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Thomas Paine

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

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

25 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt 3

Open Your Eyes News

  • Smoking puts DNA at risk in 15 minutes
    New Scientist – HERE’S another reason to kick the habit: within minutes of inhaling, regular smokers produce chemicals that cause genetic damage linked with cancer. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) present in tobacco smoke are one of the main culprits behind lung cancer. In the body they form ...
  • 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 ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Iranian Media: 5 +1 Rebuffed Tehran’s Offers in Nu ...
    “Iran did not make any concessions; Negotiations without results” was the January 23 headline of Kayhan, the largest state-run newspaper in Iran with close ties to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Kayhan blasted the P5+1 for “asking for too much” and blamed the West for refusing to accept Iran’s “innova ...
  • China's Rise: The Kung Fu Film Version
    As a fundamental part of what I consider to be my parental duties, I've been broadening my son's already healthy exposure to kung fu movies over the past few months. And I'm repeatedly struck by how many insights they offer into the formative folklore that animates modern-day China. Like Westerns fo ...
  • Reality Check on “Sanctuaries” in Pakistan
    A New York Times report on Pakistani sanctuaries last Monday suggested that the presence of safe-havens has made it easier to target terrorists with drone attacks. Pakistani Army operations in the other six of seven tribal areas near the border with Afghanistan have helped drive fighters from Al Qae ...
  • Fifty Years Later: Not Just Military, Still Indust ...
    As long as we're talking about which government spending Republicans are and aren't willing to cut, it's worth remembering that today is the 50th anniversary of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address, in which he warned about the dangers of the "military-industrial complex." An excerpt f ...
  • Central African Republic Votes Amid Fighting
    The Central African Republic is a culturally and environmentally-diverse country with incredible natural resources holding new presidential and general elections this week. But hope is cautious amid widespread poverty and three distinct violent conflicts, including an armed intervention by neighbori ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: This Will be the Greatest SOTU of ...
    John Heilemann's long New York magazine cover story on the retooling of the Obama presidency is a good read but it's still just a well-honed version of the old "Obama needs to reconnect with the country" narrative we've been seeing for the past year. I'm perfectly willing to concede that Obama's pe ...
  • The Little Picture: Bachmann Absolves the Founding ...
    (Flickr/theqspeaks) Rep. Michele Bachmann, who said in a speech over the weekend that while slavery had been a "scourge," the framers of the Constitution "worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States."
  • Nerd Blogging: Remakes vs. Reboots.
    Shani O. Hilton, guest-blogging for Ta-Nehisi Coates, uses the recent James Bond films to argue against the cinematic reboot: Last year, I argued against a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot. Having some distance from the immediate argument, I now think what generally sets me against reboots is thi ...
  • The Candidate's Bubble.
    Kevin Drum says something that I sort of agree with, but I think begs for some elaboration: And while we're on the subject of why not a single Republican has announced a presidential candidacy yet — yep, that's the subject — isn't the answer obvious? It's because they all know Barack Obama is as go ...
  • Who Decides?
    There's not a lot I can add to fellow TAPPED contributor�Pema Levy's excellent response to William Saletan, who asks whether�abortions past the point of viability should be granted when the health of the mother is not at stake. But I did want to emphasize a couple of points. First, Saletan deserve ...

Buzzflash

  • China Bests U.S. Because Fools With Uncle Sam Hats ...
    MARK KARLIN, BUZZFLASH EDITOR FOR TRUTHOUT Put aside the Fox fraudcasting lies and Tea Party vitriol for awhile. The state visit of President Hu Jintao of China has shown how the delusional triumphalism of the right wing has hampered America's growth. It's nice to take a walk down Disneyland's ...
  • Hyatt Files Charges Against San Francisco Hotel Un ...
    CARL FINAMORE FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Within hours of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Martin Luther King's national holiday coming to an end on Monday, January 17, San Francisco Grand Hyatt management called an early morning Tuesday press conference to denounce the hotel union, Local 2, UNITE-HER ...
  • Bernie Sanders Denounces Approval of Comcast Takeo ...
    NEWS ALERT FROM SEN. BERNIE SANDERS Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement after the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice approved Comcast's bid to take control of NBC Universal from General Electric: "The Federal Communications Commission and the De ...
  • Joementum Won’t Run For Another Term
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT He first became well-known as Gore's VP. I remember thinking, "Oh, hell." Lieberman's the reason I've always wanted To make Al give back his Nobel.read more
  • Bradley Manning Walks in the Footsteps of Dr. Mart ...
    "The world now demands a maturity of America that we may not be able to achieve. It demands that we admit that we have been wrong. . . that we have been detrimental to . . .life . . . . The situation is one in which we must be ready to turn sharply from our present ways," said Dr. Martin Luther King ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • A tetralogy of science news
    Four more picks from the latest science news by David Bradley Tales of the unexpected: a night with Tim Radford – My mentor at The Guardian, Tim Radford, told tales of science writing at a special event last week and warned the audience that the public can be very squeamish about new scientific prac ...
  • Even more science news
    Science news snippets from the net meanderings of David Bradley Fighting malaria without DDT = FAIL – Review suggests DDT essential in fight against malaria, despite claims for green approaches. A new research paper exposes allegedly false claims and misrepresentations of science by United Nations e ...
  • Free chemistry dictionary
    UPDATE: 2011-01-20 Version 3.0 of the chemistry dictionary is now available. Now, with crowd-sourced, user-submitted words and an OpenOffice.org dictionary extension. “It took me the better part of a month,” Azman told us, “but I’ve made my own and I want it to be as open-source as possible. Chemspy ...
  • Social networking with research data
    I’d previously used the phrase “Napster for Research Papers” when thinking about Mendeley. Mendeley lets you upload your own research papers to your personal library under publishers’ fair use agreements and to share them with their peers as you might share a traditional paper reprint. So, maybe Nap ...
  • Even more science news
    Science news snippets from the net meanderings of David Bradley Sir David King on climate change – King said, “We hear enough from the climate change skeptics that I have to repeat some fundamentals that you’ve probably heard before.” Fifty-five million years ago, atmospheric CO2 concentrations stoo ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Obama Administration Plan to Open Contractor Datab ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 24, 2011Project On Government Oversight (POGO)The Obama administration’s plan to provide public access to a database tracking contractor and grantee responsibility performance falls short of the transparency the president had promised, the Project On Government Oversigh ...
  • Hawai`i Introduces Critical Legislation to Protect ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 24, 2011Food & Water Watch"On Monday, The Hawai`i State Legislature introduced two significant bills: one to stop the reckless expansion of factory fish farms operating in the state's pristine coastal waters (HB221) and another to require fish farming corporations to ...
  • Strike Two for Front-of-Package Food Labeling
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 24, 2011Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)In 2009, the food industry's fatally flawed Smart Choices labeling program became a national laughingstock for putting its logo on junk foods like Froot Loops and Frosted Flakes. Today, the industry is striking ...
  • Kucinich: What Will We Sacrifice for These Wars?
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 24, 2011Congressman Dennis KucinichCongressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today opened up the debate on efforts to cut the federal budget by pointing out that more than half of our discretionary spending is consumed by the budget for the Pentagon and asking what Americans a ...
  • Key Wild Area on Rocky Mountain Front Protected
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 24, 2011Earthjustice A federal judge has upheld a precedent-setting U.S. Forest Service decision to ban off-road vehicle (ORV) travel in the spectacular Badger-Two Medicine region of northern Montana's Rocky Mountain Front. Located just southeast of Glacier National Pa ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • This Seemingly Endless and Ugly Game of the Peace ...
    by Karma NabulsiIt's over. Given the shocking nature, extent and detail of these ghastly revelations from behind the closed doors of the Middle East peace process, the seemingly endless and ugly game is now, finally, over. Not one of the villains on the Palestinian side can survive it.read more
  • Palestine Papers: Now We Know. Israel had a Peace ...
    by Jonathan FreedlandWho will be most damaged by this extraordinary glimpse into the reality of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process? Perhaps the first casualty will be Palestinian national pride, their collective sense of dignity in adversity badly wounded by the papers revealed today.read more
  • The Market Won’t Fix States’ Woes
    by Nicole GelinasBond-market brinkmanship and bankruptcy threats can't save the states from themselves.As budget season opens, many states - including Massachusetts - face their toughest choices yet on education, social services, and public-worker costs, plus the taxes needed to pay for them. Federa ...
  • The War on Drugs is Lost
    by Fernando Henrique CardosoSAO PAULO—The war on drugs is a lost war, and 2011 is the time to move away from a punitive approach in order to pursue a new set of policies based on public health, human rights and common sense. These are the core findings of the Latin American Commission on Drugs an ...
  • The State of the Union: What the President Should ...
    by Robert ReichThe President will have to devote a big part of his speech to the economy, but which economy? Corporate profits are up but jobs and wages remain in the doldrums. People with lots of financial assets, or who are deemed “talent” by large corporations, are enjoying a solid recovery. ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • The Private CIA That's Been Driving Af/Pak Agenda
    By Steve Hynd Today, the NYT's Mark Mazzetti decided to burn what appears to have been one of the newspapers - and the U.S. government's - prime sources on all things lurid in Af/Pak. Ex- Iran/Contra liar Duane “Dewey” Clarridge, a former head of the CIA’s Latin American operations who was the first ...
  • Obama's War, One Year Later: 195 Million Say No to ...
    By Robert Greenwald Next month will mark the one-year anniversary of the launch of President Obama's escalated military campaign in Afghanistan. One year later, violence is still getting worse and costs are skyrocketing. After more than nine years, it's time to end this war. Take a strong p ...
  • From Military-Industrial Complex to Permanent War ...
    By Gareth Porter Fity years after Dwight D. Eisenhower’s January 17, 1961 speech on the “military-industrial complex”, that threat has morphed into a far more powerful and sinister force than Eisenhower could have imagined. It has become a “Permanent War State”, with the power to keep the United Sta ...
  • Mosul: A Lesson For Kandahar
    By Steve Hynd Yesterday, two more American soldiers engaged in "non-combat activities" were shot to death in Iraq, and a third was wounded. They were killed by an Iraqi soldier who smuggled live ammunition into a training exercise and then turned his gun on his trainers. While this type of "friendly ...
  • Joe Klein Has No Clue
    By Steve Hynd This week's TIME has a piece by veteran fan of armed interventions, Joe Klein, risably entitled "What it will take to finish the job in Afghanistan". It's worth a read as an example of how the U.S. hasn't a blessed clue how to accomplish any such thing, being a precis of the convention ...

Water Wars

  • Not quite what poet meant
    WASHINGTON — The 19th century English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge could never have guessed how he'd be conscripted into California's partisan water wars.
  • Senator says water wars Georgia's #1 issue
    Senator Saxby Chambliss says Governor Nathan Deal's federal perspective will help in Georgia's water issue.
  • Environmental Issues Subject of Film Series
    KENT—The Environmental Summit Film Fest will begin a five-part series on Jan. 25. This year the series will be held at Kent School in the Dickenson auditorium on Tuesday evenings at 7:30. The series leads into the Environmental Summit on Feb 26.
  • Environmental Issues Subject of Film Series
    KENT—The Environmental Summit Film Fest will begin a five-part series on Jan. 25. This year the series will be held at Kent School in the Dickenson auditorium on Tuesday evenings at 7:30. The series leads into the Environmental Summit on Feb 26.
  • Environmental Issues Subject of Film Series
    KENT—The Environmental Summit Film Fest will begin a five-part series on Jan. 25. This year the series will be held at Kent School in the Dickenson auditorium on Tuesday evenings at 7:30. The series leads into the Environmental Summit on Feb 26.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

  • Afghan infants addicted to opium
    Opium addiction in Afghanistan is reaching chronic levels due a lack of hospital care and the high costs of medical aid, which make ingesting the drug more appealing, leading to chronic addiction problems.
  • Unease after ex-official's death in Taliban c ...
    The death in captivity of former Pakistani intelligence official Sultan Amir Tarar almost a year after he was kidnapped by militants has caused unease among officials and the militants themselves, said a prominent analyst.
  • Afghan mums feed infants opium
    In a far-flung part of northern Afghanistan, there's a town where kids are fed pure opium.
  • Market gutted in Kabul
    A massive fire engulfed a market in the Afghanistan capital city Monday evening, and turned to ashes goods worth around $4 million, a media report said.
  • Afghanistan's Overcrowded Capital Submerged i ...
    By Yalda Aslami KABUL, Afghanistan, January 24, 2011 (ENS) - Mohammad Aref and his family are not looking forward to the Kabul summer. Last year, it meant stifling months shut up in the family home

Futurismic

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

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • More Thoughts on the Special IG for Afghanistan Re ...
    In a letter to the editor published yesterday in The New York Times, Representative Mike Honda (D-CA) offered an important reminder as to why filling the vacancy of Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) should be a top priority...
  • Quote of the Day
    By Bryan Rahija A former Congressional Research Service (CRS) analyst reflects on changes that took place under outgoing CRS Director Daniel P. Mulhollan: In 2003, Dan invented a new standard of ‘neutrality’ that prohibits any analyst, no matter the weight...
  • Federal Government Becoming a Contractor Grievance ...
    By Scott Amey Today, a new rule has been proposed paving the way toward public access to the federal government’s contractor performance and responsibility database, the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System (FAPIIS). FAPIIS lays out the track records...
  • Morning Smoke: Government's Contractor Responsibil ...
    Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. Contractor performance...
  • Top Federal Contractors Rank Among 2010's Biggest ...
    By Bryan Rahija Do-gooder online media platform GOOD has published a fun new infographic illustrating which companies spent the most money on advertising in the first three quarters of 2010. Among the big spenders are three of the top 100...

Digital Journal

  • SUI investigating death of man in police custody
    A man died on Sunday afternoon after being taken into custody by Toronto Police. His death is being investigated by Ontario's Special Investigations Unit.
  • SUI investigating man's death in Ontario
    On Saturday evening a man who had locked himself in a room after police responded to a domestic call on Innisville Beach Road was pronounced dead.
  • Satirical 'People for Corporate Tax Cuts' campaign ...
    A new type of satirical campaign has been launched throughout various Toronto Transit Commission bus stops. The campaign called "People for Corporate Tax Cuts" takes a satirical slant at the government's economic policies.
  • Thou Shalt not Mock or It May Cost You Your Life
    In the wake of the murder of Salmaan Taseer, the Governor of Punjab a couple weeks back, I did a great deal of contemplation about the situation in Pakistan and the current state of affairs of Pakistan and indeed in much of the Muslim world.
  • Commit to Kids aims to reduce child sexual abuse
    On Thursday Toronto Police launched a new public-awareness campaign in partnership with The Canadian Centre for Child Protection, Public Safety Canada and the Ministry of the Attorney General (Civil Remedies Grant Program) called 'Commit to Kids.'

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Winslow Wheeler on F-35 purchase
    In this written statement to the Standing Committee on National Defence, Director Winslow T. Wheeler of the Straus Military Reform Project uses his American experience to offer valuable insight to the Canadian government on the purchase of F-35 stealth fighters. (Winslow T. Wheeler,"Canada's Next Ge ...
  • Ernie Regehr awarded Pearson Peace Medal
    Congratulations to Project Ploughshares’ co-founder Ernie Regehr on being awarded the Pearson Peace Medal! The medal is awarded by the United Nations Association in Canada to a Canadian who has personally contributed, through his or her working life and voluntary commitments, to causes to which Lest ...
  • Protesters in Halifax speak out against F-35
    The Halifax Peace Coalition held a protest against the Conservative government’s decision to buy the F-35 fighter-bomber on January 17th, which was Martin Luther King Jr. Day and also the 50th anniversary of U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower’s speech warning of the dangers of the military-industrial ...
  • NDP on Canada in Afghanistan
    This afternoon at the Centre for Policy Studies (CIPS), University of Ottawa - The Hon. Jack Layton delivered a confident and passionate address regarding Canada's leadership on the mission in Afghanistan.
  • President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 1961 farewell spe ...
    Video: Fifty years ago, on January 17, 1961, Americans gathered around their TV sets to watch President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell speech from the White House. He warned the American people about the growth in economic power and political influence of an immense military establishment and a lar ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-22-11
    Today, Kevin explains how the internet is causing even more censorship than ever before and how collective thoughts are creating the future! Self Help: Water Filtration System    Protect Yourself    Cell Phone Protector      Video: Bob Basso As Thomas Paine    Truth About Multi-Level Marketing    He ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-21-11
    Today, Kevin gives you his advice on how to lower high blood pressure and what to do if you have bad body odor. Self Help: Weight Loss Cure Lose A Pound A Day! Natural Deodorant Oral Chelation Rid Your Body of Candida Get The Toxins Out Health: The Truth Behind Genetically Modified Food Garlic & Vin ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-20-11
    Today, Kevin exposes the truth behind negotiating at pawn shops and how award shows are just 100% shams. Self Help: Healthy Hair Dye      Stay Away From Teflon     Get Rid Of Emotion Pain    Protection From Toxins      Health: College Kids Are Depressed    Toxic Chemical Threatens New York City Publ ...
  • Social Security Is in Far Worse Shape Than You Thi ...
    January 19th, 2011 Daily Finance By: Charles Hugh Smith For years, politicians and policymakers have reassured the American public that the Social Security system, which sends monthly checks out to 53 million beneficiaries, is safely solvent — and will be for decades to come. But federal spending an ...
  • WikiLeaks Has Secret Cables on Murdoch & News Corp ...
    January 19th, 2011 AOL News By: Theunis Bates Not content with riling the U.S. government and military, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange warns that he has a stash of potentially damaging secret documents on the world’s most powerful media mogul: Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch. In an interview in this ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • Israel sees threat from “delegitimizers”
    Reuters reports: Foreign protests, boycotts, embargoes and sanctions, along with internal resistance, helped bring about the isolation and eventually the end of apartheid in South Africa in the 1990s. Now Israelis fear pro-Palestinian, or anti-Israeli, activists are using the same tactics against ...
  • Tunisian army ‘will protect the revolution’
    Reuters reports: The Tunisian army general who refused to back president Zine al-Abdine Ben Ali’s crackdown on protesters warned on Monday that a political vacuum could bring back dictatorship and vowed to protect the revolution. “Our revolution is your revolution. The revolution of the youth coul ...
  • The Palestine Papers — live updates
    3.30: Mark Perry and Ali Abunimah describe how the Obama administration, contrary the image it presented as being willing to put pressure on the Netanyahu government, has in fact never swerved from the role of acting as “Israel’s lawyer”: A series of six key documents dating from February of 2009 â ...
  • The Palestine Papers
    Introducing the Palestine Papers: Over the last several months, 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 inn ...
  • Michael Klare: resource revolts
    Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com He was a poor 26-year-old trying to eke out a living and help pay for his sisters’ schooling.  He met the deep corruption of the Tunisian regime face to face in the most everyday and humiliating way — in the form of bribes he couldn’t afford just to keep ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Is the ENSO a nonlinear oscillator of the Belousov ...
    Alternative title: âStanding on the shoulders of Giant Bobâ Guest post by Phil Salmon Introduction One of the themes to emerge from the climate debate here on WUWT, concerns âchaosâ and nonlinear system dynamics and pattern. Anyone acquainted at all … Continue reading →
  • Browner out at the White House – Hansen bite ...
    The plot thickens: White House aides Monday were mum about what would happen to the Office of Energy and Climate Change except to declare that Browner, a former Senate staffer to Al Gore, believed energy issues would remain front and … Continue reading →
  • Flawed ‘Climategate’ Inquiries Failed to Restore C ...
    Press Release London, 25 January: The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) remains deeply concerned about the failure by academic and parliamentary inquires to fully and independently investigate the ‘Climategate’ affair. The latest follow-up report by the Science and Technology Committee … Conti ...
  • What is it with Virginia?
    We have the ongoing Wegman and the Mashey/DeepClimate “Copygate dustup” at Fairfax based George Mason University, now we have even more going on in Virginia. It seems we have dueling witchhunts. Exhibit A: The usual angry rhetoric over some MediaMatters … Continue reading →
  • Monbiot’s prediction – 1 year to go
    Just one year to go to check on the accuracy of this prediction, claimed by warming proponent George Monbiot in 2002. Haunting the Library writes: Within as little as 10 years, the world will be faced with a choice: arable … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Prisons for Profit By Timothy V. Gatto
    By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com January 25, 2011 The United States, according to the New York Times , has 5% of the World’s population and 25% of all people incarcerated on the planet! In reality, in the United States, one in every hundred people are in so ...
  • Dennis Kucinich: What are we going to Sacrifice fo ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich Washington, Jan 24, 2011 Kucinich Brings the Cost of War to Budget Debate 1 Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today opened up the debate on efforts to cut the federal budget by pointing out that more than half of our discretiona ...
  • Washington State Joins Movement For Public Banking ...
    by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com January 24, 2011 Bills were introduced on January 18 in both the House and Senate of the Washington State Legislature that add Washington to the growing number of states now actively moving to create public banking facilities. The bills, H ...
  • Discussing The Palestine Papers
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ AlJazeeraEnglish | January 23, 2011 Shlomo Ben Ami, former Israeli Foreign Minister, Daud Abdullah, director of Middle east monitor UK and Ali Abunimah, co-founder of Electronic Intifada make up the panel of analysts who discuss the Palestine Papers. Discussing t ...
  • Where Liberals Go to Feel Good by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig January 24, 2011 Barack Obama is another stock character in the cyclical political theater embraced by the liberal class. Act I is the burst of enthusiasm for a Democratic candidate who, through clever branding and public relations, appears fi ...

Your New Reality

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    John Gray reviews Ha-Joon Chang's 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism : ...free market policies rarely make poor countries richer; global companies without national roots belong in the realm of myth; the US does not have the highest living standards in the world; the washing machine ch ...
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    Beautiful Russian animation from Anatoly Petrov in 1978. The subject matter is fascinating, more so considering how close the war industry is to linking the human mind directly to weapons :
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    Mute the sound on this video, taken during the Southeast Queensland floods last week, before you watch it. The music destroys the atmosphere, there should be silence, the only sound that of water lapping.
  • No title
    Hey Gun Massacre Guy! We're Gonna Make You Famous! Just Like You Wanted! By Darryl Mason It was once forbidden in newspaper journalism to write that someone had committed suicide, even if they were famous, a prime minister, a movie star. The fear, based in what has long seemed to be pretty solid e ...
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    There's so much to say about this wonderful, brilliant lecture by Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy author Douglas Adams, but I'm not going to spoil any of it. Just get through the first 10 minutes or so and you'll find it almost impossible to stop listening. I had to tear myself away from it at 3am, ...

Wired - Science

  • 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Al-Jazeera: The Palestine Papers
    Read Al-Jazeera's comprehensive coverage of the leaked Israeli-Palestinian negotiations documents. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • Alistair Crooke: Misunderstanding Israeli motives
    Livni to Ahmed Qurei and Saeb Erekat: "Israel was established to become a national home for Jews from all over the world. The Jew gets the citizenship as soon as he steps in Israel, and therefore... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • The Guardian: Palestinian leaders weak – and incre ...
    Al-Jazeera TV , the Guardian: PA agreed to concede almost all of East Jerusalem to Israel, accept Israeli demand to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, and much more. At a meeting in November 2007,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • The Guardian: Secret papers reveal slow death of M ...
    Al-Jazeera TV , the Guardian: PA agreed to concede almost all of East Jerusalem to Israel, accept Israeli demand to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, and much more. Chief Palestinian... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • MK Zoabi: I was not summoned by Turkel Commission
    MK Hanin Zoabi (Balad) who was onboard the Marmara making its way to the Gaza Strip said on Sunday she was not summoned to testify by the Turkel Commission. "The commission purposely and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Women in Congress Outperform Men on Some Measures
    Women in Congress deliver more federal projects to their home districts than men do, even when controlling for such factors as party affiliation and ideology. Congresswomen also sponsor and co-sponsor more legislation than their male counterparts, the authors found. The study has recently been accep ...
  • UC San Diego's Conference Makes Strides to Enhance ...
    The University of California, San Diego will mark the campus's efforts towards building a diverse community at the Teaching Diversity Conference Jan. 27, an educational event where participants will share strategies for teaching diversity in university classrooms.
  • Study: Faculty on Facebook Will Not Ask Students t ...
    In a recent survey of pharmacy professors, 100 percent of the respondents who had Facebook profiles said they would not send friend requests to their current students.
  • New Md. Legislature Especially Under-Represents Wo ...
    The new Maryland legislature significantly under-represents women compared to the general population, though African American membership is less out of balance, finds a new University of Maryland study. "Minority candidates are quite effective at winning elections, but there aren't enough seeking of ...
  • Saint Joseph's University Names O'Keefe Its 27th P ...
    The Saint Joseph's University Board of Trustees elected Joseph M. O'Keefe, S.J., as the University's 27th President. Currently the dean of the Lynch School of Education at Boston College, Father O'Keefe will take office May 18, 2011. He will succeed Timothy R. Lannon, S.J., who is leaving at the end ...

Natural Health News

  • Raccoon Pool Party
    A family of wild raccoons came to have a middle-of-the-night frolic in the kiddie pool -- inflatable ball and all!
  • Female Elephants Rescue a Drowning Baby
    Mama elephants have a real motherly bond to their young.
  • Why the Media is Usually Wrong About Health Inform ...
    What if wrong answers in medical research aren�t an exception, but actually the rule? Many scholars who scrutinize health research are saying that it isn�t just an occasional individual study that has flaws, but the entire framework of medical research itself. Over and over, major pillars of conven ...
  • Magnesium Can Reduce Your Risk of Sudden Death
    New research examined the association between magnesium, which has antiarrhythmic properties, and your risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD).� The study looked at more than 88,000 women, who were followed for 26 years. The results showed that the relative risk of sudden cardiac death was significantly ...
  • Law Makers Say 'Bath Salts' a Growing Drug Problem
    Dangerous drugs are being sold as �bath salts� with names such as Ivory Wave, Red Dove and Vanilla Sky.� Some say the effects of the powders are as powerful as methamphetamines. All over the U.S., there have been emergency calls resulting from over-exposure to the stimulants the powders contain ...

Antemedius

  • Sen. Jeff Sessions - Hostage Taking In Economic La ...
    Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama is a real piece of work. He writes today in the Washington Post Editorial page today and boy oh boy it is great example of the epistemic closer that has infested the Republican Party and the Conservative Right. He starts out with the warning of dire consequences of our ...
  • Jack
    He was inaugurated fifty years ago yesterday, on January 20, 1961... and he said something that day that I've not heard from any politician since: Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of ...
  • Obama Administration Planning To Restart Gitmo Tri ...
    Graphic courtesy of lazyevaluator via Flickr File it under going down the wrong damned path, again. The New York Times is reporting that the Obama administration is preparing to lift the ban on new military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay. Shortly after he was inaugurated President Obama directed Defen ...
  • Vietnam, the Beginning of the American Empire's De ...
    The destruction of world empires have important events that trigger the final results. In the case of the American Empire that marked its apex following World War Two the climactic event was the Vietnam War and the events that flowed from it. The linchpin of destruction was launched by a military ...
  • 1997 Letter Warns Irish Bishops Not To Report Chil ...
    Picture courtesy of Rachmaninoff via Flikr Having grown up in a very Catholic family it pains me a little that the Church has been the focus of so many revelations of child abuse. That is more than balanced by my complete and total outrage that the Vatican and the entire Church hierarchy clearly ha ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • How Mercenaries Can Help Battle Piracy and Stabili ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Pirates are non-state actors who cause serious international problems that are sometimes beyond the reach or interest of most governments.  Mercenaries are non-state actors who can combat pirates without implicating the political and legal problems faced by regular armed ...
  • Even the U.N. Is Ignoring the ICC Arrest Warrants ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku OK, that’s not quite it, but still this story (weeks old I know) is somewhat surprising. UNITED NATIONS â The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Sudan last week flew a man indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court to a peace meeting in the flashpoint Abyei ...
  • Following Oklahoma, Wyoming Takes Aim at Islamic a ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Oklahoma’s controversial constitutional amendment banning Oklahoma courts from relying on Islamic and international law has inspired as similar effort in Wyoming.  I think this whole effort is largely harmless, if misguided. Still, an interesting trend in the U.S. CASPE ...
  • Do Free Trade Agreements Threaten the States? Well ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I am sympathetic to the concern, expressed in this short article, about the threat that international agreements pose to state laws.  The American states, as I’ve argued here and here, need more autonomy in foreign affairs and in their interaction with international law ...
  • Are the Israeli Settlements “War Crimes”?
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I realize that discussing the international law aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute is not exactly a new and fresh topic likely to inspire thoughtful and reasonable thinking, and yet I was struck by the aggressive tone of this NYT editorial from a representative o ...

Investigate - Breaking News

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

My Care2 Picks

  • Tip of the day: Reducing the dreaded dog smell
    As the cold weather of winter settles in, so too can the dreaded dog smell. Knowing that some people are offended by stinky dogs can make a dog owner even more self-conscious if their house starts to smell just like the dog.Submitted by Chaplain Andrea to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Mindfulness Meditation Training Changes Brain Stru ...
    Participating in an 8-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy and stress. In a study that will appear in the January 30 issue of Psychiatry Research: Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �|� �Note ...
  • Italian scientists claim to have demonstrated cold ...
    They could be on to something here, but need to know if cold-fusion is comparable in energy output and cost to space-based solar power as described by David Kagan in his monumental book Sunstroke. Are their any biohazards associated with cold-fusion?Submitted by Dan Mahony to Science & Tech �|� �No ...
  • Poisoning the Wind: Congress, Corporate Shills and ...
    We are entering a suffocating new era of greed and irresponsibility. Despite poisoning our own pool of oxygen, water, vegetation and livestock, the major energy corporations push onwards with no thought of ramifications for the rest of us.Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
  • Learning to love uncertainty
    Knowing the limits of what science can tell us, and understanding the worth of failure are all valuable tools that would improve people�s lives.The idea of something being �scientifically proven� is practically an oxymoron Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment ...

Angry Indian News

  • Report: Fox News gave GOP presidential candidates ...
    Report: Fox News gave GOP presidential candidates $55 million in free advertising | Raw Story: "Being on the Fox News payroll has its advantages.Not only did five potential Republican candidates get... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Key Republican hails ‘fabulous’ plan to slash Soci ...
    Key Republican hails ‘fabulous’ plan to slash Social Security, Medicare | Raw Story: "WASHINGTON – The top Republican on the Senate budget committee championed a plan to drastically cut Social... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • 78-year-old woman gets death threats after Beck sh ...
    78-year-old woman gets death threats after Beck shouts conspiracy | Raw Story: "A 78-year-old professor from New York became the target of death threats after Fox News conspiracy theorist Glenn Beck... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Amnesty International condemns ‘inhumane’ treatmen ...
    Amnesty International condemns ‘inhumane’ treatment of Bradley Manning | Raw Story: "The international human rights group Amnesty International has sent a letter to US Defence Secretary Robert Gates... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • US can’t link Julian Assange to Bradley Manning: r ...
    US can’t link Julian Assange to Bradley Manning: report | Raw Story: "One avenue by which the United States could press charges against Julian Assange appeared to have closed Monday, with US military... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

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, ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

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

Mondoweiss

  • Times’ Kershner uses biased Turkel history t ...
    There have been many critical examinations of New York Times articles on this website, and I’ve had my share of such posts to the point where it has gotten tiresome. But there is literally an endless supply of material. A particularly irksome error appears in today’s paper, in an article by Isabel ...
  • When Livni spoke of ethnic transfer, Abu Alaa said ...
    The breaking news is that in negotiations in 2007-2009, the Israelis sought ethnic population swaps: Jewish settlements in the West Bank would become part of Israel, while Palestinian villages in Israel would become part of the new Palestinian state. And the same records of these talks (released by ...
  • Palestine Papers: Obama rejects Bush commitment to ...
    Ali Abunimah writes on the Al Jazeera English website on how the Obama administration abandoned longstanding US policy to base the two-state solution on the 1967 border between Israel and the occupied territories, and the dangerous consequences of this decision: On 23 September 2009, Obama told the ...
  • Palestine Papers: Obama didn’t abandon all B ...
    Although the Palestine Papers are full of references from the Obama adminstration that "President Obama does not accept prior decisions by Bush" (in the words of George Mitchell), there are a few things that the current White House agrees with the last administration on. Seumas Milne and Ian Black r ...
  • Latest Palestine Papers: Plans to ‘transfer& ...
    @import "http://embed.tweetizen.com/embed.css"; Below are the Al Jazeera English and Guardian twitter feeds giving updates on the latest Palestine Papers. Al Jazeera has just released the latest papers. Some highlights from Al Jazeera English: Israel's plans to force Palestinian ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • COMISAF Assessment
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  • Common Scenes & Common Thoughts
    Common Scenes & Common Thoughts from Common Days & Nights   05 August 2009 The helicopter pilot wearing night vision goggles roared in so fast it looked as though he were crashing.� The four green Cylums (Americans call them Chemlights) mark the HLS.� While the helicopter is above the dust cl ...
  • No Young Soldiers
    10 August 2009 Sangin, Afghanistan Daily dramas unfolded, including the bangs, booms and small-arms fire that punctuated the times.� At 1800, I was preparing to go to orders with 1 Platoon, A Company of 2 Rifles, when shots from a large-caliber rifle began cracking low over base.� I passed by sni ...
  • Death in the Corn: Part III of III
    Published: 22 September 2008 Living with British troops of 2 Para at FOB Gibraltar and watching them fight, I witnessed one of the great paradoxes of Afghanistan. The troops are fighting hard and killing the enemy. They are professional and extremely competent. Their morale is high. They are ...
  • Death in the Corn: Part II of III
    Published: 17 September 2008 The ambush was set, but “Terry” Taliban didn’t step into it. The most successful hunters are not the ones who bag something every time, but the ones who hunt all the time, and 2 Para has been hunting the most dangerous prey. The soldiers of C-co 2 Para are not sure ho ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

  • 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 ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Nic Dunlop: ‘We must understand the junta&#8 ...
    British-born photojournalist Nic Dunlop first came to attention in the late 1990s as the man who tracked down Khmer Rouge leader and head of the infamous S-21 torture centre, Comrade Duch, in rural Cambodia. Dunlop’s discovery of Duch eventually led to his conviction on charges of crimes against hum ...
  • Thailand cancels reporters’ deportation
    Burmese and Belgian nationals allowed to stay until their visas expire as Thai government appears to bow to pressure from watchdogs
  • Aid drops to pre-Nargis levels
    Burma now receiving lower overseas development assistance than Cambodia, despite having a population three times the size
  • Army officials moved to govt ministries
    Around 1700 military officials have taken up roles in government departments since elections as administrative shake-up continues
  • Exiled print press goes quiet
    Influential news group The Irrawaddy becomes latest victim of global recession as funding cuts force it to stop print magazine

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • JURIST seeking new Executive Director
    JURIST, the 501(c)(3) legal news and research non-profit headquartered at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, invites candidates to apply for the position of JURIST Executive Director. The Executive Director is responsible for managing JURIST's corporate and external operations and reports t ...
  • Supreme Court rules third party may sue employer f ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] unanimously Monday in Thompson v. North American Stainless [Cornell LII backgrounder; JURIST report] that a third party can sue his employer for retalation. Eric Thompson was fired from North American Stainless (NAS) [official web ...
  • UN, EU failing to stand up to rights abuses: HRW
    [JURIST] EU member states and the UN have failed to adequately respond [press release] to human rights abuses and violations, according to the Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] annual report [text, PDF] published Monday. The report accuses countries of adopting soft approaches to human rig ...
  • Supreme Court to examine inmates' Miranda rights
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] granted certiorari [order list, PDF] in two cases Monday and summarily reversed a Ninth Circuit decision in a California parole case. In Howes v. Fields [docket; cert. petition, PDF], the court granted certiorari to determine the ...
  • Supreme Court rules for credit card company on not ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] unanimously Monday in Chase Bank v. McCoy [Cornell LII backgrounder; JURIST report] that Chase was not required to provide a cardholder with a change-in-terms notice before raising the interest rate on his credit card. The case re ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • More on the 'Kennedys'
    By John Tierney There are Kennedy haters out there who, predictably, thought my earlier post was terrific.  Perhaps just as surely, there are people who brook no criticism of the Kennedys. I received the following comment from a reader in Vermont who took me to task for conflating Max Kennedy with " ...
  • Even Off the Ballot, Rahm Will Have Shaped Mayoral ...
    Even if he's not on the ballot, Rahm Emanuel will have played a heavy role in determining who becomes the next mayor of Chicago. Emanuel's candidacy was invalidated on Monday by a state court, which ruled that he failed to meet Chicago's residency requirement, having lived in Washington, DC for the ...
  • Why the Court's Rahm Emanuel Decision Is Worse Tha ...
    If you don't have the time or inclination to read the 25-page decision which has stunned the Chicago mayoral campaign of Rahm Emanuel, here's what it comes down to: A 2-1 majority of an Illinois Appellate Court panel on Monday interpreted some admittedly imprecise state statutes to mean that Em ...
  • Rahm Goes Nuts
    Here's a timely addition to Jim Fallows's series on unfortunate/memorable headline juxtaposition, this from a Northern Michigan news team reporting on Rahm Emanuel's getting bounced from the Chicago mayoral race and...some other stuff (h/t @danielradosh):
  • The Arizona Two-Step: A Tale of a Pair of Dusty Ol ...
    One longtime Arizona sheriff--let's call him "Sheriff A" for ease of reference--is currently under investigation by federal authorities for failing to adequately cooperate in a civil rights investigation. The Justice Department last year was forced to sue the veteran lawman to enforce its rights. Th ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Palestine Papers: Herzl Suggested Jews Resettle in ...
    I swear, the longer I watch this Israeli-Palestinian conflict the more the nutty ideas of the past impose themselves on the present.  Many Zionists don’t know or admit that Herzl had no particular romantic affinity for Palestine as the homeland of the Jews.  He thought it could just as easily be U ...
  • Links for 2010-03-21 [Digg]
    Happy Passover: Settlers, Immigrants, and Jewish Values "You shall not oppress the stranger because you know the soul of the stranger for you yourselves were immigrants in the land of Egypt (Exodus 23:9)"
  • Turkel Commission Vindicates Israeli Massacre
    Perhaps only in Israel can even a dead man rise from the grave to sing his country’s praises (well OK, it could happen in a few other places too like North Korea, Belarus and perhaps Iran).  That’s what’s happened to poor Shabtai Rosenne, former Israeli foreign ministry official, appointed along wi ...
  • Al Jazeera Blockbuster: PA Gave Away the Store, Is ...
    Al Jazeera and The Guardian are jointly publishing the summary of a treasure trove of documents revealing the extraordinary extent to which the PA was willing to sacrifice a huge chunk of the Palestinian national patrimony and agenda for the sake of peace. While Israel (and to an extent, the Bush ad ...
  • Fox News’ Beck Gunnin’ for 78 Year-Old Columbia Un ...
    Glenn Beck isn’t satisified being a popular FoxNews bloviator.  He appears to be driving some of his more deranged followers to take a potshot at a distinguished City University of New York professor, Frances Fox Piven.  Maybe he even expects a rating bonanza as a result. Prof. Fox Piven is one of ...

Ode Magazine

  • Colman McCarthy's struggle for peace
    By: PeaceCorso Colman McCarthy has been an inspiration for my own peacework from the beginning. Right after I escaped from the domestic violence situation. I encountered his distance learning course from the Center for Teaching Peace and took it with great enthusia ...
  • How to reap the harvest of peace
    By: PeaceCorso Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire assures us that "if we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow the seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present." Ms. Maguire knows whereof she sp ...
  • Cultures of compliments
    By: Anne Thomas In the culture I grew up in compliments came naturally and abundantly. If someone looked nice, we told them so. If clothes were attractive, we let people know. If someone bought a new car or house, we all sang our praises. That sort of positive, enc ...
  • 2011 Year of the rabbit: A time for pause
    By: Chintana According to eastern astrology, 2011 is the Year of the Rabbit. It is said that this will be a temperate time with unhurried pace, suitable for introspection and respite. I’m not one for fortune telling but isn’t this a nice thought? Seems like we ...
  • Learning by accident
    By: Rosalia There was a time I lived like a carefree woman who read bad news, shook her head, and went about her usual day. I felt secure in the world, and the knowledge that I controlled my own destiny. That time ended on April 13, 2002. Before then, I hadn’t ...

OpEd News

Switchboard

  • A Pipeline Runs Through It: The Kalamazoo River, f ...
    We people are a forgetful bunch. We need reminders. Out of sight; out of mind. It’s why we pay attention to birthdays and anniversaries. We sometimes need a little calendar jolt to remind us of what is important. And the half-anniversary of the Kalamazoo River Oil Spill this week sho ...
  • The California Bay-Delta and the Rime of the Ancie ...
    It’s not every day that my undergraduate study of the English romantic poets comes in handy. So when I saw this story last Friday, I had to chime in.    As Mike Doyle’s story points out, Coleridge’s poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” has been quoted liberally by all sides in water ...
  • Why don't we know how many drinking water sources ...
    How many drinking water sources have been harmed by oil or gas operations?�According to a recent report from Pennsylvania, no one knows in that state. This alarming article quotes an environmental engineer as estimating that as many as 50 homes in Bradford County, Pennsylvania�alone ar ...
  • Applause and high hopes for California's new Secre ...
    Any way you look at it, California isn’t going to solve pressing environmental challenges without agriculture being part of the solution.  I can’t think of anyone better than Karen Ross to help make that happen. Agriculture matters.  Growers in our state use about 80% of the developed ...
  • Media scan 1/24: State of the Union preview; Force ...
    Frances Beinecke spoke with the Washington Post about President Obama’s upcoming State of the Union address and the topics the President should highlight; in the piece Frances suggested that the President should challenge the public to break our dependence on oil… In her role as a memb ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • More from the Young Cons!*
    We’ve laughed at the Young Cons before, and now they give us reason to again: The only thing I’ll say is, “Isn’t it not at all revealing about conservative ideology who they choose to represent liberals being emotional?” *Yes, I know the video’s old, but mockery is forever. That’s what the Interne ...
  • Who Decides?
    There’s not a lot I can add to Pema Levy’s excellent response to William Saletan, but I did want to emphasize a couple points. First of all, Saletan does deserve credit for acknowledging pro-choice arguments about the effect of the arbitrary abortion regulations that states like Pennsylvania have ...
  • On Red State History
    Serwer is definitive: To the extent that “mass bloodshed” was necessary, it was because the Confederates refused to hew to the potential outcomes produced by democratic institutions, which is precisely what the editors at Redstate are threatening. The abolitionists would have been perfectly happy ...
  • And a Happy Birthday to Mr. Neil Diamond!
    Happy 70th, Neil. I’m surprised it’s taken me this long to come up with an excuse for posting that. Related posts:Happy Belated Birthday Happy Birthday Happy Belated Birthday to Us Related posts:Happy Belated Birthday Happy Birthday Happy Belated Birthday to Us
  • Wait! Not THAT Faustian Bargain…
    I invite you to identify the absurdity. Wait, let me help: Through a mutual contact, [former CIA operative Duane R. âDeweyâ] Clarridge declined to comment for this post. But his case is fascinating. Like a lot of ex-CIA operatives, he considers his former agency a hidebound, bureaucratic mess that ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Tracking the Air Quality at Lake Tahoe
    In order to better understand the pollutant sources that are affecting Lake’s Tahoe’s water quality, Research Professor Hampden Kuhns, began studying Lake Tahoe in 2003 when he assembled the areas first emissions inventory. The inventory included local measurements using his TRAKER road dust ...
  • Building Concepts for Clarity
    Todd Mihevc has a knack for finding the right tools for the job, but he’s no handyman for hire. For 25 years, Mihevc, an Assistant Research Hydrogeologist at DRI, has been instrumental in developing equipment that surveys, studies, and samples water systems in Nevada. His latest research concerns th ...
  • Top Cited Article in the Journal of Human Evolutio ...
    Dr. Glenn Berger is lead author in top-cited article in Journal of Human Evolution. The article "Luminescence chronology of cave sediments at the Atapuerca paleoanthropological site, Spain" was the top-cited article published in the Journal of Human Evolution for the period of 2008 to 2010.
  • DRI Researcher Published in Nature Geoscience
    The atmosphere over the Dead Sea, researchers have found, is laden with oxidized mercury. Some of the highest levels of oxidized mercury ever observed outside the polar regions exist there.
  • Taking Your Home’s Energy Temperature
    An article authored by DRI Associate Research Professor Emeritus Charles “Fred “Rogers, Ph.D., outlines the best practices for homeowners who are looking to save money on their home heating and cooling bills.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • NASA Satellite to Study Effects of Solar Energy an ...
    NASA will launch satellite technology next month that scientists say will provide a clearer understanding of how solar energy and aerosols affect Earth’s climate. Traveling at about 438 miles above the Earth over three years, the Glory satellite will collect data on the Sun’s total energy output and ...
  • Reef Dive Sites in Thailand Closed After Damage fr ...
    Authorities in Thailand are closing dozens of popular diving sites in the Andaman Sea after extremely high ocean temperatures caused widespread bleaching of coral reefs. More than half of Thailand’s 38,000 acres of coral reefs are suffering from bleaching, threatening the economy of one of the world ...
  • Green Energy’s Big Challenge: The Daunting Task o ...
    To shift the global economy from fossil fuels to renewable energy will require the construction of wind, solar, nuclear, and other installations on a vast scale, significantly altering the face of the planet. Can these new forms of energy approach the scale needed to meet the world’s energy demands? ...
  • Interview: A Fierce Advocate For the Yellowstone G ...
    When he returned from Vietnam in 1968, Doug Peacock retreated to the Yellowstone backcountry to “get out of myself” and move beyond the memories that haunted him. It was there he began what would become his life’s work: documenting the grizzly bear on film and in books Doug Peacock and advocatin ...
  • A Fierce Advocate for Grizzlies Sees Warning Signs ...
    Doug Peacock has been tireless defender of the Yellowstone grizzly for decades, but he believes the bear may now be facing its toughest threat yet. In an interview with Yale Environment 360,�Peacock talks about the insect infestation that is destroying a key food source for grizzlies and recalls som ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Explosion kills 31 at Moscow airport
    An explosion ripped through the international arrivals hall at Moscow’s busiest airport on Monday, killing 31 people and wounding about 130, officials said. The Russian president called it a terror attack. The state RIA Novosti news agency, citing law enforcement sources, said the mid-afternoon expl ...
  • The Palestine Papers - Secret papers reveal slow d ...
    The biggest leak of confidential documents in the history of the Middle East conflict has revealed that Palestinian negotiators secretly agreed to accept Israel's annexation of all but one of the settlements built illegally in occupied East Jerusalem. This unprecedented proposal was one of a string ...
  • 25 Tons of Bombs Wipe Afghan Town Off Map
    An American-led military unit pulverized an Afghan village in Kandahar’s Arghandab River Valley in October, after it became overrun with Taliban insurgents. It’s hard to understand how turning an entire village into dust fits into America’s counterinsurgency strategy — which supposedly prizes the lo ...
  • Consciousness Drives the Universe
    Outstanding video which depicts that consciousness is what drives and shapes everything. This means ultimately everything in the universe and that even matter is consciousness in the most subtlest and dense form. Be careful what you think... It might come true. This video has David Lynch, David Icke ...
  • G20 officer: ’This ain’t Canada right now’ (Video)
    One officer tells Figueiras that police need to search his backpack, but he refuses. "You haven’t opened up your bag, so take off," the officer says to the man. When the man refers to being in Canada, the officer replies: "This ain’t Canada right now."

Russia Today

  • Medvedev’s opening speech at Davos forum canceled ...
    The blast at the Moscow airport may affect the upcoming world economic forum in the Swiss town of Davos. Russia's president Dmitry Medvedev was scheduled to open the summit, but after the attack said he would delay his...
  • Russian Parliament enters final stage of New START ...
    Russia's lower house of Parliament, the State Duma, is to consider the ratification of the Russia-US New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in its third and last reading.
  • Council of Europe to examine Kosovo organ traffick ...
    The Council of Europe plans to debate the findings of an explosive report by Swiss rapporteur for human rights Dick Marty about the alleged trafficking of organs in Kosovo.
  • Moscow airport terror mirrors video game
    The aftermath of Monday's blast at Domodedovo Airport has sparked hot debate as the stuff of a popular American video game, sold worldwide. “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2” has become a shocking reality.
  • Nuclear talks yield no consensus
    The second and final day of talks on Iran's nuclear program has drawn to a close in Istanbul, ending a round of unproductive negotiations regarding the issue of Iran’s plans for uranium enrichment.

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

  • The Paracast: Clifford Clift of MUFON
    This week’s Paracast with Gene Steinberg and Chris O’Brien is a conversation with MUFON International’s Clifford Clift. Subjects range from the nuts and bolts aspects of UFOs to the possible paranormal links with ghosts, angels, demons and Sasquatch. This was a down to earth and civil interview, eve ...
  • Bizarre Beachcoming: Review of the Codex Seraphini ...
    Dr. Beachcoming, that eccentric collector of all things of an exotic historical nature, reviews The Codex Seraphinianus,  a book written by Luigi Serafini that is purportedly about an alien world complete with language, customs, architecture, flora and fauna. Luigi Serafini, Codex Seraphinianus (num ...
  • Quantum DNA
    It’s been written that photosynthesis might be a quantum process. Now a paper appears that claims DNA itself is a quantum process: A Nobel Prize winning biologist has ignited controversy after publishing details of an experiment in which a fragment of DNA appeared to ‘teleport’ or imprint itself be ...
  • The Paracast: Jerome Clark
    This week’s Paracast with Gene Steinberg and co-host Chris O’Brien features Jerome Clark, author of âThe UFO Encyclopediaâ and âHidden Realms, Lost Civilizations, and Beings from Other Worlds.” After listening to this interview, I was kind of surprised by a researcher in present day ufology who sti ...
  • Tau Zero and Breakthrough Spaceship Propulsion
    In the mainstream, propulsion science does not recognize UFO propulsion technology per se, (Bob Bigelow not withstanding), but there are several theories being bandied about and while interstellar travel just might occur before we become a Kardashev Level One Civilization in around two hundred years ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • What is Art Pope's agenda for North Carolina?
    In North Carolina, there's little argument: The most important backer of conservative causes and politicians is Raleigh retail magnate Art Pope. As a Facing South series looking at Pope's influence documented, Pope's family foundation supplies about 90 percent of the income for policy groups ...
  • Mississippi Workers' Compensation Commission rulin ...
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South The Mississippi Workers' Compensation Commission and its rulings will be the subject of a months-long review by the Joint Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review, PEER Director Max Arinder said recently. "We have had some complaints filed with the ...
  • VOICES: EPA veto of mountaintop removal mine spark ...
    By Matt Wasson, Appalachian Voices In the wake of EPA's veto last week of the largest mountaintop removal mine permit ever proposed in West Virginia, the grandstanding of West Virginia politicians and "sky is falling" rhetoric from the coal industry was not surprising. Every effort to protect st ...
  • Will growing Chinese investment revive the U.S. la ...
    By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest Much of the discussion of Hu Jintao's visit to the United States is focused on China's treatment of its dissidents and its workers, but another issue is becoming increasingly important: the treatment of U.S. workers by the Chinese companies that are rapidly e ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Citizens United by the numbers
    Date on which the U.S. Supreme Court issued the landmark Citizens United decision by a 5-4 vote, ending the prohibition on corporate spending in elections and allowing certain anonymous contributions: 1/21/2010 Amount of spending by outside groups in the 2010 U.S. mid-term elections: $294.2 milli ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Canadian Encyclopedia

  • Canadian Pacific Railway
    Commencement of a transcontinental railway within 2 years and completion within 10 years were conditions of British Columbia's entry into Confederation in 1871 (seeRAILWAY HISTORY). Competition for the lucrative contract for the
  • Group of Seven
    The Group of Seven was founded in 1920 as an organization of self-proclaimed modern artists. The original members - Franklin CARMICHAEL , Lawren HARRIS , A.Y. JACKSON , Franz JOHNSTON , Arthur LISMER , J.E.H.
  • War of 1812
    The war of 1812 was a military conflict between the United States and Great Britain. As a colony of Great Britain, Canada was swept up in the War of 1812 and was invaded a number of times by the Americans. The process of calling
  • Winnipeg General Strike
    The Winnipeg General Strike, 15 May-25 June 1919, was Canada's best-known general strike. Massive unemployment and inflation, the success of the Russian Revolution (1917), a wave of strikes across Canada and rising
  • Hydroelectricity
    Hydroelectricity is obtained from the ENERGY contained in falling water; it is a renewable, comparatively nonpolluting energy source and Canada's largest source of ELECTRIC-POWER GENERATION . In N America in the 1850s the

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • What can I reuse or recycle to make small seed env ...
    I asked this question on Twitter yesterday forgetting I had a blog dedicated to such things ;) Basically, I want to make some small envelopes/pouches for sharing spare seeds at a seed swap. I imagine I’ll make them using scrap paper (old envelopes seem a logical place to start but I’m open to other ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle out of date chocolate?
    We’ve had an email from Aimee: Do you know if there is any use for out of date chocolate? I guess it depends quite how out of date it is. Chocolate tends to have a “best before” date (rather than a “use by”) and it is often fine to eat for a good while after [...]
  • How can I get into the habit of using reuseable ba ...
    Following in the vein of “how can I get into the habit of taking packed lunches?”, I thought it would be useful to gather together your thoughts and tips on getting into the habit of using reusable shopping bags. Because cutting down on plastic carriers is going save the world you know. ;) So what [ ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle completely dry fudge?
    Recycle This regular Anna left a question on the Suggestion page back in APRIL but I somehow missed it until now – sorry Anna! Her question was: How could I use completely dry fudge? I have two big boxes of completely dry Irish fudge that Iâd like to find a use for. The fudge isnât [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle plastic chopping boards ...
    We’ve had an email from Miranda: Can I recycle an old plastic chopping board? It’s stained and scarred and we don’t want to use it any more. As far as I can tell, most plastic chopping boards are made from HDPE (resin code 2), which can be recycled and is quite widely collected – but [...]

Mondoweiss

  • Times’ Kershner uses biased Turkel history t ...
    There have been many critical examinations of New York Times articles on this website, and I’ve had my share of such posts to the point where it has gotten tiresome. But there is literally an endless supply of material. A particularly irksome error appears in today’s paper, in an article by Isabel ...
  • When Livni spoke of ethnic transfer, Abu Alaa said ...
    The breaking news is that in negotiations in 2007-2009, the Israelis sought ethnic population swaps: Jewish settlements in the West Bank would become part of Israel, while Palestinian villages in Israel would become part of the new Palestinian state. And the same records of these talks (released by ...
  • Palestine Papers: Obama rejects Bush commitment to ...
    Ali Abunimah writes on the Al Jazeera English website on how the Obama administration abandoned longstanding US policy to base the two-state solution on the 1967 border between Israel and the occupied territories, and the dangerous consequences of this decision: On 23 September 2009, Obama told the ...
  • Palestine Papers: Obama didn’t abandon all B ...
    Although the Palestine Papers are full of references from the Obama adminstration that "President Obama does not accept prior decisions by Bush" (in the words of George Mitchell), there are a few things that the current White House agrees with the last administration on. Seumas Milne and Ian Black r ...
  • Latest Palestine Papers: Plans to ‘transfer& ...
    @import "http://embed.tweetizen.com/embed.css"; Below are the Al Jazeera English and Guardian twitter feeds giving updates on the latest Palestine Papers. Al Jazeera has just released the latest papers. Some highlights from Al Jazeera English: Israel's plans to force Palestinian ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • ‘Climategate’: time to move on
    A UK parliamentary report on the so-called ‘Climategate’ email theft has expressed “some reservations” about two independent inquiries into the incident. However, the House of Commons science select committee says it is now time to implement the inquiries’ recommendations and move on. A number of ...
  • Corruption in global disease fund
    The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria says it is confident that it will not lose money from donors after this weekend's media reports of corruption eating up millions of dollars of its grants. The reports refer to “well-known incidents”, contain “no new revelations”, and have alrea ...
  • Agriculture needs 'greenest' revolution to cope wi ...
    Declining food prices are a thing of the past, and the world must reform its agricultural system to prepare for increasingly volatile prices, the UK government's Foresight Programme said today. “There’s a very large risk of quite substantial increase of food prices over the next 30 or 40 years,” ...
  • CIRM taps biotech exec for number two slot
    The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has chosen Ellen Feigal, a biotechnology executive and drug development expert, as its second-in-command. CIRM president Alan Trounson said the agency is to looking to Feigal to help it make good on its promise to translate basic science into ...
  • Collins defends decision to dismantle NIH center
    Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), picked up the telephone and called reporters today, anxious to go public with his enthusiasm for an incipient translational medicine centre at NIH --- and with his defense of the attendant dismantling of the National Center ...

new geography

  • Why Affordable Housing Matters
    Economists, planners and the media often focus on the extremes of real estate � the high-end properties or the foreclosed deserts, particularly in the suburban fringe. Yet to a large extent, they ignore what is arguably the most critical issue: affordability. This problem is the focus of an importa ...
  • Personal Income in the 2000s: Top and Bottom Ten M ...
    The first decade of the new millennium was particularly hard on the US economy. First, there was the recession that followed the attacks of 9/11. That was followed by the housing bust and the resulting Great Financial Crisis, which was the most severe economic decline since the Great Depression. Pe ...
  • Middle America: Problems and Prospects
    Undoubtedly, America is a middle class nation. But are there problems in the middle? It would certainly seem so: reduced employment, income and wealth (more worryingly, reduced employment, income- and wealth-building opportunities); reduced prospects for generational advancement (kids are supposed ...
  • Irvine, by Design
    Different is not necessarily better or worse. I took notice of this upon moving from the Echo Park district of Los Angeles to Irvine. Some acquaintances and casual observers viewed it as a shift from ground zero of hipster chic to the center of conformity. Neither comes close to capturing the trut ...
  • The Next Urban Challenge — And Opportunity
    In the next two years, America�s large cities will face the greatest existential crisis in a generation. Municipal bonds are in the tank, having just suffered the worst quarterly performance in more than 16 years, a sign of flagging interest in urban debt. Things may get worse. The website Business ...

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Cryptogon

  • Moscow Airport Bomb Kills 31, Injures More Than 13 ...
    In other news: Israel Concerned Russia Will Recognize Palestinian State, and then, Dmitry Medvedev Restates Russian Support for Palestinian State. *boom* Via: Los Angeles Times: An apparent terrorist bombing Monday at a crowded arrivals terminal at an airport near Moscow left 31 people dead and more ...
  • Large Leak of Documents ‘Reveal Slow Death o ...
    I have no idea what to make of this. It’s massive and I haven’t looked and any of the documents yet. Here it is, but, as always, with a grain of salt… or CAST LEAD as the case may be. Via: Guardian: The biggest leak of confidential documents in the history of the Middle East [...]
  • Peter Dale Scott: The Doomsday Project, Deep Event ...
    Via: Asia Pacific Journal: In recent years I have become more and more concerned with the interactions between three important and alarming trends in recent American history. The first is America’s increasing militarization, and above all its inclination, even obsession, to involve itself in needles ...
  • First UAV Flight in Support of Domestic Law Enforc ...
    Via: Washington Post: AUSTIN – The suspect’s house, just west of this city, sat on a hilltop at the end of a steep, exposed driveway. Agents with the Texas Department of Public Safety believed the man inside had a large stash of drugs and a cache of weapons, including high-caliber rifles. As dawn br ...
  • China Bank Moves to Buy U.S. Branches
    Via: Wall Street Journal: China’s biggest bank signed an agreement that would make it the first Beijing-controlled financial institution to acquire retail bank branches in the U.S., though regulators could still block the deal. Under the deal, Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd., by some meas ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Paper Money Madness: Inflation-Fueled Economic Gro ...
    If the U.S. economy "grows" by 4 percent in 2011, but by the end of the year we are paying $3.00 for a loaf of bread, $4.00 for a gallon of milk and $5.00 for a gallon of gasoline are the American people going to be better off economically or worse off?  The answer is [...]
  • Two Americas: 12 Facts That Show That Those Who Ar ...
    Most Americans have a deep aversion to the phrase "redistribution of wealth", and rightly so.  On a fundamental level, it is just not right to take the money that one man has worked so hard to earn and "redistribute" it to someone else.  In the political realm, the phrase "a redistr ...
  • Economy News Nightmare: 20 Things That You Should ...
    Today America is very, very frustrated.  In fact, we probably have not seen this level of anger in the country since World War 2 ended.  So why are so many Americans so frustrated and so angry right now?  Well, for most Americans it comes down to the economy.  Very few things are mo ...
  • 14 Eye Opening Statistics Which Reveal Just How Dr ...
    Most Americans have become so accustomed to the "new normal" of continual economic decline that they don't even remember how good things were just a few short years ago.  Back in 2007, unemployment was very low, good jobs were much easier to get, far fewer Americans were living in p ...
  • Huge Numbers Of Dead Animals, Dead Birds And Dead ...
    Just what in the world is going on out there? Large groups of animals are keeling over dead, thousands of birds are falling out of the sky dead and millions of dead fish are washing ashore all over the globe.  Something is happening.  Do any of you know what is causing all this, be ...

Desertification

  • Gardening in Space With HydroTropi (Science Daily)
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110119095759.htm ScienceDaily (Jan. 19, 2011) â Plants are fundamental to life on Earth, converting light and carbon dioxide into food and oxygen. Plant growth may be an important part of human survival in exploring space, as well. … Continue re ...
  • Assumption that plants will move uphill in respons ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110120142400.htm Plants Moved Downhill, Not Up, in Warming World ScienceDaily (Jan. 21, 2011) â In a paper published January 20 in the journal Science, a University of California, Davis, researcher and his co-authors challenge a widely held … Co ...
  • UNCCD News Alert Nº 02/02/2011
    Read at : Land Degradation Announcement List UNCCD News Alert Nº 02/02/2011 10 â 21 January 2011 COP 9 follow-up CRIC 9: The report on the Update on the progress made on the implementation of paragraphs 1 to 3 … Continue reading →
  • Friends of Container Gardening Project in Malawi ( ...
    Read on Facebook: Sandie Roach posted in “ Friends of Container Gardening Project in Malawi“.   CONTAINER GARDENING PROJECT IN MALAWI Container Gardening project founder and Coordinator, Patrick Harry at the project site, 2010, Piyasani village, Lilongwe, Malawi. BACKGROUND Container … Continue read ...
  • New solar energy desalination process (Green Proph ...
    Read at : http://www.greenprophet.com/2011/01/solar-desalination/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+greenprophet+%28Green+Prophet%29 Solar Desalination Tech Tested By Emiratis Maurice Picow Hopefully, the UAEâs new solar energy desalination process will help create more gree ...

The Paper Trail

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

backofthebook.ca

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

Worldnews

  • Gadkari shown how China manages its party cad ...
    Guangzhou: Nitin Gadkari, the first Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president to visit China, evinced keen interest on Tuesday in how the all-powerful Communist Party of China (CPC) strengthened management of its party cadres. The CPC has set up 24 party member-management centres in different part ...
  • Onions at Rs.5-20 a kilo
    New Delhi: Onion prices crashed to Rs 5-20 a kg in wholesale markets of the national capital today on the back of improved supply, but retail prices of the vegetable remain high at Rs 40 per kg. Retail prices of onions have been hovering at the same level for the past four to five days in New D ...
  • Onion prices crash in wholesale markets of De ...
    New Delhi, Jan 25 (PTI) Tuesday, January 25, 2011 --> Onion prices crashed to Rs 5-20 a kg in wholesale markets of the national capital today on the back of improved supply, but retail prices of the vegetable remain high at Rs 40 per kg. Retail prices of onions have been hovering at the same le ...
  • Kindergarten bill passed in House on 3rd read ...
    MANILA, Philippines Children will soon be required to take one year in kindergarten education as pre-requisite to enter Grade I under a bill that was passed on third and final reading at the...
  • Top 10 ways to control high blood pressure wi ...
    Looking for a natural way to help control high blood pressure? Then a great place to start is by modifying your diet. Fruits and vegetables play a major role in preventing certain chronic diseases. They provide essential nutrients, dietary fiber and are low in calories. Studies have proven that ...

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Common Dreams

  • '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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Speaking to President Obama on Energy
    Andrew Revkin, who runs New York Times Dot Earth and formerly served as the lead NYT environment/energy reporter, has a new post, “America’s Energy Challenge, and Opportunity,” asking what people would say to President Obama abou
  • The Regulatory-Ethanol Complex
    The US Environmental Protection Agency has a problem, and that problem is ethanol.
  • Rethinking Electricity Production: The Disruptive ...
    The Smart Grid offers ample opportunities to introduce disruptive technologies and disruptive thinking into the electricity supply chain.� Indeed, disruptive technologies and services that enable electricity production at the point of consumption or close to the point of consumption are prime exampl ...
  • Joule is cool, but not alone in quest for sunlight ...
    Joule Unlimited has been on my radar for a little over a year now, but it has become the topic of much�conversation � at least in Canada � after Globe and Mail columnist <
  • Smart Energy Investment and the Smart Grid
    Next Tuesday in his State of the Union address, President Obama will call for increased government investment in infrastructure, education and research. But before the U.S. Treasury starts writing checks, there is much to be learned from the experience of the last two years. Federal dollars for en ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

  • Obama Embraces Military Commissions Injustice
    by Stephen Lendman The 2006 Military Commissions Act authorized torture and sweeping unconstitutional powers to detain, interrogate, and prosecute alleged suspects and collaborators (including US citizens), hold them (without evidence) indefinitely in military prisons, and deny them habeas and othe ...
  • Why Illinois governor should sign death penalty ab ...
    Mary Shaw On January 11, the Illinois state legislature passed a bill abolishing the death penalty in that state. The bill was then sent to Governor Pat Quinn's desk. Whether or not he will sign it into law, however, is still uncertain. According to the Chicago Tribune, "Quinn said he supports 'ca ...
  • Gaza Flotilla Massacre: Whitewash Absolves Israel
    by Stephen Lendman Last May 31, Israeli commandos attacked and murdered nine or more activists, injuring dozens in international waters on board the Mavi Marmara mother ship, one of five bringing humanitarian aid to besieged Gazans. An earlier article explained, accessed through the following li ...
  • Temples of the Illumined Ones: The Rockefeller Bui ...
    William Ramsey In the 20th century, the vast wealth of the Rockefeller family was put to use building the monolithic Rockefeller Center, the United Nations and the World Trade Center in New York City. Each building complex is suffused with occult symbolism and meaning. When one analyzes the art ...
  • "We need to stop this culture before it kills the ...
    Mickey Z. As 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 released across the g ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • Bush White House Broke The Law!
    I’m mad as hell and I want something done! I want something done! I want… wait, someone’s at the door… IT’S JUDAS PREIST! Bush White House Broke Elections Law, Report Says | The New York Times The Bush White House, particularly before the 2006 midterm elections, routinely violated a federal law that ...
  • State Of The Union
    The battle to define Obama’s State of the Union address | Politico President Barack Obama will toe a fine fiscal line in his State of the Union address Tuesday, proposing new infrastructure and education spending to spur job growth â along with enough spending cuts and tax reform measures to blunt c ...
  • More Fracking News
    Have Public Servants Charged with Protecting Drinking Water for 15 Million People Sold Out to the Gas Drilling Industry? | Alternet Environmentalists are squaring off against the gas drilling industry, but the playing field does not appear to be level. Over the past decade, 34 states have succumbed ...
  • China really is an Evil Empire.
    WWH- To hell with the “Love Fest” for China last week. To hell with our President and his toasting to a Communist thug. To hell with the main stream media, and their layering the icing on a cake full of weevils. To hell with the banter of bankers and experts-nothing but a scripted spin, lies, [...]
  • Complaint Filed For Bradley Manning
    Defense Attorney Files Complaint Alleging Mistreatment of Bradley Manning | Wired The attorney for suspected WikiLeaks source Pfc. Bradley Manning filed a formal complaint this week over Manning’s treatment at the Marine Corps brig where he is being detained. Attorney David E. Coombs filed the compl ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

  • Chris Christie asked to give the State of the Unio ...
    New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was offered the opportunity to deliver the Republican response to the State of the Union address, but he turned it down, according to ... a friend of Chris Christie. Not that I don't believe him, but it certainly feeds into the lovingly self-cultivated Christie myth ...
  • Senate rules reform won't happen
    A reasonable and popular measure with the support of a majority of senators has quietly died for no good reason, and the Senate's very first official legislative "day" of the new Congress has not even finished yet. (Did you know that the Senate's been in the middle of this one legislative day sin ...
  • Conservative Supreme Court justices no longer both ...
    So, Supreme Court Clarence Thomas neglected to report his wife Ginni's income from a right-wing think tank. Or maybe "neglected" is the wrong word, because that sounds sort of benign or accidental. It's more like he refused to do so, for years. Thomas' wife is a longtime conservative activist, an ...
  • The real investment agenda Obama should puruse
    This post originally appeared on Robert Reich's blog.
  • Jared Loughner pleads not guilty in deadly Arizona ...
    Wearing his characteristicly creepy grin, the man accused of carrying out the mass shooting in Tucson pleaded not guilty Monday to charges he tried to kill Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and two of her aides.

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • Don’t abandonCanada’s stake
    Is Canada prepared to let our nuclear industry wither away, along with the $6.6 billion and 30,000 jobs it generates directly for the economy? Duncan Hawthorne, the CEO of Bruce Power, ...
  • Fast action needed on TTC strike ban
    Queen’s Park needs to stay firmly on track in an effort to remove TTC workers’ right to strike.
  • Haiti is stuck in limbo
    Instead of rebuilding, Haitians have been squabbling about a shoddy election and two exiled, polarizing figures from the past.
  • Haiti is stuckin limbo
    Instead of rebuilding, Haitians have been squabbling about a shoddy election and two exiled, polarizing figures from the past.
  • A tradition of giving
    Rising to the challenge of a historic fundraising target, Torontonians open their wallets and give a record amount to the United Way.

Energy Collective

  • Speaking to President Obama on Energy
    Andrew Revkin, who runs New York Times Dot Earth and formerly served as the lead NYT environment/energy reporter, has a new post, “America’s Energy Challenge, and Opportunity,” asking what people would say to President Obama abou
  • The Regulatory-Ethanol Complex
    The US Environmental Protection Agency has a problem, and that problem is ethanol.
  • Rethinking Electricity Production: The Disruptive ...
    The Smart Grid offers ample opportunities to introduce disruptive technologies and disruptive thinking into the electricity supply chain.� Indeed, disruptive technologies and services that enable electricity production at the point of consumption or close to the point of consumption are prime exampl ...
  • Joule is cool, but not alone in quest for sunlight ...
    Joule Unlimited has been on my radar for a little over a year now, but it has become the topic of much�conversation � at least in Canada � after Globe and Mail columnist <
  • Smart Energy Investment and the Smart Grid
    Next Tuesday in his State of the Union address, President Obama will call for increased government investment in infrastructure, education and research. But before the U.S. Treasury starts writing checks, there is much to be learned from the experience of the last two years. Federal dollars for en ...

EU Times

  • China’s new Stealth Fighter may use US Technology
    Chinese officials recently unveiled a new, high-tech stealth fighter that could pose a significant threat to American air superiority — and some of its technology, it turns out, may well have come from the U.S. itself. Balkan military officials and other experts have told The Associated Press that i ...
  • Hawaii official now swears: No Obama birth certifi ...
    Signs affidavit declaring long-form, hospital-generated document absent. Former Hawaii elections clerk Tim Adams has now signed an affidavit swearing he was told by his supervisors in Hawaii that no long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate existed for Barack Obama Jr. in Hawaii and that neith ...
  • Russians want Lenin removed from Red Square
    Two-thirds of Russians want Vladimir Lenin to be removed from his Red Square mausoleum in central Moscow, a new poll has shown. The poll, organised by Vladimir Putin’s ruling United Russia party, comes after a senior figure in the party sparked a lively debate on the issue, saying the time had come ...
  • Thousands To Protest Against Mubarak in Egypt
    Thousands of Egyptians are expected to protest today against the repressive 30-year rule of President Hosni Mubarak. If there are mass demonstrations, it will be the biggest test so far of the theory that this month’s Tunisian uprising could result in a domino effect across the region. Egypt’s bigge ...
  • U.S. Supreme Court Issues Landmark Decision: Const ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark decision that serves to allow judges to void the Constitution in their courtrooms. The decision was issued on January 18, 2011, and the Court did not even explain the decision (Docket No. 10-632, 10-633, and 10-690). One word decisions: denied. Presented with ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Print on the go with your HTML5 enabled phone and ...
    Any phone that supports HTML5 can now use Google Cloud Print and a printer to print out documents and Gmail while on the go. Phones HTML5 enabled should be able to use the application, which hooks up to your Windows PC printer (support for Mac and Linux are coming soon). Once installed, simply navi ...
  • Suicide bomber or false flag? moscow airport attac ...
    By Alexei Anishchuk MOSCOW  |  Mon Jan 24, 2011 6:40pm EST (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed at least 35 people at  Russia 's busiest airport on Monday, state TV said, in an attack on the capital that bore the hallmarks of militants fighting for an Islamist state in the North Caucasus region. Pre ...
  • Pakistan, Russia agree to bury the hatchet
    By Kamran Yousaf Moscow suspects that extremists in Pakistani sanctuaries have links with militants from the North Caucasus and other Muslim Russian regions. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Russia, the cold-war rivals, agreed to bury the hatchet and take ‘pragmatic steps’ towards promoting partnership on k ...
  • Hezballah will try to rule Lebanon
    Image via Wikipedia BBC: Supporters of Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri have taken to the streets in protest at efforts by Hezbollah to form the next government. Protesters, who accuse the Shia Islamist movement of staging a coup, are blocking roads and burning tyres in several towns ...
  • SEC To Have 25 Representative In The Super Bowl
    I have been on a big West Wing kick since discovering the show for the first time a month ago, so let me begin with a President Bartlet quote (or a paraphrasing of one - I can’t find the exact wording.)  “My father always said, when deciding which football team to bet on, pick the team with more No ...

Groklaw

  • Microsoft Files Complaint to Stop TiVo From Import ...
    Microsoft Corp., the world's biggest software maker, filed a U.S. trade complaint seeking to prevent TiVo Inc. from importing television set-top boxes.... "We remain open to resolving this situation through an intellectual property licensing agreement, and we look forward to continued negotiations w ...
  • Kodak Loses Ruling in ITC Case Against Apple, RIM
    Eastman Kodak Co., the 130-year-old camera company, lost a U.S. International Trade Commission ruling that may hamper its effort to collect patent royalties from Apple Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd. - Susan Decker, BusinessWeek
  • The price of Scalia's political stardom
    Some judicial commentary and appearances raise serious ethical questions. Canon 4 of the judicial Code of Conduct states that a federal judge should not take part in any activities that "reflect adversely on the judge's impartiality." This canon specifically warns that "a judge should not personally ...
  • Scalia meets with tea party House members
    University of Texas law professor Lucas A. Powe, a historian of the Warren Court, said Scalia's appearance makes the court look partisan. "He is taking political partisanship to levels not seen in over half a century," Powe said. - LA Times
  • Alan Kay shares a powerful idea about ideas
    With all the intensity and brilliance for which he is known, Alan Kay envisions better techniques for teaching kids by using computers to illustrate experience in ways -- mathematically and scientifically -- that only computers can. - TED

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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

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Reporting from Jerusalem, July 1995
    With help from my dedicated Bryn Mawr College extern Danielle Ford, I have now completed the digitization of a series of five reports I wrote for Al-Hayat in July 1995 on the situation of the Palestinians of Jerusalem. (I could say "East Jerusalem", which is of course occupied territory. But actual ...
  • Anne Applebaum and the 'Delugist' narrative on Tun ...
    There is a powerful constellation of forces in the Middle East that wants to see Tunisia's current popular uprising fail. This constellation includes: (1) All the other U.S.-supported autocrats in the Arab world, now terrified that Pres. Ben Ali's hasty departure from the country his family has loot ...
  • Open thread, MIC, Tunisia, etc
    I am in North Carolina for much of the weekend, presenting at this conference on the military-industrial complex. Amazing yesterday, driving down here, to hear so many great news reports on the car radio about the unraveling of one small corner of the complex, in Tunisia. There may yet be bloody a ...
  • Tunis: Curtains for Ben Ali?
    Just looking at this coverage from Al-Jaz of the day's massive and nonviolent protests in the Tunisian capital, Tunis. As Trotsky so elegantly described in his "History of the Russian Revolution", when the Cossacks start fraternizing with the protesters this signals the imminent end of the regime. ...
  • Lebanon, what next?
    Anthony Shadid had a piece on Lebanon in the NYT today, with this lede: With Hezbollah’s toppling of the Lebanese government, the militant Shiite Muslim movement entered what may prove to be one of the most dangerous chapters in a 30-year history that has made it reviled in the West and popular in ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Les victoires sont pour les peuples (partie 2 de 2 ...
    Entrevue avec une militante féministe haïtienne "Les victoires sont pour les peuples, et nous gagnerons la bataille." - Rea Dol Rea Dol est une militante féministe haïtienne qui habite à Port au Prince. Depuis le séisme en Haïti en 2010, elle ...
  • Les victoires sont pour les peuples (partie 1 de 2 ...
    Entrevue avec une militante féministe haïtienne "Les victoires sont pour les peuples, et nous gagnerons la bataille." - Rea Dol Rea Dol est une militante féministe haïtienne qui habite à Port au Prince. Depuis le séisme en Haïti en 2010, elle ...
  • Vancouver's Tibetan Community Demanding an End to ...
    Protesters Tell Investors to Stay Out of Tibet Today a colourful group of 40 to 50 Tibet protestors gathered outside the Convention Centre which was hosting the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference to demand an end to the involvement of th ...
  • Beyond Bébé Doc: Haitian human rights lawyer chall ...
    [UPDATE BELOW] When Bébé Doc Duvalier returned to Haiti last week, all eyes turned to him, and to how the Haitian government would react. And for good reason - a dictator accused of robbing his country of millions of dollars and overseeing ...
  • The IDF is not welcome here
    The local chapter of Israel on Campus brought a soldier from the Israel 'Defense' Force (IDF) to the University of Western Ontario.� Our campus was one of many stops on the "Our Soldiers Speak" tour.� Sergeant Benjamin Anthony has b ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Where is China headed?
    China's high speed train system David Seaton's News Link I heard a talk over a year ago at a meeting of the Madrid Fulbright association: the speaker was professor Fisac, the head of Chinese studies at Madrid University.� She said that in the course of conversation with an official of the Chinese C ...
  • Speaking of China
    David Seaton's News LinksI am in awe of the Chinese and have been since I was a child. I think Napoleon's famous phrase, "Let China sleep for when she awakes, she will shake the world" is an understatement. The only mystery was their decadence. So finally, my intuition that China is behind Wikileaks ...
  • Wikileaks (my latest theory)
    David Seaton's News LinksAfter my waltzing around ever so long with trying to figure out who's behind Wikileaks, the penny finally dropped. It is so glaringly obvious to me now, that I'm surprised it never occurred to me before. The good news is that it isn't Israel.(Hillary) Clinton likened online ...
  • Wikileaks or the loneliness of Private Manning
    For your eyes only �David Seaton's News LinksThe diplomatic corps of any sovereign country is an instrument of the state.� It does what the head of state and his/her government decide that it should do. Even if there were a total regime change in the USA, one of any political color you lik ...
  • Wikileaks: Getting serious for a moment
    David Seaton's News LinksFor the time being the USA is the major pillar of stability of some sort that the world has. Like it or not, that is a fact. Anything that affects that stability causes extremely unpredictable outcomes, blowback and damage everywhere. I am certainly not "pro status quo", but ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

  • New York State: 85 chemicals to avoid
    January 24th, 2011 By Olga Naidenko, EWG Senior Scientist When someone with $8 billion a year in purchasing power tells the world what they don’t want, marketers and manufacturers pay attention. That’s what’s happened... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web ...
  • EPA Unveils Plan to Help Identify ‘Brockovich’ Che ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Washington, D.C. – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) promised to help local water utilities address public concerns over the possible presence of hexavalent chromium (chromium-6) in... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
  • EPA to Bar Fluoride-Based Pesticide
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, 202-667-6982 leeann@ewg.org; Beyond Pesticides: Jay Feldman, 202-543-5450 Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed to grant three environmental groups’ petition to end the use... [[ This is a content summary onl ...
  • U.S. Catches Up with Science On Fluoride in Drinki ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org Washington, D.C. – Since 2005, Environmental Working Group (EWG) has been pushing the federal government and municipal water utilities to reduce the levels of fluoride in drinking... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • EPA Should Require Clear Labels and Warnings for A ...
    January 05th, 2011 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved a partial waiver last year to allow the sale of gasoline containing 15 percent ethanol (E15) in flexible-fuel or Model Year 2007 and newer vehicles. Most gasoline... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Mass Death of Birds and Fish: Is There a Cover Up?
    Puzzled by the mass deaths of birds and fish in Alabama? It's also happening elsewhere, across the Eastern and Southern U.S. and around the world -- Gizmodo has a handy map of all the U.S. events. The Activist Post offers some theories. Before you read them, however, bear in mind what Yahoo Ne ...
  • Cancer Sucks -- One Final Adoption
    Diane Sadovnikov may have been the best mom in the world, at least according to her two daughters. And in addition to caring for them, as director of the Sense Resource Center, Diane facilitated adoptions for more than 300 Ukrainian orphans. Co-workers said she had a good eye for finding excellent ...
  • Happy Wake Up
    Happy the puppy makes the cutest noises ever when waking up.
  • Want to Boost Your Metabolism? Try These 3 Things ...
    Yahoo Shine suggests eight ways to boost your metabolism and keep unwanted pounds from your waistline. Here are a few of them: Do Intervals�Periodic fast-paced intervals raise your metabolic rate higher than a steady cardio workout can. Drink Green Tea�A study found that people who drank three to ...
  • Pepsi's Answer to 'Eat Natural': Snackify Beverag ...
    Pepsi has recently announced two changes to its products. First, half its Frito-Lay chips will now be made with "all natural" ingredients (bear in mind that "natural" has no regulatory meaning -- companies largely define for themselves what the word means). Second, Pepsi announced a new children's ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Harper's five years: uninspiring but stable
    This past Sunday, Stephen Harper marked the fifth anniversary of his election as Canada's prime minister. Next month he will surpass Lester Pearson's tenure, becoming the 11th-longest-serving prime minister of the 21 men and one woman who have held the post since Confederation. But beyond lo ...
  • Financial regulators held accountable
    In a turnaround that few of Vincent Lacroix's victims expected they'd ever see, last week all 9,200 of them learned they can expect to recover nearly all the money they lost when the fraud-riddled Norbourg empire crashed in 2005.
  • Financial regulators held accountable
    An agreement in principle with the institutions targeted in the investors' class-action lawsuit -and they include the Quebec securities regulator and two prominent accounting firms -means investors will see $55 million, money they thought was lost.
  • Editorial: Traffic-ticket quotas aren't all bad
    Officers in the traffic squad working alone in cars are expected to write up at least 16 tickets per shift while motorcycle cops are assigned to nab a minimum of 18 violators. Those not specifically on traffic duty are assigned to issue between two and four tickets a day. As a result of the ...
  • Traffic-ticket quotas aren't all bad
    Officers in the traffic squad working alone in cars are expected to write up at least 16 tickets per shift while motorcycle cops are assigned to nab a minimum of 18 violators. Those not specifically on traffic duty are assigned to issue between two and four tickets a day. As a result of the ...

Food World Order

  • usda admits involvement in south dakota mass bird ...
    from allgov: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has assumed responsibility for the deaths of more than 300 birds in Yankton, South Dakota. But the USDA insists it had nothing to do with other mass die-offs of birds recently in Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama and Kentucky. The South Dakota kil ...
  • city of houston shuts down two radioactive water w ...
    from khou: A radioactive water well that is controlled by the City of Houston, and that serves residents of Jersey Village, is no longer being used, according to the communications director for Houston Mayor Annise Parker. On Monday, a KHOU-TV investigation revealed Jersey Village water well #3 was ...
  • 1/20 binge & purge: bailout pizza & gm eggplant
    domino's gets $12m bailout as experts warn of food riots* africa's growing consumer class lures multinationals* gm eggplant trials suspended in philippines* think composting stinks? here's a fresher idea* grassroots 'truth-in-labeling" campaign* video: the more americans go on food st ...
  • usda cracks down on honey laundering
    from allgov: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is continuing its pursuit of illegal, and sometimes dangerous, imports of foreign honey into the United States. After the government in 2002 imposed a tariff on honey imported from China, the world’s largest producer of the product, Chinese busi ...
  • maryland orchard to pasteurize cider after e. coli ...
    from barfblog: In October, 1996, 16-month-old Anna Gimmestad of Denver drank Smoothie juice manufactured by Odwalla Inc. of Half Moon Bay, Calif. She died several weeks later; 64 others became ill in several western U.S. states and British Columbia after drinking the same juices, which contained un ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Amazing Speech Against Terrorism
  • The Dregs of the Cesspit Target Loving Mother
    A wonderful lady called Cheryl Stannard was charged with child abduction last night by the disgraceful and pathetic Portsmouth police in Hampshire, England.   It was the latest stage in a gross persecution of this woman by the British establishment. I can’t even talk about the other stages because ...
  • URGENT: Loving Mother Arrested By Portsmouth Polic ...
    Her name is Cheryl Stannard and she is being persecuted - she is now in a cell at Portsmouth Central Police Station while they decide what to do with her after she was arrested this afternoon.   This is the number if you wish to call the station and ask about her welfare: 0845 045 45 45   This [...]
  • COTO Report City of Angels an Interview with Jorda ...
    COTO Report is proud to present to you an interview with legendary occult symbolism specialist Jordan Maxwell by Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-rPMOxJelc
  • In an outrageous and all too predictable decision, ...
    In an appalling yet sadly not unexpected decision, Keir Starmer the Director for Public Prosecutions, announced yesterday that no one would face charges over the death of Ian Tomlinson. Tomlinson, a newspaper vendor, was on his way home on 1st April last year, when he fell foul of what can only be c ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Paper Money Madness: Inflation-Fueled Economic Gro ...
    If the U.S. economy "grows" by 4 percent in 2011, but by the end of the year we are paying $3.00 for a loaf of bread, $4.00 for a gallon of milk and $5.00 for a gallon of gasoline are the American people going to be better off economically or worse off?  The answer is [...]
  • Two Americas: 12 Facts That Show That Those Who Ar ...
    Most Americans have a deep aversion to the phrase "redistribution of wealth", and rightly so.  On a fundamental level, it is just not right to take the money that one man has worked so hard to earn and "redistribute" it to someone else.  In the political realm, the phrase "a redistr ...
  • Economy News Nightmare: 20 Things That You Should ...
    Today America is very, very frustrated.  In fact, we probably have not seen this level of anger in the country since World War 2 ended.  So why are so many Americans so frustrated and so angry right now?  Well, for most Americans it comes down to the economy.  Very few things are mo ...
  • 14 Eye Opening Statistics Which Reveal Just How Dr ...
    Most Americans have become so accustomed to the "new normal" of continual economic decline that they don't even remember how good things were just a few short years ago.  Back in 2007, unemployment was very low, good jobs were much easier to get, far fewer Americans were living in p ...
  • Huge Numbers Of Dead Animals, Dead Birds And Dead ...
    Just what in the world is going on out there? Large groups of animals are keeling over dead, thousands of birds are falling out of the sky dead and millions of dead fish are washing ashore all over the globe.  Something is happening.  Do any of you know what is causing all this, be ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Quote of the Day: 'What time are you free, Nigel?' ...
    "I have written extensively on Europe, so I won’t repeat it all. But the fact remains that we’re handing new powers to Brussels faster than Labour did before us. We’ve failed to make a stand at any point. And now we have the effrontery to bring forward this “Sovereignty Bill”, which is no more than ...
  • As the mainstream media insist on talking about ph ...
    The mainstream media is - again - dominated by talk of phone hacking. So, here's the thoughts that are drifting through my mind on the subject. You and I might not have the technical knowledge or know-how to have a clue about phone hacking or how it might be achieved. However, if at the tim ...
  • Old and Sad people vote LibLabCon
    The people of Oldham & Saddleworth have voted for one of the three people from the one party state that is the LibLabCon. Voting for one of the three faces of the same old one party state nation... that'll change things. Turnout was just 48% - so the majority of people voted for nobody at all. ...
  • Quote of the Day: 'F-F-F-F-Off, Monsieur François ...
    "Let’s leave aside François Fillon’s attempts to drag Britain into someone else’s troubles, and instead focus on his main contention. Can you spot the flaw in his logic? European integration is failing, so we need more European integration! My go-kart has crashed, so I’m going to drive an articulate ...
  • Poor Sunderland. Your football team is doomed.
    Just a quick sympathy message for supporters of Sunderland Football Club. Apparently, David Miliband is in line to become the club's Vice Chairman. Taking his track record as Foreign Secretary and his actions regarding the European Union into account... ...this probably means that he's comi ...

Facing South

  • What is Art Pope's agenda for North Carolina?
    In North Carolina, there's little argument: The most important backer of conservative causes and politicians is Raleigh retail magnate Art Pope. As a Facing South series looking at Pope's influence documented, Pope's family foundation supplies about 90 percent of the income for policy groups ...
  • Mississippi Workers' Compensation Commission rulin ...
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South The Mississippi Workers' Compensation Commission and its rulings will be the subject of a months-long review by the Joint Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review, PEER Director Max Arinder said recently. "We have had some complaints filed with the ...
  • VOICES: EPA veto of mountaintop removal mine spark ...
    By Matt Wasson, Appalachian Voices In the wake of EPA's veto last week of the largest mountaintop removal mine permit ever proposed in West Virginia, the grandstanding of West Virginia politicians and "sky is falling" rhetoric from the coal industry was not surprising. Every effort to protect st ...
  • Will growing Chinese investment revive the U.S. la ...
    By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest Much of the discussion of Hu Jintao's visit to the United States is focused on China's treatment of its dissidents and its workers, but another issue is becoming increasingly important: the treatment of U.S. workers by the Chinese companies that are rapidly e ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Citizens United by the numbers
    Date on which the U.S. Supreme Court issued the landmark Citizens United decision by a 5-4 vote, ending the prohibition on corporate spending in elections and allowing certain anonymous contributions: 1/21/2010 Amount of spending by outside groups in the 2010 U.S. mid-term elections: $294.2 milli ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Ghailani Conviction Upheld by Judge Judge Lewis Kaplan upheld Ahmed Ghailaniâs conviction in connection with the U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa Friday, writing in a 56-page opinion that Ghailaniâs actions âsupport an inference of knowing and willing participation,â as … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Judge in Ghailani Case Appears Ready to Back Conviction At a hearing in federal court in New York Thursday, Judge Lewis Kaplan appeared skeptical of defense arguments that the sole conviction against Ahmed Ghailani in connection with the U.S. Embassy … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Report: White House Preparing for New Military Commission Cases at Guantanamo The New York Times reports that the Obama administration will increase the use of military commissions and is preparing to lift an order imposed on the day Obama took … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Supreme Court Declines to Hear al-Adahi Appeal The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an appeal by Guantanamo detainee Mohammed al-Adahi, who was ordered freed by a federal judge in 2009 on the grounds that the government lacked sufficient … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    NYT Report Offers Window into Defense Strategy in Ghailani Trial The New York Times offers an in-depth portrait Tuesday of the strategy defense attorneys used during the trial of Ahmed Ghailani, the first Guantanamo detainee to be tried in a … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • First Glimpses of Android 3.0 "Honeycomb"
    Android 3.0 is not just another version of Android like the recently released Android 2.3 "Gingerbread". Instead, Android 3.0 codenamed "Honeycomb" is built from scratch to suit the needs of devices with bigger screen sizes, tablets to be specific(in the current context). Google officially previewed ...
  • Top 5 Bit Torrent Clients for Ubuntu
    Applications for Ubuntu/Linux are not at all in short supply. But picking the best from the rest is not an easy thing to do. There are a number of really good bit torrent clients for Ubuntu out there. Here we intend feature a collection of 5 really good bit torrent clients for Ubuntu which we think ...
  • Broadcom Joins the Likes of Intel, AMD - Becomes a ...
    Year 2010 proved to be a gold mine as far as Linux Foundation is concerned. Not only did the adoption of Linux grew by leaps and bounds, primarily through Android OS and rest via popular Linux based distros like Ubuntu, the number of official Linux Foundation members also increased�dramatically. ...
  • New Improved Amarok 2.4 "Slipstream" Released, Ins ...
    Amarok 2.4 codenamed "Slipstream" was released some days ago. Amarok has evolved a lot over the year and we had followed the Amarok evolution in its each and every step. Now with the release of Amarok 2.4 final, a lot has changed. Here is a quick preview. What's New Amarok 2.4 "Slipstream"? A ...
  • Firefox is Now the Most Popular Browser in Europe!
    In line with the predictions we had here before, IE has not only fallen below 50% market share for the first time ever, it has now become the second most popular browser in Europe. Firefox has taken the lead and is now the most popular browser in the whole of Europe. Is that what you call as the gre ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • THE GERMAN MILITARY: TRAINING FOR FAILURE ON THE G ...
    As more details emerge about the scandals on the German navy’s flagship training frigate, the Gorch Fork, one thing seems more and more clear: the navy is systematically inculcating a culture of failure into its cadets. In response to the developments, Defence Minister Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg on ...
  • Austria’s generals oppose move to offensive ...
    Germany’s generals have often been criticized for failing to stand up more decisively to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and also for stopping the transformation of the military from a defense force into an aggressive war machine. It is heartening, therefore, to see Austrian generals making their oppositio ...
  • Irish CEO says EU/IMF loan “is giving the Ir ...
    [Editor's note: As Vienna economics professor Franz Hörmann explained, the money lent on the interbank market by banks to other banks is just fractional-reserve banking money created out of thin air and not real money or capital. So the Irish are getting an enforced loan from the EU and IMF to pay a ...
  • Economist admits “Globocrat” elites ar ...
     Bilderberg Owned Publication The Economist: Yes, Powerful “Globocrat” Elites Are Running Things, It’s Not A Conspiracy Agenda for global centralized control system is public and out in the open Steve Watson Infowars.com Friday, Jan 21st, 2011 We have referred many times to the push for a centralize ...
  • Economist warns against the ever new euro tricks t ...
    With Germany preparing a “package to bolster the European Union’s bailout fund,”  Hans Werner Sinn, head of the Ifo insitute, has once again issued a warning against expanding the euro bailout fund which is designed to channel 440 billions to banks for fradulent souvereign debts and paid for by ...

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 ...

Veterans Today

  • Afghanistan: The Karzai-Medvedev Russian Roulette
    By Khalil Nouri STAFF WRITER / EDITOR Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s recent trip to Moscow marks an unprecedented state level rendezvous by an Afghanistan Head of State. The first since the Soviet backed President Najibullah’s trip; whose term ended shortly after the Soviet Union withdrew its force ...
  • Americas great game in Afghanistan
    By Brig Asif Haroon Raja War on terror has entered tenth year but the US is still clueless when and how it will terminate the war. One of the reasons for its lack of progress is that in its given set of priorities, Afghanistan was accorded lower priority since it was considered an almost accomplishe ...
  • CHINA-US DIPLOMACY AND AF-PAK
    A Silver Line for Pakistan Brig Samson S Sharaf The visit of the Chinese President Hu Jintao to USA will not live in memory for the declarations that were made in the joint press conferences and the press releases. They are more significant in what has not been said. In the backdrop are diplomatic f ...
  • The Country Is Not a Corporation, and Layoffs Are ...
    Honestly, there are so few nuggets of genuine wisdom in Washington that watching the Sunday talk-show hackery is a form of psychological torture. If only I could afford to throw a brick through my television! The only one who ever seems to notice the real stories behind the stage sets and dramatic s ...
  • First Amendment—Minus One
    Corporate media consolidation is no news and an attack on your capacity to think Recently a MSNBC host has been deleted. I found his speech, ideas, vilification of people I admire and political ideas as awful. I am going to miss him. In America those that speak against the popular presentation of “h ...

electric politics

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

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

  • The Story Behind the Story of Chinese Delegation&# ...
    Good Morning Friends: I submit this is exactly what Comrade Clinton promised Comrade Ju in her visit back in January 2009.  REMEMBER??  (She was literally hours into her Secretary of State position, when Hillary heads to Bejing!!!) I absolutely love what Donald Trump had to say to CNN’s Wolf Blitz ...
  • Activity on the “New Madrid Fault”.
    Connecting the dots, folks, is what I try to do. Remember the “Swine Flu Pandemic” last winter?  Is that event somehow connected in any way with the Gulf oil spill and the dueterium laser attack on Deepwater Horizon?  Are the dead birds and animals in Arkansas and Kentucky connected as well?  I t ...
  • Will the REAL “Jared Lee Loughner” Ple ...
  • Is A. True Ott “Sorcha Faal”? Not Eve ...
    I have recently had a dozen or so people e-mail me concerning what I believe to have been an honest mistake — a patriot blog identified me, A. True Ott, with being “Sorcha Faal”.  The author even posted my picture.  He quickly apologized to me for his error, claiming that his “information” came fr ...
  • Top 30 Hidden FACTS about “America”
    In order to understand what is REALLY going on covertly, “behind the curtain” in America – one needs to internalize and understand the following 30 basic facts about “The Powers That Be”.  (TPTB). Thirty Little Known Facts about America 1. The IRS is NOT a U.S. Government Agency.  It is an Agency ...

k2p blog

  • Another perversion of science: Confirmation bias i ...
    Modelling the spread of 12 tree species under conditions of increasing CO2 and varying wind speed showed no effect of wind speed and the spread increased due to increased fecundity and advanced maturation due to the CO2.
  • Shocking! Study claims IKEA is confusing customers ...
    IKEA are designing their stores to confuse their customers into submission says Architecture Professor from University College London.
  • New study confirms Himalayan glaciers will not dis ...
    A new study finds glaciers largely stable or growing in the Karokarams and confirms that experts in the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) were wrong to say in a 2007 report that Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2035 in a headlong thaw.
  • Sea of Okhotsk: The saga continues…..
    Bad weather and formation of new ice impedes the the progress of the rescue efforts in the Sea of Okhotsk.
  • Global cooling indicators are increasing
    IPCC climate projections are no longer credible. Solar and ocean circulation effects have been grossly understimated by climate models. That global cooling is upon us seems more and more likely and cooling for the next 2 or 3 decades will show the current Landscheidt minimum as being comparable to t ...

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Google And Mozilla Announce New "Do Not Track Me" ...
    Google and Mozilla have posted that they're adding new features to their browsers that will let users opt out of being tracked by third-party advertisers. The move comes a few weeks after the FTC issued a report recommending browser software developers to implement such a mechanism. The two compan ...
  • Kaiser Permanente Makes Cancelling Hard, Then Send ...
    Tim has been stuck in a 7-month limbo with his ex-health insurer Kaiser Permanente that he is trying to break it off with. First he was told to write in a fax that said "I [name here] no longer want health care coverage by KP." Then it turned out they gave him the wrong fax number, which he found o ...
  • Best Buy Receipt Checker: 'I Do What I Do For Your ...
    An anonymous reader who says he works part-time for Best Buy as a "loss prevention" guy whose job it is to check your receipt as you exit the store writes in to defend his practice. He says doing his job right is not only best for him and the company, but for you, the consumer. Read on to find out ...
  • South Dakota Is Best State For Small Business
    According to the Small Business & Entrepreneur Council, if you want to start a small business, you should head for the hills of South Dakota. The state has a low crime rate and, according to the SBEC, also has a limited number of bothersome health insurance mandates. Hey, it worked for Phillip Vand ...
  • Realtor Slices Price On Snake Infested Home
    Sounds like a ssssteal. A beautiful five-bedroom house in Idaho for only $109,000. It comes with a tiny catch: The house is infested with thousands of live, writhing garter snakes. One realtor is trying to offload the property, which went into foreclosure after the previously family got sick of th ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Feds Subpoena Lawyer in CIA Leak Case: Whistleblow ...
    St. Louis Beacon: Feds Take Unusual Step of Subpoenaing Sterling's Lawyer The lawyer representing Jeffrey Sterling – the former CIA officer charged with leaking national security secrets to the press – was subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury in order to discuss Sterling’s case. Federal ...
  • Teresa Chambers Case Highlights Limitations of Whi ...
    Last week, the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) ordered the National Park Service to reinstate whistleblower Teresa Chambers as Chief of the U.S. Park Police, as well as to reimburse her for back pay and legal costs. Her case garnered national attention when she was removed by the Bush adm ...
  • Orange County Register: Which Mystery Senator Kill ...
    By Wikimedia user Markus Schweiss Orange County Register: Which Mystery Senator Killed Whistleblower Bill? This article details how the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) – a bill that would have strengthened protections for federal employees – was killed by one senator’s decis ...
  • Justice Department Leakers of Classified Info. Get ...
    Three months ago, journalist Michael Isikoff noted the disturbing "Double Standard" in White House Leak Inquiries.  But now it's not just the Executive Branch.  Josh Gerstein of Politico just published an article on how a judge ruled that the Justice Department can keep secret names of its own law ...
  • U.N. Investigations Chief Subject of Whistleblower ...
    Associated Press: U.N. Investigations Chief Under Investigation Michael Dudley, a U.N. official responsible for investigating internal misconduct, is himself the subject of an investigation involving two whistleblowers. According to complaints filed with GAP, the two whistleblowers assert they ...

UK Progressive

  • American Competitiveness, and the President’s New ...
    President Obama just appointed Jeffery Immelt, GE’s CEO, to head his outside panel of economic advisors, replacing Paul Volcker. According to White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, Immelt has “agreed to work thorugh what makes our country more competitive.” In an opinion piece in the Washington Post an ...
  • Shuster: “There Is A False Equivalency” Between Ol ...
    Former MSNBC anchor David Shuster was suspended indefinitely and finally fired last week for auditioning for another network whilst working for them. He made his 1st post firing media appearance on Sunday’s CNN’s Reliable Sources. It was also, not coincidentally, the 1st after the surprise, abrupt d ...
  • BREAKING: Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport Victim of Su ...
    Russia’s largest airport Domodedovo Airport’s Arrival Hall was struck by twin suicide bombers this afternoon. Theblast has killed at least 31 and 130+ injured, many seriously. The airport is 22 kms south of downtown Moscow and it is the busiest of the three airports in Moscow. This video (graphic wa ...
  • Dissent Will Not be Tolerated, the Revolution will ...
    PFC Manning’s Torturous Confinement, Jane Hamsher’s Thuggish Military Treatment Dissent will not be tolerated in the US military. PFC Bradley Manning is accused of supplying Wikileaks founder Julian Assange with information. For 8 months he had been in 23-hour lockdown under harsh lighting and condi ...
  • The Monday Line: Psst! Wanna Make a Movie – UK Tax ...
    The headline read ‘Investment in new film production hit £1.16 billion pounds in 2010, a record for the British film industry.’ It makes you wonder how much came out of HMRC coffers as lost tax income. By investing in ‘structured investment opportunities,’ UK companies can avoid paying taxes on prof ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • The BBC left leaning bias — it’s in their DNA
    This is a a BBC insider abandoning ship. It’s a spectacular case study in why big government can bollocks up any noble proposition, or honest profession. It’s how leadership dissolves into uninspired management as people spend other people’s money. How teams of people who no longer believe, all go t ...
  • Chomsky’s prize hyperbole: GOP win could kill us a ...
    It’s another sign of the ongoing implosion among the carbonistas: the nutter comments come out as reality hits their big dream. Noam Chomsky — linguistics professor, proves that a professorship doesn’t stop you saying silly things, and manages to spin a “vote for the conservatives” as a ticket to de ...
  • Science is played by politicians
    When an expert on small mammals announces that sea levels will rise by 100m, that’s national news. When an expert on hydrology announces that thousands of homes will be flooded sooner or later in a major capital city, it’s buried, and stays buried for four years, and even after it’s leaked, it still ...
  • Vision of The Annointed
    Thomas Sowell wrote Vision of the Anointed in 1995, and didn’t mention climate change. Yet such is the insight of the man that what he wrote was prescient, pertinent and 100% applicable 15 years later. Our battle today follows a similar pattern to  battles over many other social policies. Sowell di ...
  • While the Cat is away-Version 2
    CAT (away) + Mice = PLAY Jo is away from the computer for some fun and relaxation with her family. Jo being “off-line” leaves the controls of this blog in the hands of volunteer moderators. This time while the Cat is away: Many regular posters here use web links to make their point(s). If those [... ...

ReNew America

  • Profiling makes sense (if it can save lives)
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - How many American lives are to be sacrificed on the holy altar of "political correctness?" Hundreds more? Thousands? Millions? Whole new agencies have been created (thus contributing to the size of an already ballooning federal workforce) -- all supposedly in the interest ...
  • Abortion as a tea party issue
    (Kathryn Lopez) - Has our financial mess brought us to the brink of getting beyond the culture wars? It's a question that we might see play out on Capitol Hill in the coming months as the new majority seeks to make the late pro-life congressman Henry Hyde proud, by defunding Planned Parenthood and p ...
  • Ten Commandments restored at Virginia schools
    (Washington Times) - A school district in southwestern Virginia is re-posting copies of the Bible's Ten Commandments in all county schools, despite concerns that doing so is unconstitutional...
  • House vote to repeal more than symbolic
    (David Limbaugh) - Time will tell, but I reject the somewhat cynical view that the House Republicans' vote to repeal Obamacare is purely symbolic. I think it's quite significant. We are engaged in a war to save our nation from crippling debt and systematic assaults on our Constitution and our libert ...
  • Obama does not want abortion to be rare
    (Catholic Advocate) - As I write, staff at the White House has yet to post President Obama's message on the 38th Anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade ruling but it has been issued to the media and I am sure several groups such as Planned Parenthood and NARAL...

Truth Offering

  • Must-Read Articles From Around the Web - January 2 ...
    "The Government is a Terrorist Organization" by George Donnelly Arm Your Mind for Liberty - The criminals who run the federal government aren’t well-meaning social workers grabbing people’s crotches in the hopes of preventing the next terrorist attack. They are waging war on the American public and ...
  • Must-Read Articles From Around the Web - January 2 ...
    "Agorist Class Theory: A Left Libertarian Approach to Class Conflict Analysis" by Wally Conger Movement of the Libertarian Left - The political class is the parasitic class that acquires its livelihood via the "political means" --through "confiscation, taxation, and otherforms of coercion." Their v ...
  • Poll - Week Ending January 23, 2011
    This week's poll proves that TruthOffering.com site visitors overwhelmingly believe geoengineering is for real. And why shouldn't we believe in it? Government documents prove it's real. But, hey, I guess some people enjoy their ignorant bliss. I'd rather be awake and aware. Obviously, you would, too ...
  • Must-Read Articles From Around the Web - January 2 ...
    "2011 Bottled Water Scorecard" by The Environmental Working Group EWG.org - The bottled water industry routinely fails to provide information to consumers about the water’s source, purification methods and the results of purity testing, a new EWG investigation shows. Find your brand and see how the ...
  • Must-Read Articles From Around the Web - January 2 ...
    "The USDA’s Organic Deception" by Barbara H. Peterson Farm Wars - Organic is organic, or is it? The word “organic” is fast becoming a high-dollar money-maker for corporations smart enough to jump on the bandwagon. (more...) "Coup d’état - The Historical Framework of Globalization" by Dr. James Po ...

2012 Blog

  • George Lucas Update
    LucasFilm has responded to the recent story about George Lucas being a 2012er, as told by Seth Rogen on TV show Ellen: [Lucas] was not serious when he talked about the end of the world in 2012, but he is an adamant believer that the world is flat, that Stonehenge was built by aliens, and [...] Rel ...
  • Sea Rise Ark / Irish Giant Gene / Betelgeuse
    Experts are saying the sea levels will rise by 13 feet in the next thousand years. This is the first time such a long-range forecast has been made, and presumably the authors will never see their work disproved. I presume this work, which focuses on climate change, does not consider that the long-te ...
  • Doomsday Driver
    A woman who claimed the world was going to end in an apocalyptic earthquake Friday was arrested in the Marin Headlands on allegations of abducting four people off the streets of Berkeley and San Francisco, a federal spokeswoman said. Lark Ann Freeman, 36, of Fairfield was booked into Marin County Ja ...
  • George Lucas: 2012 Believer
    Just in, via a news report quoting Seth Rogen on a meeting he had with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg: He recalls, “George Lucas sits down and seriously proceeds to talk for around 25 minutes about how he thinks the world is gonna end in the year 2012, like, for real. He thinks it.  “He’s [...] ...
  • The Sun… and us
    A giant eruption (aka CME) on the far side of the Sun has some 2012ers bracing for the worst. Odds are everything will be OK, but this is one of those weeks in which the SH might hit TF. And we’ve just had a 7.0 earthquake in the Loyalty Islands. Might be nothing – but [...] Related posts:Global W ...

Facing South

  • What is Art Pope's agenda for North Carolina?
    In North Carolina, there's little argument: The most important backer of conservative causes and politicians is Raleigh retail magnate Art Pope. As a Facing South series looking at Pope's influence documented, Pope's family foundation supplies about 90 percent of the income for policy groups ...
  • Mississippi Workers' Compensation Commission rulin ...
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South The Mississippi Workers' Compensation Commission and its rulings will be the subject of a months-long review by the Joint Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review, PEER Director Max Arinder said recently. "We have had some complaints filed with the ...
  • VOICES: EPA veto of mountaintop removal mine spark ...
    By Matt Wasson, Appalachian Voices In the wake of EPA's veto last week of the largest mountaintop removal mine permit ever proposed in West Virginia, the grandstanding of West Virginia politicians and "sky is falling" rhetoric from the coal industry was not surprising. Every effort to protect st ...
  • Will growing Chinese investment revive the U.S. la ...
    By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest Much of the discussion of Hu Jintao's visit to the United States is focused on China's treatment of its dissidents and its workers, but another issue is becoming increasingly important: the treatment of U.S. workers by the Chinese companies that are rapidly e ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Citizens United by the numbers
    Date on which the U.S. Supreme Court issued the landmark Citizens United decision by a 5-4 vote, ending the prohibition on corporate spending in elections and allowing certain anonymous contributions: 1/21/2010 Amount of spending by outside groups in the 2010 U.S. mid-term elections: $294.2 milli ...

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

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

BlogHer

  • Plastic Surgery: Going Under the Knife to Always L ...
    Ladies, if you're 36, you're perfect. Everyone else? Listen up. At least, that's what an article by Eva Wiseman in the GUARDIAN's Observer Magazine would have you believe. I think. My British isn't great, so it's possible that Wiseman w ...
  • The Me Nobody Knew Then
    "When I first get up in the morning I feel fresh and it feels like it would be a good day to me. But after I get in school, things change and they seem to turn into problems for me. And by the end of the day I don't even feel like I'm young. ...
  • Who Cares if Abortion Is Legal if It Is Inaccessib ...
    My anti-choice friends in Kansas (bloody, bloody Kansas...) are proposing all sorts of exciting new restrictions on abortion, according to The Huffington Post, supposedly to discourage any doctor from performing second trimester abortions. N ...
  • The Scars We Can See ... and Those We Can't
    Own Your Beauty is a groundbreaking, year-long movement bringing women together to change the conversation about what beauty means. Our mission: to encourage and remind grown women that it is never too late to learn to love one's self and i ...
  • BlogHer Network Member News, Jan 24 : Arlene Gibbs ...
    Today in BlogHer Network Member News -- Arlene Gibbs of nyc/carribbean ragazza was interviewed by blogger Coco Cooks, for an EBONY Magazine article on black American expats in Rome. Julia Ladewski of Work, Wife, Mom... Life! was recently o ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Politicians Ignoring Citizens Call for Freedom of ...
    Who will speak for the citizens of the United States if not our elected officials? Last year, anyone concerned about their health and access to nutritious food and natural medicine watched in horror as the government passed ...
  • Confirmed: Mercury Cancels Out the Health Benefits ...
    Omega oils have seen a lot of attention for their greatly important benefits to brain functions, eating fish is one of the ways to get the nutritional benefit from food.  But there is a problem ...
  • Raw Milk Dairy Farm Fights Back and Wins!
    Armend Bechard defended himself during his appeal after being criminally charged over the sale of raw milk. The judge rules there is no case! With all the troubles that raw milk producers have had recently ...
  • 7 Foods So Unsafe Even Farmers Won’t Eat Them
    We’ve all been told that there are foods that should be avoided, things like high fructose corn syrup and white bread, that cause serious issues from weight gain to cancer. But have you taken the ...
  • Kentucky Farm Freedom Act: Proposed Bill Will Keep ...
    S.510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, was signed January 4th and is poised to hand the FDA unlimited power over the food supply and create costs for food producers that will drown the already sinking ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • W.Va. Sen. Rockefeller among top politicians and e ...
    Rolling Stone magazine has listed West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller among the 12 politicians and executives doing the most to block progress on dealing with global warming.  The full list is available here. This is what the magazine had to say about Sen. Rockefeller: The senior senator from the an ...
  • Why coal miners still die on the job
    MSHA has just released its final investigation report on the death of Jimmy R. Carmack, a 42-year-old section foreman who was killed when part of a mine wall fell on him on June 16, 2010, at Arch Coal Inc. subsidiary Lone Mountain Processing Inc.’s Clover Fork No. 1 Mine in Holmes Mill, Harlan Coun ...
  • Friday roundup, Jan. 21, 2011
    Gazette photo by Chris Dorst In the wake of last week’s veto of the Spruce Mine permit and this week’s big “Rally for Coal” at the West Virginia Capitol, we’ve had a good discussion going on here on Coal Tattoo about what this all means for the long-term issues surrounding the future of coal and th ...
  • The Spruce Mine Veto and the ‘Rally for Coal ...
    AP photo by Jeff Gentner We have our work cut out for us in finding a prudent and profitable middle ground â but we will not reach it by using fear mongering, grandstanding and outrage as a strategy. Sen. Robert C. Byrd, Dec. 3, 2009 I was re-reading those words this morning as I considered yesterd ...
  • ‘Rally for Coal’ draws 1,000 to W.Va. ...
    Sen. Joe Manchin, right, and West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, far left, attend a rally for coal Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011 at the Capitol in Charleston, W.Va. More than 1,000 people crowded round the well of the state Capitol’s rotunda Thursday to rally in response to a recent action by the U.S. E ...

Daniel Miessler

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

Fitwatch

  • Statement by activist security collective on Lynn ...
    The following is a statement from the ActivistSecurity.org collective following discussions with individuals involved in the expose of 'Lynn Watson' as an undercover police infiltrator. The original of this, including photographs, can be found at their website http://www.activistsecurity.org/lynn_wa ...
  • Schnews reposted
    In the interests of completeness, we reprint (with permission!) the Schnews article that broke the news about cop/govt trolling on activist websites.... INTER-NETCU AS GOVERNMENT AGENCY CAUGHT INFILTRATING ACTIVIST MEDIA OUTLET “No - stuff that - SHUT the place: Let’s not all stand around like lemmi ...
  • Met’s published photos – info for stud ...
    Once again the Met have released a set of images of people they want in connection with the student protests last Thursday. If you or one of your mates is one of them, you’ll be worried and unsure about what to do. Before you do anything, read this first. The dilemma is this - if [...]
  • Oppose intelligence led policing
    Aaron Porter, the NUS leader who has consistently condemned violence and property damage on demonstrations, has now joined ex cop Brian Paddick in calling for the Met to improve its intelligence gathering. The best case scenario is Mr Porter is ignorant and should talk to a few of the activists and ...
  • Police refuse to make public the role of undercove ...
    Once again the story of Mark Stone / Kennedy has hit the press, this time after he has apparently offered to give evidence on behalf of the defendants in the Ratcliffe trial. The trial was ultimately dropped by the prosecution after the police declined to provide disclosure relating to the former un ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • Way To Go, Glenn
    Spotlight From Glenn Beck Brings a CUNY Professor Threats | The New York Times On his daily radio and television shows, Glenn Beck has elevated once-obscure conservative thinkers onto best-seller lists. Recently, he has elevated a 78-year-old liberal academic to celebrity of a different sort, in a w ...
  • Airport Bombed in Russia
    Moscow blast: Russia’s Domodedovo airport rocked | BBC Moscow’s Domodedovo airport, the busiest in Russia’s capital, has been rocked by an explosion that has reportedly killed 31 people. More than 100 people were injured in the blast, which reports suggest may have been the work of a suicide bomber. ...
  • United States of No Compassion
    US begins deportation of Haitians | WSWS The US deported 27 Haitian nationals last Thursday, resuming forced repatriations to the devastated country a year after the massive earthquake struck of January 2010. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to send 700 immigrants back to Haiti th ...
  • I guess he wants to keep his promise, but Congress ...
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