexican immigrant â a hate crime that drew the nationâs attention to violence against Hispanics two years ago â opened this week with a focus on the small Northeast Pennsylvania ...
  • Neo-Nazi Leader Convicted on Threat Charges, Again
    In a case that tested the limits of free speech, an all-white jury in Chicago on Wednesday found the ever-garrulous imprisoned neo-Nazi leader Bill White guilty of using his website to encourage violence against the foreman of a jury that convicted a fellow white supremacist. Federal prosecutors in ...
  • Legislators Work with Anti-Immigrant Hate Group to ...
    FAIR President Dan Stein (second from left) poses with State Legislators for Legal Immigration members. On Wednesday, legislators from the anti-immigrant organization State Legislators for Legal Immigration (SLLI) will announce at the National Press Club their plan to halt what they call âthe misapp ...
  • FAIR Pushing Utah to Take Expensive Anti-Immigrant ...
    The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday published a lengthy investigative report on the origins of the immigration bill proposed by Utah State Rep. Stephen Sandstrom (R-Orem). Chief among the story’s findings is that Michael Hethmon, general counsel to the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), played a m ...
  • New SPLC Report: Nativist Laws Cost Communities Mi ...
    Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center released a new report, âWhen Mr. Kobach Comes to Town: Nativist Laws & the Communities They Damage.â The report analyzes the disastrous aftermath for communities that have enacted local ordinances aimed at punishing undocumented immigrants. Last year, the first ...

change: org.

  • Abercrombie and Target Ignore Third Most Popular P ...
    65,000 people from more than 70 countries call on American corporations with annual profits in the tens of billions to give a minuscule percentage of that to compensate workers killed or injured while making their clothing. Sound reasonable? Apparently, for Target and Abercrombie & Fitch, the answer ...
  • New Hampshire: Steer Clear of Anti-Abortion Laws
    Up in New Hampshire where I attended college, the thermometer's been dipping down below zero degrees. Yeah, that's Fahrenheit. Gives me the shivers just thinking about it. But while I would consider this way below freezing weather bad news enough for the winter, there's something else to be concerne ...
  • Will Ferrari End Its Addiction to Tobacco Sponsors ...
    Car racing used to be a major recipient of tobacco marketing dollars, a perfect venue for repetitive branding to a captive and youthful audience. However, since the overt branding of cars has been banned, almost all tobacco sponsors have pulled out. But not Philip Morris International. In fact, they ...
  • Will the EPA Ever Regulate Air Pollution from Fact ...
    So what happens when you're a major player in the agricultural industry and also happen to not keep up with environmental regulations? Well, first, several environmental organizations and non-profits will complain about you to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Then, the EPA will offer to st ...
  • Ungreening the Capitol: House Nixes Food Compostin ...
    New Republican leaders in the House of Representatives are sure eager to save money by promoting true sustainability in our nation's capital. What, did you say? Did Rep. John Boehner actually agree to stop wasting money on bottled water, as Corporate Accountability International, hundreds of Change. ...

Common Dreams -News

  • 'Awful' Congress, Irrational US Policies Keep Sham ...
    by Carol RosenbergTwo years after the newly minted Obama administration moved to undo what had become one of the most controversial legacies of the George W. Bush presidency by ordering the closure of the prison camps at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a trove of State Department documents made public by ...
  • 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
  • Algerian Democracy Rally Broken Up
    Several people have been injured after police broke up a banned pro-democracy demonstration in the Algerian capital, Algiers, the leader of the opposition party that organised the rally has told AFP news agency About 300 people defied a ban in an attempt to hold the demonstration on Saturday bu ...
  • Papers Reveal How Palestinian Leaders Gave Up Figh ...
    by Ian Black and Seumas Milne Palestinian negotiators privately agreed that only 10,000 refugees and their families – out of a total refugee population exceeding 5 million – could return to Israel as part of a peace settlement, leaked confidential documents reveal.read more
  • How Can We Feed the World and Still Save the Plane ...
    by Madeleine BuntingFood has become subject to one of the sharpest global debates, with rising anxiety about how the world's growing population is going to feed itself. Increasingly, Olivier de Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, is establishing himself as one of its key pr ...

Lifehacker

  • Use Chrome and Chromium Side-By-Side for Easy Prof ...
    Whether you have multiple users or just want different setups for work and play, multiple browser profiles are handy. Instead of going through the trouble to set them up, though, reader cbstryker recommends just using Chrome and Chromium side- ...
  • InMaps Visualizes Your LinkedIn Contacts with Inte ...
    LinkedIn isn't the most visually arresting site. Log into the InMaps "labs," however, and you see every connection, daisy-chained in colorful loops and webs. See who knows who and plot your career escape, or just reminisce over jobs of yore. ...
  • DIY Hand-Powered USB Crank Charger
    Those hand-crank LED flashlights are pretty handy, but I find myself needed some extra juice in my phone more often than I find myself in the dark. Here's how to convert one of those to a hand-crank USB charger. More�� ...
  • LibreOffice 3.3 Final Gives the OpenOffice.org Sui ...
    Windows/Mac/Linux: The first finalized release of the OpenOffice.org spin-off, LibreOffice, has hit the web at version 3.3. It's got a few unique features, an ever-so-slightly tweaked look, and the ability to export to Microsoft's DOCX format ...
  • Listening Room Lets You Share Music in Real-Time A ...
    If you're trying to decide on a background track, wedding reception picks, or other crucial tunes, you don't have to be in-person to get instant reactions. Listening Room lets anyone upload tracks for playing in real time to anyone with the li ...

Water Privatization

  • Water, oil, fare hikes hit
    MANILA, Philippines – Following increases in transport fares and prices of oil products, the public will have to brace anew for another round of adjustments in water cost for consumers in Metro Manila and adjoining provinces. Bagong Henerasyon partylist Rep. Bernadette Herrera Dy said a P3 increase ...
  • Memo to Congress: Show us the M-O-N-E-Y! (Part 2)
    Like the Fed, states and local governments appear to be between a rock and a hard place, and like the Fed’s QE2 program now aimed at Main Street, solutions for state and local governments have been so far less than palatable.
  • Wild water tamed - Abbotsford paddler against run- ...
    For elite-level kayaker Ryan Bayes of Abbotsford, paddling B.C.’s myriad creeks and rivers is as close as he’ll get to heaven on Earth.
  • Michael Deane: Experts Agree U.S. Water Infrastruc ...
    When municipalities work in tandem with private water service providers, the end result is likely to be more efficient, transparent and a better value for the customer.
  • Toronto Catholic high schools work to eliminate bo ...
    TORONTO (CNS) -- Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of Toronto are working to create "bottled water-free zones" within their schools.

Guardian

  • Double-dip recession fears as economy shrinks 0.5%
    �� ONS blames wintry weather for most of the contraction �� Economists now fear 'stagflation' �� Pound and FTSE 100 fall �� What the economists say �� Poll: Should Osborne change course?The UK economy shrank by a shock 0.5% in the last quarter of 2010 as Britain's recovery from recession faltered.Mo ...
  • Jeremy Hunt delays BSkyB referral
    Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt minded to refer the takeover bid to the Competition Commission, but will first consider 'undertakings' from News Corp News Corp lays ground for judicial review of BSkyB verdict Dan Sabbagh: Jeremy Hunt buys himself time over News Corp decisionJeremy Hunt, the culture s ...
  • The King's Speech scores royal flush with 12 nods
    �� True Grit picks up 10 nominations �� The Social Network comes in third with eight �� The Fighter and Winter's Bone also big hittersColin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush have all been nominated for acting Oscars. The King's Speech, Tom Hooper's drama about George VI's struggles to ov ...
  • Briton killed in Moscow due to marry
    Gordon Cousland, who died in Domodedovo airport terror attack, had a six-month-old daughter and planned to wed in springGordon Cousland, the 39-year-old British man killed in the suicide attack on Domededovo airport, had a six-month-old daughter and was planning to get married in the spring.The prop ...
  • Middle East protests: live updates
    Governments in Tunisia, Egypt and Lebanon are all facing protests on a significant day in the Middle East2.03pm: The Guardian's Martin Chulov says Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah has been speaking live, urging calm while the Lebanese Army battles a Sunni group near Tripoli, after a can ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Forests: REDD or dead?
    There's pretty strong criticism this week for the UN-backed initiative on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) - criticism timed for the opening, in New York, of the UN Forum on Forests. Forest destruction is a major cause of biodiversity loss around the world Reduc ...
  • H for 'human': The missing climate link?
    As many commentators have pointed out down the years, virtually all the hopes expressed by governments in terms of reducing carbon emissions ultimately hang on technology. It stems from the famous IPAT equation: Impact = Population x Affluence x Technology ...sometimes expressed as... Impact = ...
  • Summit misses the 'C-word'
    Some fascinating threads on energy and climate change are swirling around the heads of Presidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao as the two leaders convene in Washington DC. China's energy direction is assured - but is the US's? The "C-word" isn't being mentioned in despatches at all - but the E-word ...
  • Real world of climate: How scary?
    Earlier this week I posted on uncertainty in climate model projections, raising the question of whether lack of certainty made the future more or less "scary" - and what it should mean for policymaking. As would have been expected, I guess, your responses varied greatly - from Maurizio Maurabito's ...
  • Conservation and Schrodinger's cat
    � In Schrodinger's famous thought experiment involving an unsuspecting, limbo-bound feline, the mere act of observing something can change its state. In the real wild world, it's not supposed to happen - to cats or other animals. The very idea of ecological science as it's practised nowadays is ...

The Wonk Room

thwap's schoolyard

  • "Wayne" - an example of a debased political cultur ...
    Blogger "Wayne" comes off as being one of the stupidest individuals on the fucking planet. I banned him a long time ago after a comment he left in this post but for reasons known only to himself, he has occasionally tried to post things in the three years since. His most recent offering was only las ...
  • Anonymous political blogging, civility, and me
    A days ago, Dr. Dawg wrote about Don Cherry's obnoxicity and went on to say a few more things about politics, blogging, and Canadian sensibilities: Canadians, even in 2010 after four years of rule by Stephen Harper, pride ourselves on our good manners. It’s one way we measure ourselves against Ame ...
  • That Fucking Liar "fergusrush"
    Over here, I spent considerable time trying to defend and advance Dr. Dawg's thesis about right-wing violence against the deluded nitwit "Peter 1" who wants to pretend (when it suits his purposes) that there is no phenomenon of right-wing violence in the USA, and the pompous ass "fergusrush" who sim ...
  • The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse or thwap's New ...
    "This one goes up to eleven." Here we go. This is basically stream-of-consciousness blather. If I am right about anything then you all owe me 5 cents each! There will be no federal election in the spring. The NDP will cover itself in dishonour and sell-out to the harpercons for a mess of pottage. ...
  • "Screw the 'Red-Book'" Part XXVII
    You know, I've really got to say something to you "progressive" Liberal supporters. We might be sliding into an election and you people, even after the pathetic failure of Obama (which is really not a failure but a successful con-job) and the plundering neoliberalism and the hugely hypocritical ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Ninth Circuit protects social worker's court testi ...
    Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion holding that a social worker is protected from retaliation for his courtroom testimony about  a former client. The case is Clairmont v. Sound Mental Health and Wilson, No. 09-35856 (9th Cir. 2011). From 2005 to 2007, Sound ...
  • Supreme Court protects whistleblower's family from ...
    Today the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision that prohibits employers from retaliating against a whistleblower's family members or other associates. The decision in Thompson v. North American Stainless LP is unanimous, and reverses an en banc decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in C ...
  • Cuccinelli's misuse of the FCA
    Today's Washington Post, Metro section, leads with a story by Rosalind Helderman called "Democrats try to curb Cuccinelli's powers." The story reports on an effort by some Virginia Commonwealth Senators to change state law so that the state Attorney General must get court approval before issuing a " ...
  • NELA to host webinar on new whistleblower remedies
    The National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) has scheduled a webinar called Using New Developments In Whistleblower Laws To Your Client's Advantage.� It will be on March 10, 2011, 11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern. This 90-minute webinar will address new developments in whistleblower law, incl ...
  • ARB holds first oral argument in a SOX case
    Today the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) held its first oral argument in a case under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). Last November, the ARB gave notice of today's oral argument, and invited interested groups to submit friend-of-the-court (or "amicus") briefs. The ARB asked th ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • IP Legal Experts Say ACTA Is 'Inconsistent' With E ...
    It's been pointed out over and over again how ACTA would require many countries to change their IP laws, while locking in some other laws that are still very much in flux. However, many of the main proponents of ACTA have insisted that it won't really require any legal changes. Now a group of IP e ...
  • Crowdfunding Makes Sense... But Does Crowd Creativ ...
    I'm all for interesting experiments involving compelling ways to connect with fans and give them a reason to buy, and I love finding out about platforms that enable such things. However, I have to admit that I'm pretty skeptical about the basic concept behind Crowdbands, which not only lets you "fu ...
  • DailyDirt: Big Bugs And Old Dogs
    People sometimes have a strange fascination with huge bugs -- whether it's for "biggest cockroach" contests or giant (mechanical) spiders (see also: Jon Peters). There are also a whole lot of dog lovers... so we've put these two tastes together with a couple random links about both. Maybe it's n ...
  • Video Of Last Week's Thoughtful Discussion On Wiki ...
    Last week, I wrote about the fascinating panel discussion about Wikileaks I attended, which had Daniel Ellsberg (of Pentagon Papers fame), Clay Shirky, Roy Singham, Peter Thiel and Jonathan Zittrain. In the discussion, I noted that there really wasn't anyone on the panel who felt that Wikileaks was ...
  • Mysterious Non-Company 'Helping' ACS:Law Collect F ...
    As ACS:Law's legal mistakes mount, there was a recent story about how the company had passed on some collections efforts to a firm called GCB, but the details suggested another total screwup. People tracked GCB back to an accounting firm, which quickly put on their website that while GCB was formed ...

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BroadSnark

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

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Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

treehugger

  • Controversy Over Future of London's Olympic Stadiu ...
    Photo: B. Alter: Stadium, December, 2010 The London 2012 Olympics' claim to be the greenest ever is coming under threat almost daily. The plans for recycling and re-using the new buildings were impressive but a huge controversy has developed over the future of the 80,000 seat Olympic stadiu ...
  • Cat Born in Tree Refuses to Come Down
    Screenshot from YouTube Sure, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, but sometimes a cat never leaves it at all. Last June, a litter of cats was born high up in the branches of a maple tree in Green County, Wisconsin -- and seven months later, one of those kittens still remains, apparently un ...
  • Rolling Stone's Top 12 Politicians and Execs Block ...
    Image: Innovation in Newspapers The vast majority of scientists -- even American ones! -- agree that human beings are pumping too much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and that this is causing the global climate to warm. So why aren't we trying to do anything about it? Well, we are. Millions ...
  • Pollution-Detecting Clothing Line Unveiled in New ...
    warning signs from Susan Ngo on Vimeo. They always say that fashion should be functional. Or that fashion should always function. Or that functional fashion is finest? Okay, I know there's a pithy saying somewhere in the ether of our vernacular that contains both the words fashion and function in ...
  • Seattle Metro Bus Cake for Bus-Obsessed 2-Year Old ...
    Photo: nicolemcguire, CC Best Birthday Cake Ever! Now for something on the lighter side (though maybe not light in calories)... Most of us treehuggers like public transportation. Some even develop a certain personal fondness for it over years of use; it starts to become a familar place where y ...

Biosingularity

  • Shingles Vaccine Cuts Disease Risk 55%
    The herpes zoster vaccine, better known as the shingles vaccine and recommended for adults 60 and older, cuts the risk of getting the painful disease by 55%, new research finds. “Compared to childhood vaccines, people would [probably] think 55% is not too impressive, because many childhood vaccines ...
  • Using the body’s own defenses to combat cancer
    In the past 40 years, scientists have learned a great deal about how cells become cancerous. Some of that knowledge has translated to new treatments, but most of the time doctors are forced to rely on standard chemotherapy and radiation, which can do nearly as much damage to the patients as they do ...
  • Telomere Tweaks Reverse Aging in Mice
    By tweaking enzymes that prevent chromosome tips from unraveling, researchers have shown age-related tissue degeneration can be reversed in some mice. Medical breakthroughs involving mice must be taken with rock-sized grains of salt because, despite their genetic similarity, the rodents aren’t human ...
  • Warfarin, Dietary Supplements a Risky Combo
    If you’re using the anticlotting drug warfarin, tell your doctor about any herbal or dietary supplements you may be taking. That’s the strong advice of researchers who say that nine of the 10 top-selling supplements can change the effectiveness of warfarin, potentially causing a dangerous bleed, a d ...
  • A SNP Surprise
    Ellen Goode and her colleagues at the Mayo Clinic found a surprise while studying the human genome: four chromosomal locations with mutations that could lead to an increased risk of ovarian cancer. But the biggest surprise was a number of SNPs on chromosome 8 that seem to act through a different mec ...

CFACT

  • India and the next green revolution
    Until recent decades, India was famous for its famines, not its computer industry. India̢۪s dense population and erratic monsoon rainfall put it constantly at food risk. Tomorrow, India̢۪s farmers will need another Green Revolution to feed India as it becomes the world̢۪s most populous country ...
  • Make your year-end contribution today!
    CFACT has become the preeminent organization presenting constructive alternatives to green radicalism that hold the left at bay. Your gift will have a direct impact on our educational programs and on our award-winning outreach.
  • 'Cool it' with all the research dollars
    Preparation and adaptation for all climate change is the simple, common-sense, cost-effective and precautionary Plan B that all governments can - and should - support.
  • End the ethanol subsidies
    Congressional inaction would save taxpayers $6 billion; lower beef, pork, poultry and egg prices; and save tens of thousands of gallons of water.
  • CFACT to showcase experts at Cancun climate confer ...
    CFACT will feature two prominent experts on climate science and policy at COP 16, the UN conference on climate change which convenes next week in Cancun, Mexico.

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Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • Traceability Rule Represents Big Adjustment for Fo ...
    In response to a new federal food safety law and growing consumer interest, vast amounts of new data are being generated about the complicated path that food takes from field to supermarket shelf.Click here to read this article
  • UK Finally Makes Smart Decision to Protect Childre ...
    Ministers of parliament and senior advisers in the UK government ruled against the flu vaccine for children under 5. This decision comes even though a flu epidemic is currently striking the UK.Click here to read this article
  • "Legalize Democracy!" Demand Activists Rallying Na ...
    Pushing back against an activist US Supreme Court that has given corporations carte blanche to warp not just our politics but the republic itself, grassroots reformers and activists have used the one-year anniversary of the court's lawless decision in the Citizens United v. FECcase to argue that dem ...
  • Pesticides Give Rise to Mutant Bed Bugs
    Bedbugs are coming back with a vengeance, and a new study out of Ohio State University says that pesticides and insecticides are at least jointly responsible for spawning a new breed of mutant bedbugs that is genetically-resistant to the very chemicals commonly used to eradicate it..Click here to re ...
  • Why I Stopped Being a Vegetarian
    I had a serious change of heart, and it happened when I realized my aversion to meat wasn't solving the animal welfare problem I was protesting about. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Viaje por el fondo del mar III (Animales Acuáticos ...
    Si lo desea, revise nuestras entregas anteriores sobre esta serie. (1)(2)(3) ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora si así lo desea.
  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XXXVI
    [1][2][3][4][5]-[6]-[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36] ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarla ...
  • Imágenes, frescos y pinturas católicas II (7 eleme ...
    Si lo desea, puede revisar nuestro archivo general sobre esta colección. (1) (2) ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora si así lo desea.
  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XXXV
    Si usted lo desea, puede revisar nuestras entregas anteriores sobre esta serie titulada 'Selecciones Especiales del Banco de Imágenes'. Hasta este momento, suman más de 1,000 fotografías dentro de esta categoría. Explore, disfrute y comparta... [1]-[2]-[3]-[4]-[5]-[6]-[7]-[8]-[9]-[10]-[11]-[12][13][ ...
  • Imágenes, frescos y pinturas católicas I (5 elemen ...
    En esta ocasión, el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas, se congratula al presentar su serie titulada 'Imágenes, frescos y pinturas católicas'. Esperando que disfruten estas bellas obras de arte, les reitero mi agradecimiento por su gentil preferencia. ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, nave ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Shovel ready: Cuban urban agriculture as job creat ...
    Iâve just returned from eight days in Cuba studying their sustainable agricultural system — especially their urban agriculture sector — and I have several key take-aways. One of the biggest insights was the untapped potential of urban agriculture as a creator of good jobs. The Cuban system was re ...
  • New kit can help farmers reduce pesticide impact
    A Farmer Information Kit released recently by the Maryland Pesticide Network (MPN) seems to show that concern about the impacts of pesticides on our environment and health is becoming more widespread, judging by the organizations and disciplines that were part of the kit’s production. The kit is a ...
  • Leading U.S. Food Service Provider Introduces Meat ...
    The national non-profit Meatless Monday campaign is proving to be “The Little Engine That Could” in the environmental public health world. In just the last two years national awareness of Meatless Monday more than doubled. According to a commissioned survey by FGI Research more than 30 percent of Am ...
  • Cuban Pesos: A Farmer’s Market Experience
    CLF’s Sr. Research Program Coordinators Jesse Kurtz-Nicholl and Sarah Rodman are visiting Cuba as part of a Natural Environmental Ecological Management delegation. Members of the group will see first hand large-scale Cuban infrastructure developed to support its 18-year-old, world-renowned sustainab ...
  • Conference Envisions a Very Different Future Harve ...
    Thirty years ago, Bruce Springsteen wrote the lyric “from small things, mama, big things one day come.” In a sense, that was part of the message of Fred Kirschenmann’s keynote address at the 12th annual conference of Future Harvest-Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture, although his addres ...

Norwegianity

  • NPM
    NPM: Norwegianity in the afternoon, in case you were wondering about the hed. - You really would have to have lived in Minnesota these past nine years to appreciate how absurdly full of shit this campaign ad is, or how much the sound engineers had to fuck with this to make little Timmy sound preside ...
  • Scrambling for new ways to get banned
    There’s nothing like being told you can’t write to make you want to write, but in this case the break was too brief for that to really take hold and this therefore is written more from habit than a rekindled burning, yearning desire. Still, I got links. Not politics (but you can see them from [...]
  • Everything I know about that
    Received from WordPress just now: And that’s all I know about that. I’m also assuming this means WordPress is cool with everything I use my blogs for, which is kind of astonishing when you think about it. Back to the Kindle now so I can finish up learning who would have won the first world [...]
  • Linking to prerebuttals
    Not unlike a wino licking found twist-off bottle caps, I again find myself acutely aware of the political zeitgeist. I regret to report that it hasn’t changed much since last November but at least there’s been some movement out there. As in the right behaved so badly that Keith Olbermann had to be l ...
  • Falling off the wagon
    Had five Hopslams last night, which is the equivalent of drinking ten regular beers. Not only are these super-hopped beers stronger than regular beer, they go down more easily. Which is a good thing. The wagon I fell off of had nothing to do with booze. Booze has never been a problem for me other [. ...

Public News Service

  • Will Medicaid Cuts Cripple Arizona’s Health ...
    Will Medicaid Cuts Cripple Arizona’s Health Care System? Phoenix, AZ – Arizona is expected to formally request a waiver from the federal government to drop 280-thousand people from the state’s Medicaid program known as AHCCCS (Access). If the waiver is granted, medical providers are worried the resu ...
  • Stalking Moving Into Cyber-space
    Stalking Moving Into Cyber-space Phoenix, AZ – January is National Stalking Awareness Month and new technology can play a big role in stalking cases. Comments from Cindy Southworth, founder of the Safety Net Technology Project at the National Network to End Domestic Violence, and Jeff Greipp (GRIPE) ...
  • New Report Confirms More Families Among Arizona Ho ...
    New Report Confirms More Families Among Arizona Homeless Phoenix, AZ – The face of homelessness is changing in Arizona. A new report shows fewer long-term homeless people on the streets, but more families. Comments from Joan Serviss (Service), executive director, Arizona Coalition to End Homelessnes ...
  • Opening Day Near for AZ Field of Special Dreams
    Opening Day Near for AZ Field of Special Dreams Scottsdale, AZ – A unique kind of baseball park is just weeks away from opening in Scottsdale. The Miracle League of Arizona stadium will allow Arizona’s special needs kids to fully enjoy the game just like any other child. Comments from Miracle League ...
  • MLK Jr. and the Real Power of Non-violence
    MLK Jr. and the Real Power of Non-violence Phoenix, AZ – With the nation debating the role of violent rhetoric in our political life, an associate of Martin Luther King, Jr. says we can mark the civil rights leader's birthday (Mon., Jan 17) by remembering the power of non-violence. Comments from the ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • We Twisted King’s Dream, So We Live With His Night ...
    We Twisted King’s Dream, So We Live With His Nightmare - COLORLINES: "Then of course came the venal cooptation of King’s crowning public moment—the 1963 March on Washington—by Glenn Beck, this past August. Insisting that it was time to “reclaim the civil rights movement,” because conservatives were ...
  • What the Zapatistas can teach us about the climate ...
    What the Zapatistas can teach us about the climate crisis: [permaculture-media] "The Line of Dignity proposes that equity between North and South can only be reached when the Northern notion of environmental sustainability (preservation of resources for planetary needs and future generations) is mat ...
  • NYPD Cops' Training Included an Anti-Muslim Horror ...
    NYPD Cops' Training Included an Anti-Muslim Horror Flick - Page 1 - Columns - New York - Village Voice: "And not just some diddly 20-minute educational film, either. It was a full-length color feature, with more explosions than a Transformers sequel and more blood-splattered victims than an HBO Worl ...
  • The New Gay � Why Don’t Gender Rights Have a Bigge ...
    The New Gay � Why Don’t Gender Rights Have a Bigger Queer Following?: "The combat role has been a focal point of gender-role terror over several decades about integration of women and queer people in the armed forces. I’d like to start my storytelling in 1980, with one of my favorite forgotten “nati ...
  • Congresswoman Barbara Lee, and the silence of frie ...
    Congresswoman Barbara Lee, and the silence of friends: [mondoweiss.net] "We know the most vociferous opponents of Palestinian freedom that walk the halls of Congress. Their words and actions are clearly supportive of the most brutal of Israeli actions against Palestinians, leaving no room for doubt ...

Pensieve

  • Departure
    Photo by PeWu Iâm at the train station; no one knows Iâm there. Iâm standing in line, debating with myself. Should I buy a ticket or just walk away? Am I a coward for leaving? Is it brave to lie? I recognize the hurt that others are going through their lives crumbling to dust. Am [...] Related pos ...
  • Muddy Metaphor
    I went to the La Silla River this morning. A year ago It was once more of a swamp than a river, with brackish water and muddy banks. But, a few months ago, hurricane flooded it; many houses were filled with mud, and cars were swept away. But soon after the storm passed, the river [...] Related pos ...
  • Confused about the Amendments
    The constitutional amendments keep coming. It appears though that these still have to be ratified. The changes are only “initiatives”, and are not yet binding. The article I am using as a basis first said the “reform was approved”, but that it still needs to be “ratified” once the next legislature b ...
  • More Constitutional Amendments!?
    The Honduran Congress has introduced more constitutional amendments last night, apparently to reform the judicial branch of government. I hope the Supreme Court declares them unconstitutional quickly; I suspect the reforms are “punishment” for the Supreme Court not bending to Manuel Zelaya’s will in ...
  • Charter Cities in Honduras?
    Paul Romer, speaking at a TED conference, proposed the creation of “charter cities” in poor countries as a way to develop them. His prime example, China, with Hong Kong, and the new special cities that China has set up under more capitalist rules. Mr. Romer recently visited Tegucigalpa, and has some ...

Green Times

  • Street art imitating nature
    If forests and jungles keep getting destroyed around the world, street art like this will be the only memories of their unreplaceable beauty. Many people still consider exotic wood furniture to be a special sign of luxury but don’t consider the ecological impact of destroying the forests where ...
  • Rusting Rail Line
    Transport evolution from locomotives to the latest inventions like the magnetic levitation hover-train project is amazing and make the history of transport fascinating. While the first steam engines worked with in the form of coal and emitted an enormous amount of carbon dioxide (glossary/categ ...
  • Factory Ruins
    Is there an eco friendly way to close down a factory? Most companies try to avoid to remove all environmentally unsafe substances in order to save money. The complex disposal of industrial pollutants (climate-change/pollutants.html) like heavy metals can become very expensive. In some cases i ...
  • Environmental News 25/01/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Blue Sea
      How beautiful is the ocean? But did you know that less than 1% of Australia’s South West marine environment is protected?! Overfishing, climate change, pollution of the sea and a lot of other factors destroy the marine environment every day. Oceans are an important ecosystem (glossary/wildli ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Japan culling 410,000 chickens at bird flu-hit pou ...
    ShareThisJapan culling 410,000 chickens at bird flu-hit poultry farms 24 Jan 2011 Authorities in Miyazaki prefecture in Japan's southern island of Kyushu are culling 410,000 chickens at a local poultry farm hit by bird flu on Monday. Five chickens at the Shintomi farm tested positive for the virus S ...
  • Japan redoubles efforts to tackle bird flu outbrea ...
    ShareThisJapan redoubles efforts to tackle bird flu outbreak in SW region 24 Jan 2011 The Miyazaki Prefectural government on Monday redoubled its efforts to combat the outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus in the prefecture, located on the eastern coast of the island of Kyushu in sou ...
  • 'US drone downed in Afghanistan'
    ShareThis'US drone downed in Afghanistan' 25 Jan 2011 An Afghan militant group has released footage of what it says is a downed US drone aircraft in the Logar province in eastern Afghanistan. The militant group's undated video shows that a pilotless jet is lying on the ground. The spokesman for the ...
  • Medvedev Blames Lax Security for Airport Bomb That ...
    ShareThisMedvedev Blames Lax Security for Airport Bomb That Killed 35 25 Jan 2011 President Dmitry Medvedev blamed lax security for a suicide bombing at Russia's busiest airport that killed 35 people as investigators raced to find the organizers of the "terrorist attack." Medvedev told prosecutors t ...
  • Polar bears likely to have tough year: expert
    ShareThisPolar bears likely to have tough year: expert --Scientist says thin ice this season could have long-term impact 24 Jan 2011 One of Canada's top polar bear scientists says the poor ice conditions in the eastern Arctic this year could have a devastating impact on the animals. Andrew Derocher, ...

Daily Loaf

  • Sadness in St. Pete; Carol Browner’s departure mea ...
    The deaths of St. Petersburg Police Officers Thomas Baitinger and Jeffrey Yaslowit was huge news in the Tampa Bay area on Monday, and will continue to be throughout the week.   As has been reported nationally today, there has been a recent spate of police officer killings just in the last week.  Ho ...
  • Oscars 2011: The Fighter is looking good
    Other highlights this morning include the entire list of Best Supporting Actor nominees: Jeremy Renner in The Town, John Hawkes for Winter's Bone, Geoffrey Rush in The King's Speech, and Mark Ruffalo in The Kids Are All Right.
  • A lot on the line for Barack Obama in his SOTU Spe ...
    Obama is expected to call for rebuilding the country's deteriorating infrastructure. But as Michael Cooper reports in today's New York Times, the GOP isn't expected to go along - and don't forget - they have a big say on the matter now.
  • Pollo Tropical offers $1 soups to celebrate Nat’l ...
    They're getting in the spirit of National Soup Month by offering their Caribbean Chicken or Split Pea Soup for only $1 on National Soup Day, January 26th.
  • Mission (NOT) accomplished on climate change: Caro ...
    Browner was most visible in her tenure in the Obama White House at one of the low moments in recent vintage when it comes to the environment: the months long Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a disaster in which the ultimate damage to our coast still has yet to be determined.

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Not Obama
    From God Hates Protesters
  • Did Keith Olbermann jump or was he pushed?
    Watch the Taiwanese NMA.TV video on YouTube! (Sometimes I think they understand America better than we do.)
  • Turbine-free wind power
    NY Times – Turbine-Free Wind Power from Antfood on Vimeo. There’s a panel with several foam pads and piezoelectric connectors that harvest energy. The panels wouldnât make much noise and could be installed on facades, roofs, and almost anywhere else. If this proves commercially viable, it could chan ...
  • Thought for the Day
    How can Obama be moving to the center when he is already there?
  • Buh-bye Rahm!
    Appeals court orders Rahm Emanuel off Chicago ballot

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • U.S. can’t link accused Army private to Assa ...
    NBC News U.S. military officials tell NBC News that investigators have been unable to make any direct connection between a jailed army private suspected with leaking secret documents and Julian Assange, founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. The officials say that while investigators have ...
  • Caught on Tape: AngryCop vs. Hat
  • This Day In History – January 25
    1533 â Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn. 1787 â American Daniel Shays leads a rebellion to seize Federal arsenal to protest debtor’s prisons. 1791 â The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper and Low ...
  • Renewed Push to Give Obama an Internet “Kill ...
    A controversial bill handing President Obama power over privately owned computer systems during a “national cyberemergency,” and prohibiting any review by the court system, will return this year. Internet companies should not be alarmed by the legislation, first introduced last summer by Sens. Josep ...
  • Ron Paul “The Federal Reserve Is Responsible ...

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook’s Sponsored Stories Turns News Feed Posts ...
    Today, Facebook launches a new ad unit called “Sponsored Stories” that turns Page updates, as well as Places checkins, Likes, and application activity by users into advertisements. Sponsored Stories will allow advertisers to augment viral buzz by giving greater distribution and visibility to posts t ...
  • Facebook Campaigns: Microsoft Hong Kong, Transport ...
    A few of the campaigns we looked at this as part of our weekly campaigns post required video uploads as a condition of entry — that resulted in not so stellar results. Elsewhere, Microsoft in Hong Kong is running an interesting campaign to promote the newest version of Internet Explorer in the city. ...
  • An In-Depth Look at the Social Gaming Industry’s P ...
    Facebook, and social gaming, appears to be a vastly different place for game developers today versus just a year ago. While social gaming visibly grew at astounding rates through 2009 and into early 2010, producing massive successes like Zynga, growth seemed to suddenly stop in the spring of 2010 as ...
  • Facebook Launches Page Citing Statistics and New I ...
    Facebook has launched a new Credits page on its developers site aimed at convincing game and application companies to implement Facebook Credits as a payment option. Facebook announced earlier today that Credits will become the exclusive payment method for all canvas games and apps starting July 1st ...
  • Facebook Sets July, 1, 2011 Deadline to Make Credi ...
    Starting at its developer conference last April, Facebook has been saying publicly for the past year that Credits would eventually be the only payment option in social games on the site (although it started saying so to developers months before). It had originally slated all developers to have compl ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Would the isolation of America persuade Obama not ...
    Alan Hart argues that President Barack Obama has a choice: either to put the interests of the USA, justice and world peace first and support the UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, or go down in history as the man who president over ...
  • London's Foreign Office might as well relocate to ...
    Stuart Littlewood takes a close look at the subtefuge, obfuscations and double talk of British Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt, a card-carrying Israeli stooge who on a recent visit to occupied Palestine deceitfully professed his commitment to justice in the Holy Land while pledging to stand by ...
  • Silencing the media in America
    Paul J. Balles views the Zionist lobby's stranglehold over the mainstream media in the United States which has succeeded in bullying, threatening or bribing journalists into silence over Israel's crimes.
  • Why Obama's "new thinking" initiative on Middle Ea ...
    Lawrence Davidson says an Obama initiative to inject "new" thinking into the Palestinian-Israeli "peace process" is doomed to fail because Obama has judged it safer to "resurrect the dead" in the form of failed, pro-Israel advisers of previous administrations than to opt for genuinely new thinking, ...
  • Why are UK and USA in Afghanistan?
    Tim Coles argues that underlying the Anglo-American invasion and occupation of Afghanistan is the desire to acquire and secure energy sources in Central Asia and Iran as part of the strategy of full spectrum dominance.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

Afro Spear

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

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • Lebanon on Edge - How Hezbollah Will Carry the Day ...
    The seemingly never-ending story of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which was established by the U.N. Security Council to prosecute the killers of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, reached a landmark this week when the court's prosecutor submitted his indictment to pretrial judge Daniel ...
  • Ivory Coast on Edge - West African Regional Bank P ...
    West African leaders have replaced the head of the region's central bank in a move to further isolate the incumbent president of Ivory Coast who is refusing to give up power to the internationally-recognized winner of November's vote.West Africa's central bank in December 2010 announced it would sev ...
  • Economic Recovery on Edge - A Half Century Later, ...
    Fifty years ago this month, Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his farewell address as President that famously warned the nation about the “unwarranted influence … by the military industrial complex.” But history has mostly overlooked a second caution in that Jan. 17, 1961 speech that has even greater releva ...
  • Authors on the Road - Edwin Black Speaks on Farhud ...
    Author Edwin Black, author of the recently released bestseller The Farhud: Roots of The Arab-Nazi Alliance�in�the Holocaust, will present his findings directly to the Sephardic community of New York in a much-anticipated appearance before the American Sephardi Federation at 6:30�p.m. on January 31, ...
  • Guns in America - Firearms Vendors Raise Millions ...
    MidwayUSA is a Missouri company well known among gun enthusiasts for its firearms accessories: the company website boasts that the firm stocks “Just about everything for shooting, reloading, gunsmithing, and hunting.”These wares include high-capacity magazines similar to those used in the Arizona sh ...

High Country News

  • A marketing tune-up
    High Country News gets advice on marketing; holiday visitors; Lisa Song gets reporting job and Michelle Nijhuis wins grant; farewell, Bill Freudenburg.
  • The latest: Wyoming Range
    PXP will be allowed to develop 136 gas natural gas wells in the Wyoming Range.
  • The latest: Northern spotted owl
    According to scientific reviewers, Obama's new draft for managing the northern spotted owl is better than Bush's plan but still flawed.
  • Decades of drilling
    A graphic shows how Western states stack up against Texas and the Eastern U.S. when it comes to oil and gas drilling.
  • A dark moment, a glimmer of light
    Despite the recent tragedy in Tucson, a sense of community blooms in the West, often in unlikely soil.

CounterCurrents

  • We Need To Stop This Culture Before It Kills The P ...
    By Mickey Z. & Derrick JensenAs you begin reading this interview, take a look at the nearest clock. Now, dig this: Since yesterday at the same exact time, 200,000 acres of rainforest have been destroyed, over 100 plant and animal species have gone extinct , 13 million tons of toxic chemicals were ...
  • Driving Straight Into Catastrophe
    By Julio Godoy Despite repeated warnings by environmental and climate experts that reduction of fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions is fundamental to forestalling global warming, disaster appears imminent. According to the latest statistics, unprecedented climate change has Earth h ...
  • The Year Of Living Dangerously
    By Michael T. Klare Rising commodity prices and extreme weather events threaten global stability
  • Where Liberals Go To Feel Good
    By Chris Hedges If the liberal class remains gullible and weak, if it continues to speak to itself and others in meaningless platitudes, it will remain as responsible for our enslavement as those it pompously denounces
  • The Illusion Of Money
    By David Korten Real wealth or phantom assets? David Korten explores the difference between the kind of wealth that makes life better and the phantom wealth created by financial speculation

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Before Making False Claims Against Glenn Beck, Per ...
    Gee whiz everyone is trying to get into the act.� People keep popping out of the woodwork wanting to be spokesmen for the Jews and Just so they can attack Glenn Beck with false claims of Antisemitism.� Most of the attacks come from the hypocritical� Media Matters. Sometimes they enlist fellow progre ...
  • Will Obama Give The Unions a Gift That Will Put US ...
    Prior to the Obama Administration, Unionization was forbidden for the TSA. It was felt that unionization would endanger national security and� put traveler's lives at risk. No matter what you think of the TSA, they are the only thing we have protecting us from terrorists entering the country via ai ...
  • NLRB Looking To Impose Card Check Over the Will Of ...
    Remember card check? That provision in the Employee Free Choice Act that takes away free choice for workers by eliminating the secret ballot? While Card check has been around for decades, the proposal was for the "card check" to supersede the secret ballot for union votes.� Many people think that ...
  • Chris ChristieTurned Down Opportunity to Give SOTU ...
    In a way this was NJ Governor Chris Christie's firm response to those who ask about his desire to seek National office. According to the Newark Star Ledger, the NJ Governor whose fiscal policies and blunt talk is quickly making him a favorite of conservatives was offed the opportunity to give the Re ...
  • Guerrilla Flotilla Probe: Israel acted in accordan ...
    By IsraeliGirl The inquiry committee appointed by Israel to investigate the events that occured on May 31st on the Mavi Marmara has released its report. Headed by Honorable Supreme Court Justice Emeritus Jacob Turkel and and including jurists and world-renowned experts as well as internati ...

The Real Agenda

  • Global Health Fund Drowns in Corruption
    The Fund was created as an alternative to the United Nations, which long has been accused of allowing its bureaucracy of consuming too much money intended for humanitarian programs. AP A $21.7 billion development fund backed by celebrities and hailed as an alternative to the bureaucracy of the Unite ...
  • Fallacies about Global Warming
    By John McLean It is widely alleged that the science of global warming is “settled”. This implies that all the major scientific aspects of climate change are well understood and uncontroversial, and that scientists are now just mopping up unimportant details. The allegation is profoundly untrue: fo ...
  • Working for them: Obama takes in another Corporati ...
    The Administration that promised to end corporate management of the government is now fully loaded with Wall Street and corporation insiders to manage what “The Man” cannot. NationalJournal.com President Obama today will name General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt chairman of the new Council on Jobs and C ...
  • The Downfall of Science and the Rise of Intellectu ...
    By Mike Adams The very reputation of so-called “science” has been irreparably damaged by the invocation of the term “science” by GMO lackeys, pesticide pushers, mercury advocates and fluoride poisoners who all claim to have science on their side. It seems that every toxin, contamination and chemical ...
  • 26 States Join Suit Against Obamacare
    Virginia Federal Judge had ruled unconstitutional the mandate to purchase health insurance. Fox News.com Six more states joined a lawsuit in Florida against President Obama’s health care overhaul on Tuesday, meaning more than half of the country is challenging the law. The announcement was made as H ...

Wind Watch

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

Not My Tribe

  • Bradley Manning’s heroism magnified
    PFC Bradley Manning’s last approved visitor David House was denied access to visit the Adrian-Lamo-named Wikileaks source, in this eighth month of solitary confinement without charges. Last week Manning’s lawyer described the conditions endured by his client: For 23 hours per day, he will sit in his ...
  • Pink Punk Party – Yapolitical – The we ...
    Pink Punk Party – Yapolitical
  • Iran had ‘preconditions’ for nuclear t ...
    Actually Baroness Ashton and other “diplomats” said they were “disappointed”. Baroness Ashton led a delegation from France, Germany, Russia, the UK, US and China, at the two-day talks. The international team had proposed a new version of a plan to keep Iranian enrichment within civilian-grade levels ...
  • The dude has cast iron balls… or a corporate ...
    If it’s the nutsack or the sponsor, it’s a big one. Baby Doc Duvalier in Haiti called for national reconciliation, said he only came back to help Haiti How very noble, but a better help would be for him to send back the money he stole, YEARS AGO, taken the entire responsibility for Haiti’s national ...
  • Questions for Ed and Herb Weinberg to ask Lisa Cze ...
    Herb Weinberg is a retired ABC News reporter. A link to Ed and Herb teleconferencing. Herb suggests taking a list of questions to ask, here’s a few of MINE:   Yeah, actually, there’s a cop shop right there at the park. Did she KNOW that the man swearing at the Uncle Wilber fountain was actually [... ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Debunkers are Losing the Propaganda War ! Poll in ...
    A recent poll in the german magazine "Welt der Wunder" conducted by the well known Emnid Institute results in astonishing 89% of the german respondents not believing the official line 9/11. The magazine in 2010 already published the story of NATOs "secret nuclear war", where the consequences of the ...
  • Jim Corr Omits Info about Roaring Fires in WTC 7
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog posted musician Jim Corr's recent interview today and states: It's a collection of talking points on WTC-7: 1. Three buildings, two planes 2. Freefall speed into its own footprint 3. Accounts of explosions (note that Corr fails to mention the firefighters w ...
  • Jim Corr & Lord Monckton on Irish TV
    Some great info about 9/11 from Jim Corr, including the nanothermite. He knows his stuff. Lord Monckton focused solely on the issue of climate sensitivity, which is the most important question in the climate change debate: How much does CO2 affect temperature? The two debunkers in the audience we ...
  • 'Terror' in My Home Town
    The Shires re-opens after bomb squad blow suspect package up Shoppers and staff have been allowed back into The Shires shopping centre in Trowbridge after bomb disposal experts blew up an abandoned suitcase shortly before 3.30pm today. The controlled explosion was initiated by the Royal Logistics ...
  • Mike Adams on the invocation of 'Science' by defen ...
    The downfall of science and the rise of intellectual tyranny (NaturalNews) The very reputation of so-called "science" has been irreparably damaged by the invocation of the term "science" by GMO lackeys, pesticide pushers, mercury advocates and fluoride poisoners who all claim to have science on thei ...

Fooducate

  • Coming Soon? Nutrition Labels on Wine and Booze
    Do you know how many calories are in that glass of 2008 Pinot Noir you’ve paired with your appetizer? Or how many carbs are in that Bud-Light? Truth be told, many of us are clueless when it comes to alcoholic beverages, simply because there is no nutrition labeling on them. Alcohol is regulated by t ...
  • Starbucks: Super Size & Other News
    Lots of things happening at Starbucks lately. 1. The company is revamping its logo. after several decades of text plus mermaid, the new logo is all graphics. 2. In response to challenges from McDonald’s and other, a new super-size TRENTA will be introduced this May for select cold beverages. Why go ...
  • How Can 100% Nectar Contain Added Water and Sugars ...
    Here’s an email (and picture) we got from Tracy: A couple of months ago I bought an attractive two liter of Jumex Mango Juice for my boys.  It said “100% Nectar”!  Well, it was anything but.  I looked at the label when I got home and found it was juice concentrates, high fructose corn syrup, [... ...
  • Wal-Mart’s Nutrition Initiative: Smoke ‘n Mirrors ...
    140 Million people shop at Wal-mart every week. It is the largest grocery chain in the US, with almost 30% of sales, according to some sources. 10% of PepsiCo’s products are sold at Wal-Mart, and 16% of Kraft’s. That’s why when Wal-Mart announces a new Nutrition Initiative everybody listens. And tha ...
  • Food Supplements and Childhood Obesity
    This is a guest post by pediatrician and childhood obesity expert Robert A. Pretlow. There actually are products, similar to baby formula, for children who have outgrown babyhood.  And not just hospitalized kids on nasogastric tube feedings, or third-world kids on emergency relief aid, but healthy, ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Derisory sentences for torture video soldiers
    Footage of the torture was released on the internet in October. © Survival Three Indonesian soldiers who were captured on video torturing two Papuan villagers last May, were sentenced on Monday to between eight and ten months in prison. Human rights organizations have condemned the short senten ...
  • One year after extinction of Bo, Andaman tribe in ...
    Boa Sr was the last member of the Bo tribe. © Alok Das One year after the death of the last member of the Bo tribe of the Andaman Islands (January 26), Survival has warned that the neighbouring Jarawa tribe is also in danger. Boa Sr, the last of the Bo, died last January aged around 85. The J ...
  • Palm oil expansion threatens Palawan tribe
    Palm oil plantation, Peru. Much of the land used to grow biofuels such as palm oil is the ancestral land of tribal peoples. © Thomas Quirynen/Survival The Philippine government’s push to expand palm oil plantations is threatening the members of the Palawan tribe living in the lowlands of Palaw ...
  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Ireland: With left wing parties like these, who ne ...
    Betrayal is ash in the mouth: This followed successful negotiations this evening in Dublin between Ireland‘s finance minister Brian Lenihan and the finance spokespersons of the opposition parties to pass the finance bill by Saturday. They agreed to a timetable to pass the crucial finance bill that w ...
  • Carl Safina’s “View From Lazy Point”: Expanding th ...
    There is a life lived within the rhythm of the seasons and the embrace of the land.  A life where cry of the chickadee announces a new season, a world where the return of salmon, silver in the whitewater, is celebrated as much, or more, than any holiday.  In this life, the sheltered bend of [...]
  • Independents Return to Obama…
    … now that the election is over.  And I’m going to agree with Mandos, some people really do want “bipartisanship” of the sort Obama is now offering.  Or, more accurately, they like Obama now that he is moderating the governing party (the Republicans, who are actually driving policy now.) The probl ...
  • Ireland: With left wing parties like these, who ne ...
    Betrayal is ash in the mouth: This followed successful negotiations this evening in Dublin between Ireland‘s finance minister Brian Lenihan and the finance spokespersons of the opposition parties to pass the finance bill by Saturday. They agreed to a timetable to pass the crucial finance bill that w ...
  • Carl Safina’s “View From Lazy Point&#8 ...
    There is a life lived within the rhythm of the seasons and the embrace of the land.  A life where cry of the chickadee announces a new season, a world where the return of salmon, silver in the whitewater, is celebrated as much, or more, than any holiday.  In this life, the sheltered bend of [...]

Age of Autism

  • Call Me Irresponsible
    By Norm Roberts I had pertussis as an infant. It had no lasting impact on me but it traumatized my parents. For the rest of his life my dad talked about pacing the floor with me in his arms while...
  • Dr. Andrew Wakefield Defends Himself on Fox News
    Dr. Andrew Wakefield was on Fox New this weekend. Here is the direct link HERE.
  • Age of Autism Donation Thank You Gift
    We've updated our thank you gift for donating to Age of Autism. When you donate, if you will kindly give us your mailing address in the PayPal "info" area, we'll send you this indoor/outdoor 4 x 6" magnet for your...
  • The Brother Code
    By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. "Hey, what do you think about all the news on Wakefield?" my brother asked over the phone. He had called me. This was a rare occurence. Usually I call him. He's my older brother, just a...
  • Cryshame Statement and a Thank You from Dr. Wakefi ...
    From CryShame.org: In view of the latest attacks by Brian Deer on the reputations of Professor John Walker-Smith and Dr Andrew Wakefield published in the British Medical Journal, CryShame is stating its continuing support for these doctors who took seriously...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Food Freedom Betrayal!
    Organic Consumers Association Funded by Big Pharma! Our food supply is in jeopardy. Not only from outside forces such as poisons from China, but from within. The very people that we look to for guidance seem to be working together to lead us straight into global food governance in the form of Codex ...
  • 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.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Irish government in chaos as Greens quit coalition
    The Irish government was plunged into chaos today as the junior coalition Green Party pulled out over the dramatic resignation of Taoiseach Brian Cowen as leader of the ruling Fianna Fail party. John Gormley, leader and Environment Minister, said his party had lost patience with Fianna Fail and coul ...
  • USA: Mortgage Giants Leave Legal Bills to the Taxp ...
    NY Times – Since the government took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, taxpayers have spent more than $160 million defending the mortgage finance companies and their former top executives in civil lawsuits accusing them of fraud. The cost was a closely guarded secret until last week, when the compani ...
  • Climate Fact Of The Day: Uncertainty in the global ...
    Energy and Environment, Volume 21, Number 8 / December 2010 DOI: 10.1260/0958-305X.21.8.969 UNCERTAINTY IN THE GLOBAL AVERAGE SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE INDEX: A REPRESENTATIVE LOWER LIMIT Author: Patrick Frank, Palo Alto, CA 94301-2436, USA, Abstract Sensor measurement uncertainty has never been fully ...
  • Soldiers jailed over Papuan torture case
    ABC – Three Indonesian soldiers who tortured two Papuan men last year have been sentenced by a military tribunal amid criticism from human rights activists. A soldier who held a burning stick to the genitals of a bound and naked Papuan man received nine months in jail. A colleague who held a knife t ...
  • At least 26 people killed in Iraq bomb blasts
    The Independent – Two car bombs tore through parking lots packed with Shiite pilgrims today in an Iraqi holy city, pushing the death toll from a week of attacks to more than 170. The uptick in violence poses a major test for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s new and somewhat shaky coalition governmen ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Federal agencies to align with California on new c ...
    DOT, California's CARB and EPA pair up on release date for clean car proposals
  • China leapfrogs U.S. wind power industry, American ...
    Chinese turbines are now harnessing more wind power than machines installed in the U.S., according to a trade group Monday. For the first time ever, the Asian giant’s capacity –- the amount of electricity that can be generated using wind...
  • Nevada's wild mustangs: Officials reject philanthr ...
    A proposal from the wife of Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens to create a sanctuary in Nevada for wild horses removed from public rangeland around the West has been rejected, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management said Friday. Madeleine Pickens'...
  • Bloom Energy announces new fuel cell financing opt ...
    Bloom Energy on Thursday announced a new financing program that cuts out the upfront cost of purchasing, installing and maintaining one of the company’s fuel cells and instead allows customers to buy only the clean electricity produced. Chief Executive K.R....
  • Climate change assumption could need tinkering, st ...
    “These datasets provide us with an unprecedented view” of the large-scale changes in plant distribution that have occurred the past 75 years in California, said co-author Solomon Dobrowski, an assistant forest management professor at the University of Montana.

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Ex-Jerusalem pol asks the US to intervene to keep ...
    Israel seems intent on doing all it can, while it can, to make any future Palestinian state totally non-viable, much like the South African attempt at controllable Bantustans or homelands.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • If Obama saw what white phosphorus did to the kids ...
    I thought - I felt it was disingenuous and an insult and manipulative to our country. And yet that's where we were at. We were begging for lentils, for goodness sakes, to get in, instead of saying, "Look, this is unjust. It's unlawful.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a C ...
  • Trust in Fox News in Sharp Decline; PBS is Most Tr ...
    Both moderates (from -15 to -32) and liberals (from -40 to -76) have almost completely abandoned Fox. But it remains the most trusted by any one ideological group (conservatives, at 72-16) of any of the networks except PBS' 76-11 with liberals. Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture �|� �Not ...
  • 'U.K. to consider UN censure of Israel's West Bank ...
    "Ongoing settlement expansion runs counter to the interests of both countries and against commitments Israel itself has made," a J Street statement saidSubmitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • New Mexico Governor Violating Constitution for Pol ...
    The problem is, New Mexico's newly elected conservative governor, Republican Susana Martinez - who has financial ties to oil and gas producers and individuals - has attempted to subvert her own state constitution in order to stop this plan...Submitted by Carrie Burton to Environment �|� �Note-it! � ...

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