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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.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

27 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt 3

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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

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Not-So-Neutral Net
    by Jenn EttingerThe Internet was created as an “open” or “neutral” platform, and net neutrality is the principle that ensures that Internet providers can’t interfere with a user’s ability to access any content on the Web, whether it’s a community blog, a YouTube video, or a major news site. It’s ...
  • Squeezing Ordinary Citizens from NY to California
    by Sam PizzigatiFollowing World War II, the United States produced something the world had never seen: a mass middle class. For the first time, a majority of a major nation's people had real money left over after paying for basic food and shelter.read more
  • Can New York Be Model for Democracy Reform?
    by Katrina vanden HeuvelWith the Citizens United ruling one year ago, Chief Justice Roberts and the Koch Brothers’ allies on the Supreme Court made an already lousy US campaign finance system much worse. In the 2010 midterms, we saw the floodgates open to unlimited corporate funding of candidates ...
  • US Foreign Policy and the Corruption Game
    by Juan ColeHere's one obvious lesson of the Tunisian Revolution of 2011: paranoia about Muslim fundamentalist movements and terrorism is causing Washington to make bad choices that will ultimately harm American interests and standing abroad.  State Department cable traffic from capitals through ...
  • Can US Support UN Resolution on Israeli Settlement ...
    by Robert NaimanA key resolution on the Israel-Palestine conflict is now before the UN Security Council. Largely echoing stated US policy, the resolution embraces negotiations, endorses the creation of a Palestinian state, and demands an immediate halt to Israeli settlement construction in the W ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Happy Talk On The Afghan War Is Just Spin & 2014 I ...
    By Steve Hynd President Obama had some happy-talk on the Afghan occupation last night, saying: In Afghanistan, our troops have taken Taliban strongholds and trained Afghan security forces. Our purpose is clear: By preventing the Taliban from reestablishing a stranglehold over the Afghan people, we w ...
  • The disconnect (again)
    By Dave Anderson I'm dittoing Bernard Finel's argument on the COIN tactical to strategic disconnect: By trying to suggest that local, operational successes can be assessed independently of strategic outcomes he is reinforcing the main problem in our discussions of COIN. Look, good COIN is COIN that ...
  • 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 ...

Water Wars

  • Salazar sails through ag hearing
    DENVER Former U.S. Rep. John Salazar passed an easy confirmation hearing to be the states new commissioner of agriculture Wednesday, even though uneasy feelings about future water wars colored the discussion.
  • Water Wars
    Georgia's environmental regulators have adopted rules requiring a broader review before allowing water to be taken from one basin and sent to another.
  • Arguments set in tri-state water wars case
    Associated Press - January 26, 2011 6:34 PM ET ATLANTA (AP) - An appeals court will hear arguments on the state of Georgia's request to overturn a ruling that could severely restrict metro...
  • Celebrate young adult books, meet authors at Tempe ...
    Teens and tweens who love to read can meet some of their favorite authors at YAllapalooza, Changing Hands Bookstore’s celebration of the Young Adult, or YA, genre.
  • Dwindling Rain in the Southern US
    A drought is an extended period of months or years when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply. Generally, this occurs when a region receives consistently below average precipitation. It can have a substantial impact on the ecosystem and agriculture of the affected region. Although droughts ...

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • Morning Smoke: Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission ...
    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. Financial Crisis...
  • Did the White House Put Public Relations Before Sc ...
    By Bryan Rahija POGO was hoping President Obama would touch on several key reform topics in last night's State of the Union address, but one that we were keeping a particularly watchful eye for was the issue of scientific integrity....
  • Morning Smoke: White House Spin Pollutes Oil Spill ...
    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. Congressman Accuses...
  • Reader Email of the Day
    By Bryan Rahija A POGO reader offers a new term and definition for inclusion in the POGO glossary: Public interest: Policy or action aimed at providing benefits to a broad public, rather than to a specific group of people. Benefiting...
  • Morning Smoke: Bush Cabinet Secretaries Took Polit ...
    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. Bush officials...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • 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: 1-26-11
    Today, broadcasting from Miami, Florida, Kevin explains why all men are NOT created equal and how guns could be the solution to terrorism and crime! Big Pharma: 5 Most Profitable Drugs That Never Cure You Justice: Letter From Ron Paul Government: The Ten Biggest American Cities That Are Running Out ...
  • 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 ...

Pambazuka News

  • Southern Sudan: Sowing the seeds of agricultural r ...
    After the sound of gunfire fell silent in Southern Sudan, marking the end of one of Africa's longest running civil wars, Pio Kowr Ding decided he would return home to the autonomous region to take up an agricultural research job with the government. ...
  • Ethiopia: Ethiopians to remember martyrs of the 20 ...
    Ethiopians from various cities in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia held a conference on Saturday to discuss and coordinate plans for the upcoming 5th anniversary of the Ethiopian election massacre. The participants discussed and updated each othe...
  • March on Washington scheduled for November
    The Black is Back Coalition has announced a march and rally on the White House to take place November 13, 2010 beginning in Washington, DC’s historic Malcolm X Park. This will mark the second year in a row that this black coalition will be protestin...
  • USA: Black community activist faces possible 10 ye ...
    Diop Olugbala (aka Wali Rahman) will be sentenced on Wednesday, 13 October to a possible 10 years in prison for speaking out on behalf of the rights of the black community. A press conference and demonstration will be held prior to Olugbala’s sentenc...
  • Morocco: Expats returning home in greater numbers
    Faced with the woes of the global economic crisis, an increasing number of Moroccan expatriates are coming back home. Meanwhile, the government is intensifying effort to aid the community abroad as well as help them maintain ties with their home coun...

War in Context

  • ‘Down, Down Mubarak!’
    Mohamed ElBaradei is heading back to Egypt despite direct threats against his life. He said this to Newsweek: When Egypt had parliamentary elections only two months ago, they were completely rigged. The party of President Hosni Mubarak left the opposition with only 3 percent of the seats. Imagine t ...
  • Palestine Papers: PA stonewalled the Goldstone vot ...
    The Palestine Papers reveal: On October 2, 2009, the UN Human Rights Council was widely expected to pass a resolution supporting the Goldstone Report, the UN’s probe of war crimes committed during Israel’s war in Gaza in December 2008 and January 2009. The Council instead agreed to delay a vote on ...
  • Is honesty the best foreign policy?
    We live — as politicians frequently repeat — under the rule of law and there is nothing the legal system frowns on more earnestly than perjury. Hence during trials the solemn ritual that witnesses must swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. And then there is government, ...
  • Most of South America now recognizes Palestine
    The latest announcement of diplomatic recognition of Palestine means that governments representing 304 million out of South America’s 386 million people have joined the international movement pressing for the creation of a fully sovereign Palestinian state. The Guardian reports: Peru last night an ...
  • How to resist the will of the people
    How can you placate the frustrations of a disenfranchised population without giving them real political power? The answers to this question describe the common ground that unites Western leaders with their authoritarian counterparts in the Middle East. The game is to come up with political formulae ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Trenberth at AMS defends himself against deniers
    Post by Dr. Ryan N. Maue Dr. Trenberth delivered his highly-anticipated presentation at the American Meteorological Society 91st Annual Meeting in Seattle on Wednesday.  The talk was titled “Promoting climate information and communication of climate change“, and an overflowing crowd … Continue read ...
  • Was this part of the inspiration for Obama’s ...
    During last night’s State of the Union Address, president Obama essentially abandoned AGW proponents, and shifted the focus to energy, including uttering the greens most dreaded term: “clean coal”. He also set a bold goal that raised some eyebrows: I … Continue reading →
  • Hump Day Hilarity
    We have a double feature today. Josh and The One. Josh writes: This is a tribute to Graham Stringer MP who is I hope going to be very famous for this paragraph … “There are proposals to increase worldwide taxation … Continue reading →
  • A new galaxy distance record by the Hubble Space T ...
    Hubble sees farther back in time than ever before Above: This image of the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field is a small part of the deepest infrared image ever taken of the universe. The small blue box outlines the area where astronomers … Continue reading →
  • “Hotter summers may not be as catastrophic f ...
    ‘Hidden plumbing’ helps slow Greenland ice flow Hotter summers may not be as catastrophic for the Greenland ice sheet as previously feared and may actually slow down the flow of glaciers, according to new research. A letter published in Nature on … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • A Socialist Response to the State of the Union by ...
    by Billy Wharton Guest Writer Dandelion Salad http://socialistpartynyc.blogspot.com January 25, 2011 Obama Out of Touch with the American People Tonight’s State of the Union speech revealed just how far out of touch President Barack Obama is from the reality of working people in America. What a dist ...
  • “Ask Not What Your Country Blah Blah Blah,&# ...
    By Gary Corseri Featured Writer Dandelion Salad January 27, 2011 “Truly men hate the truth; they’d liefer Meet a tiger on the road.” — Robinson Jeffers What itâs not First, letâs clarify: a âmemeâ (rhymes with âscreamâ) is not what Sarah Palin says when she goes on a family outing with her daughter; ...
  • Afghanistan: War Without End In A World Without Co ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism January 26, 2011 The largest foreign military force ever deployed in Afghanistan is now well into the tenth year of the longest and what has become the deadliest war of the 21st century. Some 154,000 o ...
  • Will the Last Mercenary Turn Out the Lights On U.S ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Black Agenda Report 25 January 2011 The United States’ use of mercenaries is unprecedented in scope for a major power in modern times, and further weakens a decaying empire. Unable to defeat the resistance in two of th ...
  • Riding With the Beast by Philip A. Farruggio
    by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad January 26, 2011 Story goes that Nixon made a late night surprise visit to the students camped out at the Lincoln Memorial in 1970. This was at the height of the Vietnam War, as tens of thousands of young folks descended upon the Capitol to prot ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    Egypt Explodes It's been a long time coming, and now it's going to be all but impossible to turn it back to the way it was. Protesters are prepared to give their lives for this fight, the Mubarak 'government' and police are not so willing. January 25 : January 26 :
  • No title
    IraqBodyCount on the Chilcot Inquiry : "Throughout the inquiry most of the attention has remained firmly fixed, fixated even, upon the interplay between political and military actors here and in the USA, and the ramifications of the war as felt by them, while the subject that is of greatest conce ...
  • No title
    Obama Praises Tunisian Uprising, But Falls Silent On Egypt Keep in mind that US President Barack Obama only began praising the remarkable events in Tunisia after the US-friendly ruling family had already fled the country. Now Egypt is on the brink of a revolution. Massive protests fill the streets ...
  • No title
    Wikileaks = Death To Dictators & America's Puppet Arab Leaders? It's all but impossible to deny that the Tunisian CableGate revelations about the corruption of that country's ruling family did not add fuel and fire to the remarkable events that exploded into a peoples' revolution and saw 'The Famil ...
  • No title
    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 ...

Wired - Science

  • Princess Leia Debuts Kinect-Powered 3-D Video Stre ...
    The Force is strong with holographic scientists these days. Researchers from MIT unveiled the fastest 3-D holographic video to date at a conference in San Francisco January 23, filming a graduate student dressed as Princess Leia and projecting her as a postcard-sized hologram in real time. The holo ...
  • Hubble Finds Galaxy Beyond Key Benchmark
    A candidate for the most-distant galaxy ever spotted has shown up in an image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The faint fuzzy blob, whose light reached Hubble from just 480 million years after the Big Bang, could be a landmark in galaxy detection. “Itâs amazing that we finally believe that we have ...
  • Carnivorous Plants Eat Poop From Tiny Bats
    By Mark Brown, Wired UK In a bizarre example of a symbiotic relationship, tiny bats in Borneo have been found using a carnivorous plant as a toilet, feeding the pitcher plant with their droppings, while they safely roost in the plant’s traps. Ulmar Grafe, an associate professor at the Universiti Br ...
  • First Earth-Orbiting Solar Sail Unexpectedly Unfur ...
    After a month and a half trapped in its mothership, NASA’s NanoSail-D spacecraft has finally unfurled the first solar sail to circle the Earth. Solar sails, gossamer-thin sheets that feel the pressure of the solar wind, have been suggested as a best hope for propelling spacecraft between the stars. ...
  • Legendary Dinosaur King Didn’t Survive on Fast Foo ...
    According to the latest installment in the ongoing saga over the king of dinosaurs’ dietary habits, Tyrannosaurus rex was not simply an oversize scavenger. By the time T. rex was lucky enough to find a carcass, smaller animals would have stripped it to the bone first, claims a new study of the gian ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Remembering Howard Zinn
    We remember Howard Zinn, our friend and teacher (and among the first members of the IOA Advisory Board), who passed away on 27 January 2010, leaving a formidable legacy. In the words of his friend,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Erekat: US, British citizens are responsible for l ...
    Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Wednesday in an interview with the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television that a U.S. citizen, who worked in the U.S. State Department, and a British citizen,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Ma’aleh Adumim mayor demands Netanyahu build West ...
    Ma'aleh Adumim Mayor Benny Kasriel has demanded Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explain reports that he had secretly promised the US that Israel would not build new neighborhoods in E1, a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...
  • ‘Demolition of Palestinian homes in West Bank’s Ar ...
    A B'Tselem report reveals that as a result, 472 Palestinians, including 223 minors, lost their homes last year, up from 217 - including 60 minors - in 2009. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA webs ...
  • Amira Hass: The real Palestinian concession
    Both Palestinian rivals know how to use the resilience and creativity of their people in the face of the daily torture that is foreign rule. But they do not help translate this personal and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Jose Holguin-Veras Named William Howard Hart Profe ...
    Transportation engineering expert Jose Holguin-Veras has been named the William Howard Hart Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. An endowed professorship is among the highest honors bestowed on a Rensselaer faculty member.
  • Bach to the Future: Cornell Inaugurates Its New 18 ...
    Cornell University will celebrate its new baroque pipe organ - built based on the plans of the renowned 18th-century Schnitger organ in the Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin, destroyed in World War II - with a series of concerts and lectures from March 8-13, 2011 at Anabel Taylor Hall and other campus v ...
  • Men More Likely to Stick with Girlfriends Who Slee ...
    Men are more than twice as likely to continue dating a girlfriend who has cheated on them with another woman than one who has cheated with another man.
  • Daily Electronic Assessments Help Fibromyalgia Pat ...
    Hand-held PDA devices for recording daily symptoms are helping fibromyalgia patients and their doctors better understand links between pain, emotional distress and fatigue in this complex pain disorder, according to research reported in The Journal of Pain.
  • New Study Identifies Frequent Causes of Analgesic ...
    The frequency of analgesic drug errors in hospitals is nearly 3 per 1,000 prescriptions, based on a study performed in a 631-bed tertiary care facility and published in The Journal of Pain.

Natural Health News

  • The Longest Ride
    Standup paddler surfers go on one of the longest rides around, at the Cook Inlet near Girdwood, Alaska.
  • World's Best Slip and Slide
    A high-speed winch, an 8 foot ramp, and a whole bunch of crazy people make the best Slip and Slide ever!
  • Anti-Fluoride Campaigners Take to Britain's High C ...
    Anti-fluoride campaigners are appealing to Britain�s High Court in an attempt to prevent fluoride from being added to their water without their consent.� The potential side-effects, the campaigners argue, can range from bone cancer to thyroid problems to dental fluorosis. The South Central Stra ...
  • ALERT -- Email this to Your Parents and Grandparen ...
    Here�s something you might not have known about AOL -- 80 percent of the company's profits come from subscribers, but 75 percent of those subscribers are paying for something they don't actually need. Many of AOL�s subscribers are older people who don't realize that they do not need to pay an extr ...
  • Sunscreen Causes Vitamin D Deficiency
    Tyler Attrill, a 12-year-old girl has vitamin D deficiency that may have been caused by using strong sun cream. �The condition came to light when she failed to recover properly from surgery. According to BBC News: �Tyler Attrill used factor 50 cream which, according to her consultant, coul ...

Antemedius

  • Bradley Manning's Torture Commonplace in U.S. Pris ...
    The corrosive, solitary confinement being inflicted upon PFC Bradley Manning in the Quantico, Va., brig is no exceptional torture devised exclusively for him. Across the length and breadth of the Great American Prison State, the world's largest, with its 2.4-million captives stuffed into 5,000 overc ...
  • The Heck With SOTU, Let's Talk Milk Testing!
    So, this morning everyone is talking about the State of the Union which means I am going to talk about…milk. And no, it is not Harvey Milk. The FDA is looking at testing milk for antibiotics. There is actually nothing new in that, currently there are six antibiotics that are commonly tested for i ...
  • Tomgram: Michael Klare, Resource Revolts
    Originally published at 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 his ...
  • Another Game of Congressional Chicken: Filibuster ...
    Cross posted from the Stars Hollow Gazette It doesn't look like the Senate Democrats have the courage to stand up the the very loud Republican minority and reform filibuster. As reported by Paul Kane in the Washington Post, the Senate has ground to a halt in order to continue to consider the rules ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Registration Begins: 2011 ILA Asia-Pacific Regiona ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The Chinese (Taiwan) Society of International Law is pleased to hold the International Law Association (ILA) Asia-Pacific Regional Conference from May 29 to June 1, 2011 at the Grand Formosa Regent Taipei, a Four Seasons Hotel, in Taipei, Taiwan. The theme of the confere ...
  • Arizona’s Proposed Constitutional Amendment to Pro ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I’ve been restrained in criticizing state laws that purport to ban the use of international or foreign law in state courts, as in Oklahoma and now one proposed in Arizona.  I think they are largely harmless, and probably constitutional.   But I am still struck by the u ...
  • Massachusetts High Court Finds Vienna Convention o ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Actually, I am not quite sure, since all I have is this report on the recent decision of the Supreme Judicial Circuit of Massachusetts holding that the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations gives foreign nationals legal rights to the notification of their consular offi ...
  • Arizona’s Proposed Constitutional Amendment ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I’ve been restrained in criticizing state laws that purport to ban the use of international or foreign law in state courts, as in Oklahoma and now one proposed in Arizona.  I think they are largely harmless, and probably constitutional.   But I am still struck by the u ...
  • More on the Philippines Supreme Court Plagiarism S ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Even more revelations in the plagiarism scandal that has caused an uproar among the faculty of the University of the Philippines and the Philippines Supreme Court. MANILA, Philippines – Supreme Court Justice Mariano del Castillo plagiarized at least 20 more times in the ...

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

  • Help Yourself It's All Free
    Halting the demise of social civilisation is probably beyond the scope of this blog (should Google ever deign to return it for a search), BUT helping the walking wounded is a possibility. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 'The Palestine Papers': MASSIVE NEW LEAK LIFTS LID ...
    Papers reveal who holds power- Leaked docs show Palestinians pleading with dismissive US officials in face unyielding Israeli negotiators! Israel spurned 'biggest Jerusalem in history' Ugly game -SHAM- now, finally, over. Palestine papers: live updates! Submitted by PeasantDiva WorldMinga to World ...
  • Vint Cerf's message to Australia: internet censors ...
    "JULIA Gillard's bid to censor the internet...."Submitted by Audrey Wildlife Matters to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The Toxin So Dangerous - Even CDC Now Warns Agains ...
    A new study has found that the protective shield fluoride forms on teeth is up to 100 times thinner than previously believed. This raises questions about how this renowned cavity-fighter really works. Submitted by Ellyn S. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Hot Flashes
    Kudos to Mack David of Queensland, who contributed many YouTube stories on FaceBookSubmitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • No proof WikiLeaks breaking law, inquiry finds - T ...
    No proof WikiLeaks breaking law, inquiry finds - The Globe and Mail: "A company asked by Visa to investigate WikiLeaks' finances found no proof the group's fundraising arm is breaking the law in its... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Afghan officials want to prolong detentions of sus ...
    Afghan officials want to prolong detentions of suspects without trial :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]: "Afghan justice and security... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Egypt blocks social media websites in attempted cl ...
    Egypt blocks social media websites in attempted clampdown on unrest :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]: "Facebook, Google, Hotmail and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Mayoral hopeful Leland Yee gets racist death threa ...
    Mayoral hopeful Leland Yee gets racist death threats : City Insider: "Mayoral candidate and state Sen. Leland Yee said racist death threats were faxed to his San Francisco and Sacramento offices... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Iraq toys with polygamy as solution for war widows ...
    Iraq toys with polygamy as solution for war widows :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]: "Years of conflict in Iraq have left the country... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Truth Squad Radio: Hydrolic Fracture Mining and th ...
    People are getting sick, and are having to walk away from their homes because property values have plummeted due to environmental poisoning from these operations.
  • 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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • DHS to Scrap Color Code Terror Alerts by April
    ShareThisDHS to Scrap Color Code Terror Alerts by April 26 Jan 2011 Tomorrow Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano will announce that the much maligned color-code threat level, formally called the Homeland Security Advisory System, will be replaced with a more specific public alert system according to ...
  • Gaza war report was stalled by Palestinian Authori ...
    ShareThisGaza war report was stalled by Palestinian Authority on US request --Papers reveal PA held up Goldstone report from UN security council 26 Jan 2011 Palestinian Authority leaders co-operated with US officials in a bid to postpone the reference of the Goldstone report into war crimes in Gaza ...
  • Iraq Cabinet Approves Deal To Buy 18 F16 Fighters ...
    ShareThisIraq Cabinet Approves Deal To Buy 18 F16 Fighters From US -Spokesman 26 Jan 2011 The Iraqi government approved a deal to buy 18 F-16 multi-role fighters from the U.S., a government spokesman said Wednesday. "The cabinet has authorized Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki who is also the acting De ...
  • NATO not to leave Afghanistan after 2014 transitio ...
    ShareThisNATO not to leave Afghanistan after 2014 transition: official 26 Jan 2011 NATO and the countries participating in the operation in Afghanistan will not leave the country after 2014, when Afghan troops will have taken over the security responsibility, a senior NATO official said Tuesday. NAT ...
  • Poll in Germany: 89.5 doubt official version of 9/ ...
    ShareThisPoll in Germany: 89.5 doubt official version of 9/11 Posted by coop 21 Jan 2011 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 ...

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

  • More vindication for Goldstone: British news repor ...
    It sounds really terrible to say 'cleanse' but those were the orders. - Israeli tank commander Wednesday night the British television network Channel 4 ran the story above using footage from a documentary shot by Israeli filmmaker Nurit Kedar. These testimonies, like those collected by Bre ...
  • Goldberg-Ibish (and Malley-Agha) counsel Palestini ...
    In their New York Times piece today advising Palestinians on how to achieve freedom, Jeffrey Goldberg and Hussein Ibish ignore the civil society movement that is transforming the struggle and warn the Palestinians not to make Israel uncomfortable.� everal Latin American states have recognized t ...
  • A mind is a terrible thing to waste
    Ali Gharib reports at Lobelog: On December 23,�right-wing pro-Israel activist�Noah Pollak was wandering through the Athens airport when he�snapped a picture of an HSBC advertisement containing this factoid: "Only 4% of American films are made by women. In Iran it�s 25%." Pollak�tweeted the pic ...
  • Palestine Papers: US intimidated PA into stifling ...
  • ‘The days of ‘48 have come again’: 15 ...
    Inside the "Abu Eid Refugee Camp," 15 km from Tel Aviv (photo by Guy Botebia) On December 13, 17-year-old Hamza Abu Eid was taken out of class and summoned to the principal’s office. “The Israelis are destroying your house right now,” the principal told him. “It is best that you remain here. ...

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

  • Resurrection
    03 August 2009 Sangin, Afghanistan The bugs are not bad in this part of Afghanistan.� The scorched terrain is biologically boring.� Mice and ferret-like creatures dash around in the evenings when sparrows and doves and a few other sorts of birds flutter through the cool air.� But even at sunrise, ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • 20-Year-Old Permaculture Forest Garden in the Moun ...
    Image credit: Perennial Solutions Whether it's an awesome tour of Mike Feingold's permaculture allotment, footage of the famous Greening the Desert project in Jordan, or the BBC's discovery of forest gardening, we have seen plenty of great videos about permaculture gardens. But exampl...Read th ...
  • 4 Surprising Places to Avoid Buying Seafood From
    Alternet has an interesting roundup of four places where you should avoid purchasing seafood if you want it to be sustainable. Find out why Costco, Legal Seafood, Nobu and H.E.B. should be on your no-shop list. For what seafood you can buy guilt-free, check out our sustainable seafood select ...
  • Genetic Architecture: When Buildings Think With Th ...
    Karl Chu knows he is a man way ahead of his time. It’s a time when, he posits, humans have transcended their bodies to exist on multiple planes, contribute to a global brain, and write apps with their genomes. But it’s the implications for architecture that are really exciting, says Chu. The ...
  • Sex Used By Police As Strategy to Disrupt Protests ...
    Many eco activists were shocked enough when a prominent protester came out as an undercover cop and expressed remorse for deceiving his activist comrades. But then came news of sexual liaisons with protesters, and another former undercover agent who even married one of his targets. Now Tamsin A ...
  • Massive Seed Swap Keeps Biodiversity Growing
    Image credit: Seedy Sunday I guess spring really is on its way. From collecting fruit tree scions to community-run seed libraries to seed libraries in libraries, biodiversity in the garden seems to be a hot topic right now. I've just come across a story about what might just be the mother of al ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Investors sue Bank of America subsidiary for fraud
    [JURIST] Twelve plaintiffs on Monday combined to file a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] in the New York State Supreme Court [official website] against Countrywide Financial Corporation [NYT backgrounder] alleging widespread fraud that resulted in substantial financial losses. The plaintiffs invested hundre ...
  • Arizona federal judge declares judicial emergency
    [JURIST] The US Courts for the Ninth Circuit [official website] announced [press release] on Tuesday that Chief Judge Roslyn Silver of the US District Court of Arizona [official website] has declared a judicial emergency [order; PDF] under the Speedy Trial Act [18 USC § 3161-3174]. Judge Silver's or ...
  • Vietnam court sentences democracy activist convict ...
    [JURIST] A Vietnamese court on Wednesday sentenced former communist official Vi Duc Hoi to eight years in prison for advocating democracy and a multiparty system. Hoi was convicted of violating Vietnam's national security for information contained in articles he posted on the internet. According to ...
  • UK government proposes revised control order polic ...
    [JURIST] UK Home Secretary Theresa May [official profile] addressed Parliament [official website] on Wednesday to announce proposed changes [press release] to the country's anti-terrorism policies, including the controversial use of control orders [Guardian backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. Contro ...
  • Tunisia issues international arrest warrant for fo ...
    [JURIST] Tunisia's Justice Minister Lazhar Karoui Chebbi announced Wednesday that the country has issued an international arrest warrant for ousted president Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali [BBC profile]. Ben Ali, his wife and other family members face allegations that they illegally transferred money [AFP ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • 'We Do Big Things': The Annotated State of the Uni ...
    Over the years, I've often done day-after annotations of the State of the Union address, to go through the text the way a speechwriting crew might to examine why things were said the way they weren't -- and what else might have been said. For instance, last year's is here. Now, this year's installm ...
  • A Sign of the Bispartisan Times: Labor, Business R ...
    "Dogs and cats, living together ... mass hysteria!" -Dr. Peter Venkman, "Ghostbusters" That's what it feels like around Washington these days, after Democrats and Republicans sat together at Tuesday night's State of the Union address. Everyone seems to be getting along. In perhaps the ...
  • Public Enemies: Councilman Sentenced for Offending ...
    It's hard to imagine former Bush Administration officials suffering any consequences for multiple violations of federal electioneering law detailed by the Office of Special Counsel. Accountability, it seems, is for little people, or relatively little people, like elderly, former Boston City Counc ...
  • Obama's Past Sputnik Moments
    Hillary Clinton referenced Sputnik repeatedly in her stump speeches during 2007 and 2008, and after Obama won the nomination, it started appearing in his remarks as well: Here's this from an event in Flint, MI on 6/16/08 "Now, reforming our education system will require sustained effort from all ...
  • Little New on Education in Obama's Address
    For all of the anticipation among educators that Obama's State of the Union address would place school reform front and center, the speech was surprisingly light on education, largely rehashing past rhetoric and skimming substance. This was strategic--Obama has just a year left to govern before his ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • ‘Iranium’ Heritage Foundation Premiere, Iranian St ...
    Now, the moment so many of you have all been waiting for: the première of Clarion Fund/Aish Hatorah’s latest magnum opus in its epic trilogy of Islamophobia.  Iranium is coming.  It will be premiered (where else) at the Heritage Foundation and introduced by one of the great neocon charlatans, Ric ...
  • Kahanist Orthodox Right Seeks to Make Israeli Comm ...
    In Germany, Nazis were proud to empty important segments of society of Jews and make them Judenrein.  Ridding the nation of the noxious influence of Judaism became an idée fixe, an obsession and ideological underpinning of the fascist movement.  I’ve noted here in the past, most recently with the ...
  • Goldberg-Ibish: Peace Process Not Lost, Bibi-Abbas ...
    Jeffrey Goldberg and Hussein Ibish published an absurd op-ed in today’s N.Y. Times touting the ‘radical’ idea that the peace process isn’t dead, just sleeping.  Given the release of the Palestine Papers over the past few days and their profound impact, signalling the entombment of the current proce ...
  • Links for 2010-05-04 [Digg]
    Dershowitz Incites Hate Against Michael Lerner It is absolutely no accident that Alan Dershowitz singled Rabbi Michael Lerner out for special opprobrium in his most recent Jerusalem Post and Huffington Post column...
  • Palestine Papers: PA Collaborated With Israel to K ...
    Now I see why Fatah protesters occupied Al Jazeera’s offices in Ramallah yesterday.  Today’s publication of the Palestine Papers series exposes the PA negotiators with Israel as collaborating in the assassination of their own Fatah-affiliated militants in Gaza.  To be clear, I’m not one who favors ...

Ode Magazine

  • The intangible goodness within us all
    By: Jeremy Mercer The most recent episode of RadioLab, the science show produced by WNYC in New York, investigates the source of human goodness and it includes an astoundingly inspiring insight into heroism. Most of the show investigates the quandary of altrui ...
  • Ode wins two Eddie awards
    By: EmilyAviles We're proud of the two Eddie awards, announced Tuesday at the 2010 Folio Awards Gala in New York City. Ode won gold prizes in the News/Commentary/General Interest, Full Issue category for the August 2009 issue on laughter and the Supplemental Annual ...
  • The music and rhythm of Japan
    By: Anne Thomas Sendai, where I live in Japan, has quite a good music scene. There are many choral groups, jazz ensembles, pop music revenues, classical music concerts, and traditional Japanese music performances. All these are supported and highly respected. ...
  • 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 ...

OpEd News

  • John Boehner and the Republican Lie Machine
    John Boehner is and was a student of Karl Rove, his top student. Many of us who have been reporting on politics for many years now have watched John Boehner embrace the politics of the second Bush era and thrive in that political system.
  • Fraudulent colleges ruin lives
    During the 08-09 academic year,for-profit colleges siphoned off $4.3 billion of federal student aid.If the students can't pay those loans back,who cares? Students who attend for-profit colleges account for only 12%, but they represent nearly half of student loan defaults.Those students will be hound ...
  • Reagan's Ghost
    The theme last night was, let's all make nice here in the sand box, after all, we're all Republican's here. It greatly reminded me of a Soviet People's Party Congress. Everyone applauds at the appropriate time, everyone stands and cheers for the new five year plan.
  • Corporate Media: Hang your heads in shame
    Under authoritarian regimes, the media is controlled and policed by the state and its security and military arms. In democracies we are supposed to have a free media, truthfully, impartially and responsibly reporting news and events domestically and internationally. Unfortunately we do not; replaci ...
  • Healing Earth Healing Self
    This article introduces the reader to the relationship between health and sustainable ways of growing food. It then links sustainable practices to healthy dietary practices and life styles. Article provides some initial advice regarding sustainable ways of purchasing and growing food while also ide ...

Switchboard

  • The President's Plan for Electric Vehicles
    As I blogged about yesterday, winning the global electric vehicle race will require the U.S. to do what Asia and Europe are doing – and more. Today the White House followed up to the President's bold Clean Energy plan with details on spurring the plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) industry ...
  • Salmon Fever!
    The President's quip about salmon in last night's State of the Union has hooked the nation.  Trying to draw attention to the layers of federal regulation, President Obama said "the Interior Department is in charge of salmon while they’re in fresh water, but the Commerce Department hand ...
  • California Diesel Measures: A Look at the Big Pict ...
    After the California Air Board voted to delay and weaken key diesel regulations last month, the mood among environmental, health and community advocates was pretty glum.  And more than a few businesses (like these) that invested in clean equipment and technology were also disappointed. ...
  • Response to SOTU; carbon offsets, and environmenta ...
    In USA Today’s GreenHouse blog, Frances Beinecke commended President Obama for standing up for the health of the American people rather than big polluters in his State of the Union address last night; Frances was also quoted in the Florida Sun Sentinel online and the Baltimore Sun’s B’ ...
  • A Positive Development in Sacramento
    I recently attended the groundbreaking for an exciting new project in downtown Sacramento.  La Valentina is being built on a formerly polluted site that sat vacant for two decades.  That’s a long time to wait to turn valuable property into something attractive and functional.  When com ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • The Pain Caucus Review
    Shorter Fred Hiatt:   We are disappointed that Barack Obama didn’t boldly come out in favor for slashing Social Security for people younger than me.   This leaves open the possibility that benefits will have to be cut in the distant future, which would be an utter catastrophe. Related posts:To ...
  • Mediation and Mediatization
    Ben O’Loughlin provides a few more examples why complete information freedom isn’t always in the public interest: When delicate political negotiations are needed, perhaps journalists need to get out of the way. Gadi Wolfsfeldâs studies of peace processes have shown how journalistic discretion in No ...
  • Gender Inequality in Academia
    Still very much exists. [via] Related posts:That Liberal Academia! Why Inequality Matters Against Abortion Inequality Related posts:That Liberal Academia! Why Inequality Matters Against Abortion Inequality
  • Egypt blogging
    Ellis Goldberg, a bona fide expert of Egyptian politics (and UW Political Science professor) happens to be in Cairo at the moment and has started blogging about the evolving situation. A recommended source for anyone seeking informed commentary on the situation as it evolves (along with Juan Cole, o ...
  • Ask your doctor if political blogging is right for ...
    One of the disadvantages of this medium is that its messengers are sometimes afflicted by Editor-Absence Dysfunction, or “E.D.” He still loves his wife. But after 25 years of marriage, he has lost his enthusiasm for sex with her. Still. It is Valentine’s Day. And she has been hinting. So he takes he ...

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.

  • Law school Web sites judged; some found wanting
    There are a lot of law students happily lounging under trees out there — if law school Web sites are to be believed. A recent study of Web sites for all 200 accredited law schools found that 65 included photos of students in or around trees, a phenomenon the authors dubbed "Girls Under Trees."
  • Plaintiff claims referral shows problems with CAFA
    A purported class action over a cellphone company's service plan spent nearly five years in the courts before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit asked the Supreme Court of Washington to advise on a legal question in the case.
  • Problems loom for state, federal courts in Los Ang ...
    The future of the courts in Los Angeles County "hangs in the balance" since California Gov. Jerry Brown proposed sweeping budget cuts earlier this month, the county's top state judge warned on Wednesday.
  • Finally passing the bar, 'pretend' robber refused ...
    A law graduate who finally passed the bar exam after eight attempts nevertheless will remain without a license to practice, partly because he pretended to be a robber on April Fool's day.
  • Obama gently knocks lawyers, lobbyists in State of ...
    The president trained as a lawyer, but lawyers were still among his targets in his State of the Union address. On two issues, the tax code and medical costs, he pointed a finger at lawyers as part of the problem.

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

  • Somaliland Editor Sentenced to Three Years in Pris ...
    Mohamud Abdi Jama, the editor of the private daily Waheen, guilty on charges of defamation and 'spreading false news,' local journalists told CPJ. The judge who issued the ruling on Saturday also fined Jama six million shillings (US$900).
  • UN Agency Promotes Women's Rights and Full Partici ...
    Ms. Bachelet said UN Women would focus on five core principles: enhancing implementation of international accords by national partners; backing intergovernmental processes to strengthen the global framework on gender equality; advocating gender equa
  • Israel Encourages Drug Use Among Arabs in Jerusale ...
    At a seminar in Bethlehem, Dr. As'ad Al-Ramlawi, Director of the PA Health Ministry's department of First Aid and Chairman of the Palestinian National Council to Fight AIDS, accused Israel of encouraging drug use among Palestinians in Jerusalem.
  • The New START Treaty Between The United States and ...
    I warmly welcome the ratification by the Russian Parliament of the new START Treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation.
  • NASA's Hubble Finds Most Distant Galaxy Candidate ...
    The new research offers surprising evidence that the rate of star birth in the early universe grew dramatically, increasing by about a factor of 10 from 480 million years to 650 million years after the big bang.

environment 360

  • Innovative Car Charging Plan Begins on Experimenta ...
    The U.S.-owned Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and the non-profit Electric Power Research Institute have launched a prototype car-charging station that allows electric vehicles to charge their batteries using solar power while also enabling that solar energy to be fed into the grid when not needed ...
  • Climate Benefits of Natural Gas May Be Overstated, ...
    A new U.S. study casts doubt on the contention that natural gas delivers significantly cleaner energy than other fossil fuels. While natural gas advocates have said that it generates 50 percent less greenhouse gases than coal, that calculation does not include the methane and other pollutants emitte ...
  • New Water Resource Tool Maps Ground Permeability W ...
    Canadian researchers have produced a map illustrating the permeability of the porous surface rocks and sediments worldwide, a tool they say will emerge as a critical resource in water resource management and climate modeling. Using recent lithology results documenting rock types worldwide, scientist ...
  • Global Accords to Preserve Forests Fail to Address ...
    Global accords that aim to prevent the destruction of the world’s most vulnerable forests are doomed to fail because they do not address the core issues spurring deforestation, particularly the rising demand for food crops and biofuels, according to a new report. Policymakers pay too much attention ...
  • Living in the Anthropocene: Toward a New Global Et ...
    A decade ago, Nobel Prize-winning scientist Paul Crutzen first suggested we were living in the “Anthropocene,” a new geological epoch in which humans had altered the planet. Now, in an article for Yale Environment 360, Crutzen and a coauthor explain why adopting this term could help transform the pe ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Scientists claim new geoglyph find in Nazca, Peru
    Two scientists from Yamagata University in Japan reported finding two new geoglyphs in southern Peru’s Nazca province, Andina reported. The new geoglyphs depict a human head and an animal figure that the researchers have yet to identify, state news agency Andina reported. According to the archaeolog ...
  • UN Human Rights Official Claims 9-11 Was US Plot
    Richard Falk, a retired professor from Princeton University, wrote on his blog that there had been an “apparent cover up” by American authorities. He added that most media were “unwilling to acknowledge the well-evidenced doubts about the official version of the events” on 9-11, despite it containin ...
  • Russian Airport Suicide Bomber Yell ’I’ll Kill You ...
    "There were yells and shouts and those who could move pulled out themselves up and disappeared." Russian authorities tell AFP that the detached head of the supposed suicide bomber was found and we saw the head of a man of Arab appearance, aged 30 to 35, a law enforcement administrator told AFP. Offi ...
  • Gitmo detainee gets life sentence in embassy plot
    The first former Gitmo detainee to be brought before a US civilian court was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for his role in the 1998 bombing of US embassies in Africa. The ruling renewed the debate over whether accused terrorists should be tried in the US civilian court system. A key gov’t witn ...
  • Mysterious Indonesian Crop Circle being investigat ...
    Indonesian Air Force chief Marshall Imam Sufaat on Monday instructed his staff to use a helicopter to take aerial photographs of crop circles discovered on Sunday. Crop circle was formed in the rice fields in Krasakan, Jogotirto Village, District Berbah, Sleman, Yogyakarta on 23rd January, 2011. The ...

Russia Today

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

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Can journalism education rise to the challenge?
    Most journalism programs face the same challenges: How to find, employ and retain faculty who are comfortable teaching new skills and techniques. How to provide equipment and software to students (especially with shrinking budgets). How to keep up with a rapidly changing field. Perhaps most im ...
  • 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 ...

Facing South

  • BP spill commissioners face congressional committe ...
    When the BP spill commissioners testify today before House and Senate committees about their investigation into what caused the deadly Deepwater Horizon disaster and their recommendations for regulatory reform, they'll be speaking to politicians whose campaigns the oil and gas industry has invested ...
  • BP oil spill commission taking case for industry r ...
    The leaders of President Obama's national commission on the BP oil spill will be in Washington tomorrow testifying about their findings to key House and Senate committees -- and one of those leaders was in North Carolina yesterday delivering a preview of their message. William K. Reilly, ...
  • 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 ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • The Jasmine Revolution
    Tunisians proved that an oppressed Arab society can rise up against a dictatorship and demand democracy. With any luck, the statement will be heard, maybe even emulated, around the region.
  • 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.

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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 ?

  • How can I repair a silicone baking mat?
    We’ve had another email from our good friend Petra: I’ve got a question about a silicone baking mat. I have two of them, but accidentally in both of them there is a cut from a knife or pizza slicer. Does anyone know of a method to repair these cuts? I can’t think of something myself [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle whiteboard marker pens?
    We’ve had an email from Julie asking: Can I recycle whiteboard marker pens? What plastic are they? I don’t know what plastic they are. I’ve spent about an hour this morning reading the “about our products” page of all the marker pen manufacturers I can think of but no one mentions that – and no [... ...
  • What one thing would you like to see everyone redu ...
    Happy New Year everyone! Last year, at the start of 2010, I asked everyone what they were going to reduce, reuse and recycle in 2010. I said I hoped to cut back on buying clothes & do more cooking/baking at home to cut down on pre-packed food packaging (which I’ve done), and set up dedicated [...]
  • Revisited: How can I reuse or recycle old wellingt ...
    A bit of a blast from the past – GaryLamontL has asked @recycle_this on Twitter about reuses for wellies: Just wondering if you have any ideas on what to do with 3 old pairs of wellies I have. They leak and I have enough planters! We’ve covered this before but a lot of the ideas [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle restaurant menus?
    Jessica left a message on the “suggest an item” page: Hello, I work in a restaurant where we get new menus about every two weeks. They are nice menus, but have worn edges, maybe, some wear and tear. But we throw these menus out by the hundreds every two weeks. It seems so wasteful to [...]

Mondoweiss

  • More vindication for Goldstone: British news repor ...
    It sounds really terrible to say 'cleanse' but those were the orders. - Israeli tank commander Wednesday night the British television network Channel 4 ran the story above using footage from a documentary shot by Israeli filmmaker Nurit Kedar. These testimonies, like those collected by Bre ...
  • Goldberg-Ibish (and Malley-Agha) counsel Palestini ...
    In their New York Times piece today advising Palestinians on how to achieve freedom, Jeffrey Goldberg and Hussein Ibish ignore the civil society movement that is transforming the struggle and warn the Palestinians not to make Israel uncomfortable.� everal Latin American states have recognized t ...
  • A mind is a terrible thing to waste
    Ali Gharib reports at Lobelog: On December 23,�right-wing pro-Israel activist�Noah Pollak was wandering through the Athens airport when he�snapped a picture of an HSBC advertisement containing this factoid: "Only 4% of American films are made by women. In Iran it�s 25%." Pollak�tweeted the pic ...
  • Palestine Papers: US intimidated PA into stifling ...
  • ‘The days of ‘48 have come again’: 15 ...
    Inside the "Abu Eid Refugee Camp," 15 km from Tel Aviv (photo by Guy Botebia) On December 13, 17-year-old Hamza Abu Eid was taken out of class and summoned to the principal’s office. “The Israelis are destroying your house right now,” the principal told him. “It is best that you remain here. ...

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 )

  • Abortion 'does not lead to mental health problems'
    A major claim of anti-abortion campaigners appears to have been undermined by a new study showing termination of pregnancy does not lead to mental health problems. Although women who had abortions were found to have a higher incidence of pre-existing mental health problems in a major new study relat ...
  • Corruption at the Global Fund: part 2
    Can searching out corruption ever be a mistake for an aid agency to make? Perhaps, if it loses some control over the way the story is portrayed in the media. Witness the experience of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which has been praised for its transparency in uncover ...
  • New House science committee roster will tackle fun ...
    On the same day that President Obama delivered his annual State of the Union Address stressing science and education investments, Democrats announced their picks for ranking members on the subcommittees of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. The selections will be finalized during the ...
  • Researchers push for UK mines for ‘strategically i ...
    Britain should return to its mining past in order to secure its future supply of strategically important metals, researchers told a Parliamentary hearing today. In recent months concerns have continued to fester regarding the supply of key raw materials such as the ‘rare earth elements’ which are ...
  • Obama touts science, education in State of the Uni ...
    US President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union address last night, invoking innovation and education in science and technology as central to his nation’s prosperity and well being. In contrast to previous years, Obama did not face any outbusts or breaches of decorum from a Congress ...

new geography

  • Chicago: The Cost of Clout
    The Chicago Tribune has been running a series on the challenges facing the next mayor. One entry was about the Chicago economy. It described the sad reality of how Chicago�s economy is in the tank, and has been underperforming the nation for the last few years. I�ll highlight the part about challe ...
  • Forged in Pittsburgh: The Football Industry & The ...
    When will the Labor Department come up with a statistic (GEP or Gross Entertainment Product) to measure to extent to which the economy is dependent on fun? The Pittsburgh Steelers are, at the very least, the emotional heart of Pittsburgh. In season on Sundays, the faithful wear their jerseys to ch ...
  • 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 ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • Canadian Authorities Arrest Former Guatemalan Spec ...
    Via: Los Angeles Times: A Moreno Valley martial arts instructor suspected of belonging to the Guatemalan military unit that killed more than 150 civilians, including children, in the country’s infamous Dos Erres massacre in 1982 has been arrested on immigration fraud charges after fleeing from feder ...
  • E-mails Suggest Bear Stearns Cheated Clients Out o ...
    Via: The Atlantic: Former Bear Stearns mortgage executives who now run mortgage divisions of Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Ally Financial have been accused of cheating and defrauding investors through the mortgage securities they created and sold while at Bear. According to e-mails and interna ...
  • DOJ Seeks Mandatory Data Retention Requirement for ...
    Via: Computerworld: The U.S. Department of Justice and an organization representing police chiefs from around the country renewed calls on Tuesday for legislation mandating Internet Service Providers (ISP) to retain certain customer usage data for up to two years. The calls, which are stoking long s ...
  • Police and Protesters Clash in Egypt
    Video from Russia Today: Via: Reuters: Police fought with thousands of Egyptians who defied a government ban Wednesday to protest against President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year-old rule, firing tear gas at the crowds and dragging away demonstrators. Protesters burnt tyres and hurled stones at police as g ...
  • Largest Soybean Sale Ever Between U.S. and China
    Via: Grainnet: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack issued Jan. 25 the following statement on the reported sale of 2.74 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans to China in the 2011-12 marketing year: “Today’s sale of 2.74 million tons of U.S. soybeans to China is the single largest daily soybean sale sinc ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Shut Down The Federal Reserve, Break Up The Big Ba ...
    How do we fix the economy?  That is a question that tens of millions of Americans are asking right now.  Republicans are harshly criticizing the empty economic proposals being put forward by Barack Obama and the Democrats, but the Republicans don't seem to have any real solutions ei ...
  • 20 Shocking New Economic Records That Were Set In ...
    2010 was quite a year, wasn't it?  2010 will be remembered for a lot of things, but for those living in the United States, one of the main things that last year will be remembered for is economic decline.  The number of foreclosure filings set a new record, the number of home reposs ...
  • House Prices – Up Or Down In 2011?
    How soon will it be before people finally start using the term "depression" to describe what has happened to the U.S. housing market?  It has been four and a half years since housing prices began to decline, and they are still falling.  In fact, U.S. housing prices have now fallen f ...
  • Empty Promises: 5 Reasons Why Barack Obama’s ...
    Barack Obama's State of the Union address sure sounded good, didn't it?  There were lots of solemn promises, lots of stuff about America's "bright future" and a line about how we are now facing this generation's "Sputnik moment" that will surely make headlines all over the globe.  B ...
  • 10 Things That Would Be Different If The Federal R ...
    The vast majority of Americans, including many of those who believe that they are "educated" about the Federal Reserve, do not really understand how the Federal Reserve really makes money for the international banking elite.  Many of those opposed to the Federal Reserve will point t ...

Desertification

  • Desertification And Global Warming (Google / SKY N ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://indepth.news.sky.com/InDepth/topic/Desertification_And_Global_Warming Desertification And Global Warming In Depth PICTURE GALLERY Labourers carrying tools walk to have lunch after planting grass in an attempt to prevent desertification on the fringe of ...
  • Environmental management project for the desert ar ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.bjreview.com.cn/exclusive/txt/2011-01/26/content_328358.htm Fighting Against Desertification By CHEN RAN The desert regions of north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region will see revitalization and renewal as the result of a new environmental ...
  • Shanghai’s Roots and Shoots : Million Tree Project ...
    Read at : Google Alert  desertification http://www.shanghaiexpat.com/article/one-day-shanghai-planting-trees-and-windswept-violin-solos-11721.html One Day in Shanghai: Planting Trees and Windswept Violin Solos Author by Leah OâHearn in Stories The One Day on Earth archive is up on the net and our d ...
  • The resource called water, its parallels with foss ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://oklahomasolarinstallation.com/water-efficiency-the-resource-matrix-part-2-of-4-waters-role-in-global-warming-4/   Water Efficiency – The Resource Matrix Part 2 of 4 – Waterâs Role in Global Warming Last week, we introduced you to the Resource Matrix, w ...
  • The Biochar Solution (Book) – (Google / Coal ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://coalgeology.com/the-biochar-solution-carbon-farming-and-climate-change-sustainable-agriculture/10936/ The Biochar Solution: Carbon Farming and Climate Change (Sustainable Agriculture) Written by Editor Manufacturer: New Society Publishers List Price: $ ...

The Paper Trail

  • Bailout Watchdog Probes Suspected TARP Fraud at 64 ...
    The government watchdog charged with overseeing the $700 billion bank bailout fund is claiming broad success in cracking down on individual and institutions that tried to misuse the money.
  • Treasury Dept. Scolded for Rejecting Anti-Fraud Me ...
    A senior House Republican scolded the Treasury Department on Wednesday for rejecting recommendations from a government watchdog to prevent fraud in a new $30 billion bank capital program to boost lending to small businesses.
  • A Civil War of Words
    President Obama's call for civility may fall on deaf ears as Republicans and Democrats debate contentious issues like health care and climate change.
  • 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 ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Stelmach resignation leaves old-school media in th ...
    By Brian Brennan Can the mainstream print media successfully reinvent itself to become as relevant to news consumers in the digital age as it used to be back in the days when readers looked to their morning newspapers for authoritative coverage of the previous day's events? The question arise ...
  • 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 ...

Worldnews

  • Celebrity Birthdays - January 27, 2011
    Happy Birthday to: Actor Alan Cumming (1965) English rapper Tricky (1968) Faith No More singer Mike Patton (1968)...
  • Li Na Beats Wozniacki to Face Clijsters at Op ...
    MELBOURNE - Kim Clijsters advanced to the Australian Open final with a comfortable win over Vera Zvonareva and will play for the title against Li Na, who saved a match point en route to becoming the first Chinese player to reach a Grand Slam championship final. Li rallied to win the first of th ...
  • Australian Open 2011: Li Na to face Kim Clijs ...
    • Li Na is first Chinese player in a grand slam singles final • Kim Clijsters aims for her first Australian Open title Li Na celebrates her victory over Caroline Wozniacki at the Australian Open. Photograph: Petar Kujundzic/Reuters Li Na, to the overwhelming relief of maybe a billion people in ...
  • Mass. Speaker DeLeo to address biotech indust ...
    BOSTON-Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo is planning to address biotechnology executives about how changes in...
  • AP survey: Outlook for 2011 economy is bright ...
    WASHINGTON-Employers will hire more workers this year, and the economy will grow faster than envisioned three months ago, according to an Associated Press survey that found growing optimism among leading economists. But unemployment will stay chronically high -- nearly 9 percent by year's end, ...

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Common Dreams

  • Protests in Cairo Forgotten by Obama
    by Laura FlandersIn the State of the Union speech, Barack Obama did get applause for saying that the US stands with the people of Tunisia. Now, he didn't mention the two decades of support the US had given the dictatorship.read more
  • Gaza War Report Was Stalled by Palestinian Authori ...
    by Seumas Milne and Ian BlackPalestinian Authority leaders co-operated with US officials in a bid to postpone the reference of the Goldstone report into war crimes in Gaza to the UN security council, leaked papers reveal. The PA, who have denied they made the decision under US pressure, later revers ...
  • 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
  • Shell, Slammed Over Human Rights and Environmental ...
    Environmental groups have accused oil giant Shell of abusing human rights and the environment in the Niger Delta at a Dutch parliamentary hearing.Amnesty International and environmental NGOs have accused the Anglo-Dutch company of failing to clean up oil spills and continuing the hazardous practice ...
  • Plans for Nato Withdrawal Could Be Hit by Base Con ...
    by Ben Farmer in IslamabadArnold Fields, the government inspector who oversees American contracts in the country, said hundreds of new Afghan outposts, barracks and garrisons are "seriously behind schedule, making it doubtful that the construction efforts would keep pace with recruitment and trainin ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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Energy Collective

  • How the U.S. Can Win the Global Electric Vehicle R ...
    Yesterday, the President spoke of�spurring American innovation, breaking our dependence on oil, and winning the global race for jobs and industries. He reiterated the call for the U.S. to develop an industry capable of providing us with 1 million electric vehicles (EVs) by 2015. Winning the future i ...
  • The focus turns to the 2020s
    At an industry meeting in London this week the CEO of the UK Climate Change Committee outlined their thinking on forward targets for the UK. This follows their release in December last year of The Fourth Carbon Budget report, which specifically covers the period 2023-2027, but also includes a clear ...
  • Bloom Energy’s "Electrons" Service an Interesting ...
    I’ve been thinking a bit about Bloom Energy’s announcement last week that it wants to sell
  • State of the Union: 80 Percent Renewables by 2035? ...
    Source: AE2011, US EIA
  • Environmental Benefits of Natural Gas Being Questi ...
    There is a lengthy and thought provoking article and comment thread at ProPublica titled Climate Benefits of Natural Gas May Be Overstated. It provides more data and support for a theory that I have been sharing for quite some time - much of what you hear and read about the benefits of increasing ou ...

Green House - USA Today

  • Study: Mercury pollution concentrated in four stat ...
    Power plants in just four states—Texas, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia—are responsible for more than 35% of all mercury pollution from U.S. power plants, an environmental group reports Wednesday.
  • The most polluting cities? Study finds surprises
    Cities are often blamed for exacerbating climate change, but their emissions of greenhouse gases vary widely in some surprising ways, reports a new study of more than 100 cities in 33 countries.
  • Obama nixes oil subsidies, touts biofuels and elec ...
    President Obama called Tuesday for an end to federal subsidies for oil companies, proposing instead to use the money to promote biofuels and electric vehicles.
  • How to buy lead-safe, reusable shopping bags?
    What's a shopper to do? As more U.S. cities ban or tax disposable grocery bags, more Americans are turning to reusable ones. Yet tests, including new ones reported this week in USA TODAY, show some of these bags contain lead. Environmental advocates say consumers don't need to panic.
  • America's wind industry reports slower 2010 growth
    America's wind industry, which had been growing rapidly, lost some of its wind last year. Its growth in 2010 was barely half that of its record in 2009, although it ended the year on a strong note.

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

  • The State of the Union: Not a Time for Saccharin a ...
    By Kevin Zeese Members of the corporate political duopoly switched seats and sat next to each other making it even harder to tell the corporate welfare party from the crony capitalist party. Sadly, the spokespersons for both failed to learn the lessons of history and as a result the American econo ...
  • America's Dire State of the Union
    By Stephen Lendman Like last year, Obama's address was empty rhetoric, signaling business as usual with a twist - more than ever embracing reactionary extremism, promising harder than ever hard times on Main Street. Last year, an earlier article discussed his first State of the Union address ...
  • Mass Street Protests in Egypt
    by Stephen Lendman An August 2009 Council on Foreign Relations Steven Cook report headlined, "Political Instability in Egypt," saying: Facing possible instability, (m)ost analysts believe that the current Egyptian regime will muddle through its myriad challenges and endure indefinitely (with ...
  • The Palestine Papers and Us
    Gilad Atzmon I have a rule -- I never intervene in Palestinian political matters. I never comment on Palestinian internal debate. I do not think that I have the right to do so : I am an ex-Israeli and an ex-Jew, and I write about Israel, Jewish Identity politics, and Zionism. For me, the leaked ...
  • Why are you so negative? (and other FAQ)
    Mickey Z. FAQ: Why are you attacking me for my way of life? MZ: That’s easy: Our way of life is really a "way of death" and is directly responsible for the current global crises I write about. We also might want to agree to save the word "attack" for, say, those living under the US taxpayer-fu ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Economist writer on the three top reasons why inco ...
    MIT Economist Daron Acemoglu writes in The Economist that there are three main reasons to care about worsening income inequality: Harmful effects on personal well-being, limited equality of opportunity, and more concentrated political power. On the third point, he writes: "Economic power tends to be ...
  • A challenge to BC’s leadership candidates: dare to ...
    On our Policy Note blog, Seth Klein suggests a new approach for BC leadership hopefuls: "As a number of fundamental crises become more apparent (ecological and economic, not to mention the democratic deficit), the public is looking for bold ideas and bold leadership. Sadly, too many political str ...
  • CEO pay under review
    A week after we released our review of CEO pay in Canada, the Ontario Securities Commission says it's time to review how executives get paid. Read the story here.
  • Federal budget takes center stage
    It appears as though this year's federal budget will be particularly important in the parliamentary calendar as it may be what brings down the government. �Ignatieff appears to be planning to vote against Flaherty's budget unless there are some radical changes. �This will also increase the relevance ...
  • Mortgage financing reform needed to avoid another ...
    Changes to U.S. and Canadian mortgage finance polices are necessary in order to prevent a future financial crisis, say two prominent economists. In What Can Be Learned from the Financial Crisis in the U.S. and the Much Milder Crisis in Canada? Doug Peters and Arthur Donner make several recommendatio ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Thanks Seattle!
    Bill introduced to legalize, regulate, tax marijuana | Seattle Times As a 64-year-old woman with a grandchild, state Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson, D-Seattle, says she’s not the type of person you would normally associate with marijuana. And yet Dickerson has again introduced legislation that would legali ...
  • Who is Faith Doe?
    WWH- The year was 1983. The song was, Every Breathe You Take by the Police and there is irony here, as a little girl was strangled to death and the police have yet to identify her. So who is this little girl and why was she never reported missing? She has been named Faith Doe. In [...]
  • The Collapse of Capitalism, Part One: Planned Obso ...
    WWH-I have always believed that Capitalism is doomed to fail. Well, actually, I guess there are a few who think it’s a great success and the cat’s meow and all that, but if anyone thinks it is meant to be a system that satisfies people’s basic needs, it is a miserable failure. That’s OK. Capitalism ...
  • Don’t Bring Your Camera To Illinois
    When cameras are outlawed, only outlaws (and the police) will have cameras. Chicago Police: Tape Us, Get Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison | Daily Tech Class 1 Felony of recording a conversation is just below the prison time you’d spend for murder. We’ve often written on the disconnect between current ...
  • I’ll Take Minnesota Hotdish for $400, Alex&# ...
    The Salmonella Index: The Best and Worst States for Food Poisoning | The Atlantic As last year’s Salmonella outbreak and the unethical practices of egg mogul Jack DeCoster proved, our food supply is not always as safe as expected. One problem is that numerous systems exist for reporting foodborne il ...

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

  • The roots of Fox News
    You're forgiven if you don't immediately recognize the video below, but when it originally aired 23 years ago this week, it touched off a national firestorm -- one that, in hindsight, is useful in understanding the rise of the Fox News Channel.
  • Guns cost more lives than they save
    Some years ago, I reported on a self-defense/gun-safety class mainly for women at Rice University. There had been several forcible rapes on the Houston campus. Students had armed themselves. The instructor was an Army ROTC officer. A Vietnam combat veteran, he found the prospect of undergraduates ...
  • Abortion does not harm mental health, study says
    Having an abortion does not increase the risk of mental health problems, but having a baby does, one of the largest studies to compare the aftermath of both decisions suggests.
  • Marty Peretz's blog discontinued (sort of)
    For those still wondering about the fate of Muslim-hating erstwhile New Republic owner and editor-in-chief Martin Peretz, they've finally made an official announcement: He is now the "editor-in-chief emeritus." Marty never actually edited the magazine -- though he hired and fired editors -- but h ...
  • "There is no plan"
    The United States is at risk of blowing over $11 billion on building facilities for the Afghan military because of waste and poor planning, according to the special inspector general for Afghan reconstruction.�

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

  • Fix this Mideast fiasco
    With every passing week Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s handling of the dispute with the United Arab Emirates over landing rights at Canadian airports grows harder to justify.
  • A unified transit system makes sense
    Making the province responsible for the TTC might be the best way to build a unified transit system throughout the Greater Toronto Area
  • Keep ads out of high schools
    Toronto’s public school board is considering a plan to put television screens in the hallways of 74 high schools. For the average teenager, spending more and more hours every day in front of a TV, computer, smartphone, iPod, or videogame screen, th ...
  • Shun Ben Ali’s clan
    Canada must not become a safe haven for deposed despots and their relatives fleeing justice. That includes people with links to Tunisia’s ousted dictator, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. He a ...
  • Keep ads outof high schools
    Toronto’s public school board is considering a plan to put television screens in the hallways of 74 high schools. For the average teenager, spending more and more hours every day in front of a TV, computer, smartphone, iPod, or videogame screen, th ...

Energy Collective

  • How the U.S. Can Win the Global Electric Vehicle R ...
    Yesterday, the President spoke of�spurring American innovation, breaking our dependence on oil, and winning the global race for jobs and industries. He reiterated the call for the U.S. to develop an industry capable of providing us with 1 million electric vehicles (EVs) by 2015. Winning the future i ...
  • The focus turns to the 2020s
    At an industry meeting in London this week the CEO of the UK Climate Change Committee outlined their thinking on forward targets for the UK. This follows their release in December last year of The Fourth Carbon Budget report, which specifically covers the period 2023-2027, but also includes a clear ...
  • Bloom Energy’s "Electrons" Service an Interesting ...
    I’ve been thinking a bit about Bloom Energy’s announcement last week that it wants to sell
  • State of the Union: 80 Percent Renewables by 2035? ...
    Source: AE2011, US EIA
  • Environmental Benefits of Natural Gas Being Questi ...
    There is a lengthy and thought provoking article and comment thread at ProPublica titled Climate Benefits of Natural Gas May Be Overstated. It provides more data and support for a theory that I have been sharing for quite some time - much of what you hear and read about the benefits of increasing ou ...

EU Times

  • World’s largest volcano in Yellowstone National Pa ...
    The super-volcano beneath Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming has been rising at a record rate since 2004. It would explode with a force a thousand times more powerful than the Mount St Helens eruption in 1980. Spewing lava far into the sky, a cloud of plant-killing ash would fan out and dump a lay ...
  • In bipartisan tones, Obama challenges GOP
    It sounded conciliatory, even friendly, brimming with the outward trappings of a shift to the center, but President Barack Obama’s 2011 State of the Union speech was, at its core, an unmistakably partisan challenge to congressional Republicans. Obama, facing a chamber full of Democrats and Republica ...
  • Russia “perplexed” by US publishing ex-Chechen mil ...
    Russia’s Foreign Ministry has said that it has been “at least bewildered” by the release of a book by a former Chechen militant Ilyas Akhmadov in the US. The Russian Foreign Ministry has said that Ilyas Akhmadov “passing himself off as the Foreign Minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria is in f ...
  • Ex-Minnesota governor sues over body scans, pat-do ...
    Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura sued the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration on Monday, alleging full-body scans and pat-downs at airport checkpoints violate his right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. Ventura is asking a federal judge ...
  • Arizona to pass 2012 eligibility law
    Obama will have to produce birth certificate to run again. It could be a game-changer. A plan in Arizona to require presidential candidates to prove their eligibility to occupy the Oval Office is approaching critical mass, even though it has just been introduced. The proposal from state Rep. Judy Bu ...

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

  • Send obama back to kenya in 2012!
    Making Obama a One Term President By Richard Baehr We are slightly more than 21 months away from the 2012 presidential election. The election in 2012 will be not a simple referendum on Barack Obama (for which an approval score is a proxy), but a choice between two candidates
  • Japan’s low credit rating
    Can’t say I’m that surprised that Japan’s credit rating has worsened. Standard & Poor’s say that their ratings on Japan’s long term government debt have been lowered from to ‘AA-’ from ‘AA’. Well now, this is a nation that makes Greece look prudent, with an overall debt to GDP ratio approaching 200 ...
  • A Newscorp takeover of BSkyB will not significantl ...
    Some media commentators have expressed deep concern at Rupert Murdoch’s Newscorp’s bid to take over BSkyB, citing the possible effects on competition in the industry and the potential for greater media ‘bundling’.  In light of these worries, Charlie Beckett finds that the Secretary of State for Cul ...
  • Sony PSP2 Unveiled : Next Generation Portable (NGP ...
    In Tokyo today, Mr Kaz Hirai has just unveiled the successor to their first handheld device, the PlayStation Portable. Codenamed “NGP” (Next Generation Portable) the device is set for release “this holiday season”
  • Richard Keys and the ancient art of the apology
    Andy Gray and Richard Keys have now both left Sky Sports As someone who has been doing ridiculous things on a regrettably regular basis since an early age I am probably better acquainted than most with the etiquette of apology. If Richard Key’s ill advised outpouring on Talksport is anything to jud ...

Groklaw

  • 2011 Call for Nominations for 2011 Richard D. Jenk ...
    The 4th Richard D. Jenks Memorial Prize for Excellence in Software Engineering for Computer Algebra will be awarded at ISSAC/SNC 2011 at the FCRC http://www.acm.org/fcrc/ in San Jose on June 9, 2011. The Prize will consist of a plaque and a cash award of $1,000. Nominations, including self nominati ...
  • Google will hire at least 6,000 workers 'across th ...
    Extending a surge that began last year and that economists said could be a positive sign for the Bay Area's economy, Google says 2011 will be its largest hiring year ever, plans that would mean the Internet giant will add more than 6,000 new workers this year. - Mike Swift, San Jose Mercury News
  • Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie win Japan Prize
    "I did it as a backlash against the bad operating systems of the day," said Thompson, 67. "We were just trying to get something better to get our own work done." Thompson, now living in San Jose and doing work as a "distinguished engineer" for Mountain View's Google Inc., and Ritchie, 69, now a com ...
  • Microsoft's iPad battle plan for partners
    Microsoft has come under a constant barrage of criticism for its failure to launch a real competitor to Apple's iPad. When the iPad initially seemed like a consumer-only-focused device, that was one thing. But now that Apple's slate is gaining real, measurable traction with enterprises, Microsoft -- ...
  • Aduc files class action against Microsoft
    Aduc, an Italian Consumers association, has served on Microsoft Italia (the local branch of Microsoft Corp) a class action complaining that the company consistently refuses to reimburse users the price of ubiquitous windows licenses, bundled with OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturers) computers. I a ...

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

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Politics in the Zeros

  • Woman plans to marry corporation to honor corporat ...
    One year ago on January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court of the United States reaffirmed that corporations have the same constitutional rights as people (Citizens United v FEC). In commemoration of that decision there will commence a national search for the ideal corporate groom for a mere mortal, Ms. Sa ...
  • U.S. gives $650 million loan aid for biofuels from ...
    These loan guarantees are specifically for cellulosic ethanol not made from corn, and that’s a good thing. Instead the ethanol will be made from leftovers like woody biomass, animal fat, crop processing leftovers, and trash. Thus, they are turning a liability into an asset. This is way better than d ...
  • Utah lawmakers propose M1911 as official state gun
    I can already hear anti-gun proponents howling about how gun-crazy the West is. But the M1911 was invented by a Utahn, and is not only of historical interest, it’s still in use. Republican Rep. Carl Wimmer said the state should have the gun as one of its state symbols to honor John Browning, a Utah ...
  • Template for every awful Facebook discussion you’v ...
    Whoa, too true!
  • Where liberals go to feel good. Conferences!
    A fine rant by Chris Hedges The moral outrage of the liberal class, a specialty of MSNBC, groups such as Progressives for Obama and MoveOn.org, is built around the absurd language of personal narrative-as if Barack Obama ever wanted to or could defy the interests of Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase or ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Arab world waking from 40-year sleep?
    The Arab world has been in a state of increasing ossification ever since I started following its affairs closely in 1970. That was the year that King Hussein beat back the Palestinian-radical challenge to his regime in Jordan, and that Egypt's President Jamal Abdel-Nasser died. Also, the year that ...
  • 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. ...

First Truths

  • Corporate Welfare Disguised As "Free Trade"
    Beware of "free trade agreements," statist pacts that fix the rules for Big Business and cheat consumers. My commentary here.
  • Organized Crime Fights Organized Crime?
    At the Center for a Stateless Society, I write: The rudiment of anarchism's canon "no masters," its starting point, is an unambiguous attention to basic and widely-accepted moral values, not an involved, scholarly rationale but an affirmation of principles that almost all of us adhere to anyway. In ...
  • The Revolving-Door Polity of Corporatism
    In a C4SS commentary regarding the appointment of Jeffrey Immelt to the Economic Recovery Advisory Board, I write: And regardless of the sound bites they direct at the public, politicians and CEOs understand full well that the myth is just that, a handy piece of rhetoric intended to obfuscate what's ...
  • 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 ...

Media Co-Op

  • British Columbians Gather at Legislature - Pledge ...
    A cross section of British Columbians gathered at the legislature at noon today to launch a new campaign to “End BC coal mining and export by 2015”. Taking action, dozens of church leaders, retired professors, scientists, parents and grandparents symbolically spilled coal at the foot of the legislat ...
  • Montrealers Protest in Solidarity with Uprising in ...
    Mostafa Henaway discusses movements in Middle East, reactions in the diaspora, and Canada's role About 50 demonstrators gathered today in a festive show of support for hundreds of thousands of Egyptians marching in the streets of many cities, ...
  • "Darrell Dexter, will you listen to us now?”
    Students Concerned Government Not Listening to Stakeholders HALIFAX – This morning Halifax-area students participated in a flash mob outside of One Government Place while former Bank of Montreal Executive Vice-President Tim O’Neill presented h ...
  • Murky Waters
    Contentious mink farm development given green light. YARMOUTH COUNTY, NS-- A proposed mink ranch development on Sloans Lake appears to be moving forward, much to the consternation of area residents who had been under the impression that the de ...
  • Building the Future of Salmon Farming...In 90 Seco ...
    On January 14, 2011, Agrimarine Holdings Inc. completed primary construction and installation of the world's first marine closed-containment salmon farm (it has several fresh ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • A fairy tale as grim as Grimm could ever be (a fab ...
    David Seaton's News LinksOnce upon a time in a far off and pleasant land, during the reign of King George the Idiot, there lived a young man who dreamed of fame and greatness. He yearned so long and so deeply, that the Good Fairy was moved by his constant pleading and praying and appeared before him ...
  • The "Sputnik Moment": One nation with paranoia for ...
    � David Seaton's News Links I remember once reading an Indian guru, who said that if the water buffalo had a god, it would probably look like a very large water buffalo. He believed that there is only one god, formless and all pervading, but that he/she/it responds to intense worship by taking on t ...
  • 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 ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

  • NIH panel links Vitamin A in sunscreen to skin tum ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982 leeann@ewg.org A key independent science advisory panel has voted to confirm federal researchers' conclusion that retinyl palmitate, a form of vitamin A found in two-fifths of U.S. sunscreens,... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Obama Speech Misfired on Ethanol, Ag Policy
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Washington, D.C. – President Barak Obama’s call to “stop subsidizing yesterday’s energy” in his State of the Union speech last night was welcome, but the President missed an opportunity to focus... [[ This is a content summary only ...
  • 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 ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • These Foods and Nutritional Deficiencies Can Make ...
    The U.S. is still reeling from another tragedy -- the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, and the murder of several civilians during the attempt. Many are asking what the cause might have been -- whether it was pervasive, over-the-top violent rhetoric in the culture, or si ...
  • New Study Shows Lack of this Vitamin Linked to Str ...
    Low levels of vitamin D, the essential nutrient obtained from exposure to sunlight, doubles the risk of stroke in Caucasians, according to a new report. Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States. The research team says its results fail to explain why African Americans, who are ...
  • The Quickest, Easiest Way to Help Detoxify Your Bo ...
    By Dr. Mercola Unfortunately your body is under constant daily assault by toxic substances, a great many of which are hard or impossible to completely avoid. Besides the industries that pump or dump known toxins into your air, food and water, there are also synthetic chemicals in most products ...
  • Light Therapy Promising for Treating Major Depress ...
    A clinical trial suggests that bright light therapy could help treat symptoms of major depression in older adults. The trial looked at close to 90 adults aged 60 or over who had been diagnosed with clinical depression. About half of the patients were randomly assigned to bright light therapy for th ...
  • Dog Sledjacking
    Sometimes, the dog wins.

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Victory for Kalahari Bushmen as court grants right ...
    The ruling means that the Bushmen can finally use a vital well. © Survival In a momentous decision, Botswanaâs Court of Appeal today quashed a ruling that denied the Kalahari Bushmen access to water on their ancestral lands. With support from Survival, the Bushmen appealed a 2010 High Court j ...
  • Bushman arrested while helping tribe’s lawyer visi ...
    The Bushmen's lawyer Gordon Bennett also represented them during their 2006 High Court victory. © Survival The high profile Bushman activist Jumanda Gakelebone was arrested and held overnight while travelling through his homeland in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve over the weekend. The ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Editorial: Police payment system is unfair to Mont ...
    You can't blame the councils of towns and small cities across Quebec for lining up to disband their local police forces and have their municipalities policed by the Surete du Quebec.
  • Police payment system is unfair to Montrealers
    Many of them have seen their industrial bases, and thus their tax revenue, dwindle. Bringing in the SQ makes for a welcome saving. As David Johnston of The Gazette explained yesterday, while they must pay 100 per cent of the cost of having their own police force, if they switch to the SQ the ...
  • Mayor Tremblay shoots the messenger -again
    As is his wont when caught out by an embarrassing revelation, Gerald Tremblay blazed away at the messenger when La Presse revealed this week that the mayor and senior acolytes had expunged a vital detail from a report to city council about a major sale of a landmark public property to a priv ...
  • Why such variance in snow-clearing costs?
    Montreal taxpayers won't be happy to learn they pay twice as much as Laval residents to have snow cleared from their streets, or that they pay $6,000 more per kilometre than Quebec City residents. But they can take some comfort in the fact they're not paying the $38,520 per kilometre that We ...
  • Mayor Tremblay shoots the messenger -again
    Instead of conceding the obvious -that he had acted in error -he accused the paper of being in league with a political opponent and stooping to sensationalism to boost circulation, in much the same way as he lashed The Gazette for exposing his administration's $350-million water-meter boondo ...

Food World Order

  • 12/31 binge & purge: prices, crisis & new year pre ...
    global food prices in 2011 face perilous rise* inflation may become a bigger worry in 2011 for food companies* food stamps to be spread out in 2011: michigan to change its food stamp distribution policy in 2011* food safety news naughty list 2010* with food safety bill, US govt will spend n ...
  • fda official: "just eat a goddamn vegetable"
    from onion news network: During the Daily Briefing, Tucker Hope reports that the FDA is urging Americans to put something green in their dumb mouths.
  • 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 ...

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

  • 2nd Annual Leeds Exopolitics Expo - 7/8 AUG 2010
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  • Retiring State Representative to New Hampshire dec ...
    Henry W. McElroy, Jr, retiring State Representative to New Hampshire, declared this week that former U.S. President Eisenhower was briefed about the presence of extraterrestrial intelligent beings on Earth. McElroy also said that the document he viewed while at the State Legislature made referrence ...
  • News Release: Hollie Demands Justice
    Hollie and Anne Greig have recently been on holiday with friends, during which time their knowledgeable supporters advised Anne to serve Shropshire County Council with a ‘Notice of Claim of Right’ under Common Law. This was done on May 20th and has since caused Shropshire Social Services ’serious i ...
  • The Elephant In the Room Needs A Good Slap. Boy ...
    Today another 19 people lie dead, murdered by an outrageous military massacre on neutral vessels of an humanitarian flotilla in international waters; yet more unarmed innocent victims of yet more Israeli aggression. These brave people had joined others from no less than 50 countries to try to bring ...
  • The Exopolitical Revolution continues at the Unive ...
    The european leg of the global exopolitics initiative comes to the Yorkshire city of Leeds on August 7th 2010.

The Economic Collapse

  • Shut Down The Federal Reserve, Break Up The Big Ba ...
    How do we fix the economy?  That is a question that tens of millions of Americans are asking right now.  Republicans are harshly criticizing the empty economic proposals being put forward by Barack Obama and the Democrats, but the Republicans don't seem to have any real solutions ei ...
  • 20 Shocking New Economic Records That Were Set In ...
    2010 was quite a year, wasn't it?  2010 will be remembered for a lot of things, but for those living in the United States, one of the main things that last year will be remembered for is economic decline.  The number of foreclosure filings set a new record, the number of home reposs ...
  • House Prices – Up Or Down In 2011?
    How soon will it be before people finally start using the term "depression" to describe what has happened to the U.S. housing market?  It has been four and a half years since housing prices began to decline, and they are still falling.  In fact, U.S. housing prices have now fallen f ...
  • Empty Promises: 5 Reasons Why Barack Obama’s ...
    Barack Obama's State of the Union address sure sounded good, didn't it?  There were lots of solemn promises, lots of stuff about America's "bright future" and a line about how we are now facing this generation's "Sputnik moment" that will surely make headlines all over the globe.  B ...
  • 10 Things That Would Be Different If The Federal R ...
    The vast majority of Americans, including many of those who believe that they are "educated" about the Federal Reserve, do not really understand how the Federal Reserve really makes money for the international banking elite.  Many of those opposed to the Federal Reserve will point t ...

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

  • BP spill commissioners face congressional committe ...
    When the BP spill commissioners testify today before House and Senate committees about their investigation into what caused the deadly Deepwater Horizon disaster and their recommendations for regulatory reform, they'll be speaking to politicians whose campaigns the oil and gas industry has invested ...
  • BP oil spill commission taking case for industry r ...
    The leaders of President Obama's national commission on the BP oil spill will be in Washington tomorrow testifying about their findings to key House and Senate committees -- and one of those leaders was in North Carolina yesterday delivering a preview of their message. William K. Reilly, ...
  • 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 ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    UK Unveils Counterterrorism Reforms The British government released its review of the countryâs counterterrorism laws Wednesday, with recommended changes to the detention and surveillance system for terrorism suspects known as âcontrol orders.â The 2005 system applies to suspects, eight British … Co ...
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Ghailani Receives Life Sentence for Role in Embassy Bombings Ahmed Ghailani, the first former Guantanamo detainee to be tried in U.S. civilian court, was given a life sentence Tuesday for his role in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in East … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Suicide Bombing at Moscow Airport Kills at Least 35 A suicide bomber, and perhaps two, struck Moscowâs Domodedovo Airport just after 4:30pm local time, killing at least 35 and wounding 180 people, according to reports. The NYT reports that â[t]he … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Bodhi Linux Review - An Incredibly Good, Lightweig ...
    Bodhi Linux is NOT yet another Ubuntu based Linux distro. Bodhi Linux is among a very few number of Ubuntu based distros that run Enlightenment window manager instead of the popular alternatives like GNOME or KDE. I had never used anything other than GNOME, KDE and XFCE desktops before and I have to ...
  • Android Overtakes iPhone in U.S. for the First Tim ...
    In line with the predictions by Gartner some months ago, open source Android OS is indeed winning the war against Apple's iOS in the great fight for U.S. smartphone market dominance. For the first time ever in U.S. smartphone history, more people are using Google's Android OS powered smartphones tha ...
  • How About Something Similar to Ubuntu Control Cent ...
    Ubuntu Control Center is a nice simple application to sort things out easily and�intuitively in Ubuntu. It is originally inspired from Mandriva Control Center and�aims to centralize and organize the main configuration tools available in Ubuntu. Ubuntu Control Center Ubuntu Control Center aims ...
  • LibreOffice 3.3 Released, Download Candidates Avai ...
    LibreOffice 3.3 stable is released finally with enormous amount of bug fixes and other major improvements. OpenOffice has already become memory and LibreOffice is the new name for revolution. As Mark Shuttleworth himself stated�before, LibreOffice is already a default in ongoing Ubuntu Natty release ...
  • Human Love, Probe - Two New Short Films Using Blen ...
    Here comes even more movies and short films made using Blender for visual effects. For starters, Blender is a free and open source 3D content creation application. If you have seen the brilliant collection of Blender made videos we have featured here before, you probably don't need any more lecturin ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Global “elite” use twitter and youtube ...
    You can now follow the meeting in Davos, Switzerland, of the political and financial elite that is responsible for the current economic meltdown of the USA and Europe on twitter and youtube. Risk management and risk networks seem to be a key theme this year – perhaps as the elite wonder how to esca ...
  • German economist wars that eurozone could implode ...
    German economist Hans Werner Sinn has said that introducing more economic coordination in the euorzone wouldn’t lead to stability but to a transfer union by the back door. http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/oekonom-hans-werner-sinn-dann-gaebe-es-einen-grossen-knall-1.1050774-2 He said in an inter ...
  • SINN FEIN CORRECTLY SAYS IRELAND NEEDS NO ENFORCED ...
    Sinn Fein Deputy Doherty: No ‘grubby little deal’ as Dail voted today to pass financial bill. Published Date: 25 January 2011 By Carolyn Farrar @donegaldemocrat.com —– “I think it’s absolutely scandalous what’s happening here,” Deputy Doherty said. He said the opposition parties should have “the go ...
  • Committee told Ireland should seek to renegotiate ...
     The Irish Times – Wednesday, January 26, 2011 COLM KEENA, Public Affairs Correspondent AN OIREACHTAS committee has been told Ireland should seek to renegotiate the interest rate it is paying on its emergency funding from Europe. Economics professor Karl Whelan told the Oireachtas Committee on Euro ...
  • Irish keep flame of freedom alive under imminent E ...
    Tom O Donovan and lots of musicians and dancers celebrated Ireland’s hard won sovereignty on Friday 21-1 2010 in The Mansion House and on the steps of theGPO in O Connell St. TOm has also set up a fund to help Irish victims of the corrupt “elite.” “Every one who values freedom is welcome,This is [.. ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • One More Litmus Test for the Strong, Silent Types
    By Les Visible I admire some people, not a lot of people to be sure, but some people have done their job with modesty, courage and consistency. One of those people is Webster Tarpley, who just wrote a fantastic article on Wiki-Sneaks. I communicated with Webster in the long ago and he showed himself ...
  • Abortion Stillbirth Events from Gardasil Far Excee ...
    According to a National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC – http://nvic.org) MedAlerts blog entry written in November 2010, the incidents of abortion and still birth events from the HPV4 vaccine, Gardasil supersedes the same event from all other vaccinations. The research and post was written by Stev ...
  • Cosmic rays contribute 40% to global warming: stud ...
    Priscilla Jebaraj A key belief of climate science theology — that a reduction in carbon emissions will take care of the bulk of global warming — has been questioned in a scientific paper released by the Environment Ministry on Monday. Physicist and the former ISRO chairman, U.R. Rao, has calculated ...
  • Yes, Virginia, A Climate Cover-Up
    Junk Science: Democrats in Virginia are trying to stop their attorney general from probing climate fraud carried out by university researchers at taxpayer expense. Are they afraid of finding the inconvenient truth? It’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up, as the saying goes. In the case of former Univ ...
  • In the Kingdom of the Hungry Ghosts
    By Les Visible The fact that it’s getting tough for so many people, about whom the media is blind or indifferent, only proves out how really sleazy that industry has become. The level of corruption throughout the web of temporal control is near total. There appears to be no bottom. The limbo bar is ...

Veterans Today

  • Dr. Ashraf Ezzat:The Downfall of Mubarak of Egypt
    What is happening now in Egypt is historic by all means and all parties involved should acknowledge that and deal with it as such.
  • Gilad Atzmon: Jews against the King
    Along the years we have heard about ‘Jews against Zionism’, ‘Jews against Racism’ and ‘Jews against anti Semitism’. In the last few days we have learned about a new Jewish collective. They are called ‘Jews Against the King.’ Apparently some Jews in Hollywood are not happy with the great cinematic su ...
  • DON’T GET MAD, PALESTINIANS. GET EVEN.
    Bypass Israel and its twisted backers and deal direct with those responsible, the United Nations. By Stuart Littlewood / STAFF WRITER See this embarrassment as your big chance – a God-sent opportunity to sweep away the shameful Palestinian Authority. Take the garbage out and bin it. Then make a fres ...
  • Gilad Atzmon: The Palestine Papers and Us
    I have a rule — I never intervene in Palestinian political matters. I never comment on Palestinian internal debate. I do not think that I have the right to do so : I am an ex-Israeli and an ex-Jew, and I write about Israel, Jewish Identity politics, and Zionism. For me, the leaked Palestinian Papers ...
  • GORDON DUFF: CHINA AND JOBS, SAGINAW, MICHIGAN (V ...
    3600 TOP WAGE MICHIGAN JOBS… By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor The plant featured in the video below was General Motors, then Delphi Automotive.  Years ago, I tried to pick it up for the state’s Department of Corrections as a training facility and prison.  The whining, “yellow peril” is ju ...

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

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Sponsored Facebook Posts Turn Your Updates Into Ad ...
    For the none of you who really, really wanted to have your Facebook updates automatically converted into ads for which you receive no money -- and which you can't opt out of -- the site has answered your prayers! Facebook is rolling out a new program that allows advertisers to use your status upda ...
  • Get Unlimited Data Back On AT&T iPhone If You Down ...
    If you're an iPhone user on a limited AT&T data plan but had an unlimited one in the past, AT&T will let you switch back for free, the AP reports. AT&T refused to comment on the loophole that they're not promoting at all, but the AP was able to confirm it with some users. The limited plans went in ...
  • Train Station Closes Bathroom To Public, Pisses Of ...
    A scrawled note scotch-taped to the New Rochelle train station in New York tells passengers that they better hold it. The city has decided that's it too expensive to keep the bathrooms open. The recession takes its toll on your toilet. New Rochelle's City Manager Charles Strome said people vandali ...
  • Disneyland Scraps Reported Plan To Limit Roaming C ...
    Part of the appeal of taking your kids to Disneyland is the ambiance. You know -- the opportunity to watch their eyes light up when they gawk at an underpaid actor dressed up in a demeaning mascot suit amid your day of magical line-waiting. A PlanetMouse report said that Disney planned to limit ro ...
  • Travel Reporter Gets Burned On London Vacation Ren ...
    New York Times "Frugal Travel" reporter Seth Kugel thought he got a great deal when he rented a London flat for a pittance, only to have it disappear along with his wired deposit. Burned! A London Vacation Rental Scam [Frugal Traveler]

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Development Agencies Fail to Take On Corruption: W ...
    Canadian Press: Darling of Development World, Stung by Corruption Problems, Says Others in Worse Shape The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria – a $21.7 billion health fund backed by prominent celebrities – is responding to allegations that the fund has lost up to $34 million to ...
  • 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 ...

UK Progressive

  • And The Oscar Goes To… The World’s First Climate R ...
    by Theodora Filis, Contributing Editor The 2011 Academy Awards documentary film categories are filled with nominees who have focused on controversial environmental themes. Sun Come Up, by Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger, is an early favourite in the documentary short category. Having won or been l ...
  • In Houston, Rep. Giffords Could Receive Brain Inju ...
    by Marian Wang, ProPublica As Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords begins rehabilitative therapy in Houston after being shot in the head in Tucson earlier this month, she was transferred today to TIRR Memorial Hermann, a premier rehabilitation hospital renowned for its treatment of traumatic brain injur ...
  • Jon Huntsman: A Star Is Born
    by Brent Budowsky Put Jon Huntsman Jr., the U.S. ambassador to China and former governor of Utah, on the shortlist of potentially strong GOP candidates for president or vice president in 2012. It is time for the Great Mentioner in American politics to mention Huntsman as a major rising star with a g ...
  • President Obama, Two Dwarfs and One Crazy Lady (VI ...
    Last evening President Obama delivered his State of the Union Address. He was followed by Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin with the traditional, official Republican response, Rep. Ileana Ros Lehtinen of Florida with the Spanish language response and Minnesota’s Michele Bachmann gave a response ...
  • Tim Pawlenty, GOP Presidential Action Hero Candida ...
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NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Dellers is on fire today
    James Delingpole hits the spot. Rarely do you see someone reply to a petty put-down with such equanimity, clarity, and ultimately, a devastating trump. If Ben Goldacre thinks I’m a ***** what does that make him? The BBC spent 3 hours trying to catch Delingpole out so they could paint him a fool. Obv ...
  • On blogging
    With Jeff ID is sadly shutting down the Air Vent, it’s worth a comment on comments, on blogging, and on the strange lifestyle that this is. But given that it’s 11:22pm 12:35pm here, and my office is still full of packed boxes (thanks to the marvellous newly laid wooden floor) tonight is not the time ...
  • 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 ...

ReNew America

  • 'Hannity' focus group: Obama speech falls flat
    (NewsMax) - A focus group assembled on Sean Hannity's show by pollster Frank Luntz was not impressed with President Obama's State of the Union address, with most scoffing at his call for bipartisanship and few who voted for him saying they would again...
  • Bachmann hammers Obama in Tea Party response to SO ...
    (Right Network) - Rep. Michele Bachmann hammered Barack Obama in the Tea Party Response to the 2011 State of the Union Address. Bachmann challenged President Obama to remove job-killing regulations he has imposed on American business...
  • Where is the shift to the center?
    (Stanley Kurtz) - I never expected Obama to genuinely shift to the center, but I did expect a more significant feint in that direction than we've seen tonight. Sure, the president's used patriotic language to justify his spending plans. He's even made non-committal remarks about being willing to loo ...
  • Cash for education clunkers
    (Michelle Malkin) - "We're going to have to out-educate other countries," President Obama urged this week. How? By out-spending them, of course! It's the same old quack cure for America's fat and failing government-run schools monopoly. The one-trick ponies at the White House call their academic imp ...
  • Stand for life: remembering the past and looking f ...
    (Rep. Michele Bachmann) - "The last thing I saw was the tiny, perfectly formed backbone sucked into the tube, and then it was gone. And the uterus was empty. Totally empty." These disturbing words describe a live abortion as witnessed by former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson...

Truth Offering

  • Original Music Created for TruthOffering.com by Ch ...
    Talented singer and musician Chris Phenom has created two tracks for TruthOffering.com, and we want to share them with you. Chris's tracks feature some amazing lyrics that relate directly to what we're trying to get at here at TruthOffering.com: the Truth! Listen to what he has to say, and check out ...
  • Levi's: All-American or Neo-Communist
    It seems that everywhere I go recently, I see these massive Levi's billboards along the side of the road. At first, I thought nothing of them. After all, they're just billboards, right? Plus Levi's is an all-American company, right? Visually, these ads are quite striking; mostly black and white, and ...
  • Politicians and the Voting Public: A Toxic Relatio ...
    At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect the Uni ...
  • Education v. Conditioning: Wundt, Rockefeller and ...
    John D. Rockefeller, Sr. / Wilhelm WundtSince reading "the deliberate dumbing down of america" by Charlotte Iserbyt, I've been trying to find other people out there who have also noticed the ruining of education in the United States. To be honest, it's hard to find information on this subject out th ...
  • TruthOffering's Matt Gordon on LA Talk Live's "The ...
    Have a listen to Matt Gordon from TruthOffering.com chatting with Hip-hop connoisseur, D-Bracks, on LA Talk Live. Topics range from economics and politics to international banksters and chemtrails. Be sure to drop a comment and let us know what you think of Matt's perspective:

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

  • BP spill commissioners face congressional committe ...
    When the BP spill commissioners testify today before House and Senate committees about their investigation into what caused the deadly Deepwater Horizon disaster and their recommendations for regulatory reform, they'll be speaking to politicians whose campaigns the oil and gas industry has invested ...
  • BP oil spill commission taking case for industry r ...
    The leaders of President Obama's national commission on the BP oil spill will be in Washington tomorrow testifying about their findings to key House and Senate committees -- and one of those leaders was in North Carolina yesterday delivering a preview of their message. William K. Reilly, ...
  • 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 ...

One News Page

  • Sam Worthington splits from girlfriend
  • 2010 highlights global warming trend:UN
  • Holocaust Historical Data Goes Digital
    Israel's Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, is teaming up with Google to make its photographs and documents interactive and searchable on the Internet. Viewers can contribute to the project by adding their own stories, comments and documents about family members who appear in the online archives.
  • Hubble detects oldest galaxy
    by Janie Snow - One of the earliest galaxies formed after the Big Bang has been detected by the Hubble Space Telescope. The image, obtained using Hubble's recently installed Wide Field Camera, is interpreted by scientists to show a galaxy 13 billion years old. The galaxy was already ...
  • Palestinian distrust of Iran revealed in leaked pa ...
    London, Jan. 27 (ANI): Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas tried to persuade a Palestinian businessman to contribute millions of dollars to a radio station for the Iranian opposition after the country's disputed presidential elections in 2009, according to leaked documents.

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

  • Blogging in Moderation: A Lesson for Life
    January is BlogHer's Month of Little Steps to Health & Fitness, and we want you to share your favorite easy health tip! Click here to see how to play along. And check out all the tips so far in the Month of Little Steps to Health & Fitness series. **************************************************** ...
  • BlogHer Network Member News, Jan 26: Matt Logelin' ...
    Matt Logelin of matt, liz and madeline (pictured below) has a book, Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss & Love that is due out this April. It's available for pre-order now. Missy Berggren from The Marketing Mama was named a Top Ten Twin Cities Titan in Social Media. This annual award recogniz ...
  • Tangled Stories: Losing a Parent
    My husband is a very private man. I am not. His 93-year-old mother went into the hospital a week ago Monday, and she is gravely ill. As my father passed away just this past March, at a similar advanced age, of a very similar condition, after spending much time at the same hospital, seeing some of ...
  • How to Cure Gravlax
    I love smoked and cured fish, and have since I was a little girl. Lox and bagels and cream cheese on a weekend morning were one of my favorite treats, and I always fought for the biggest share of smoked salmon when it was available.� I don't remember when I first learned about gravlax, the Swedish v ...
  • Mother Convicted a Felony for Sending Kids to a Be ...
    Kelley Williams-Bolar lives in subsidized public housing with her two daughters in Akron, Ohio. Her father lives in the nearby suburb of Copley. In Akron, the schools are barely scraping by in meeting basic state standards. In Copley, the schools receive an “excellent with distinction” rating fro ...

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 ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Natural gas vs. Coal: A new wrinkle
    Well site during active drilling to the Marcelllus Shale formation in Upshur County, West Virginia, in 2008. Photo copyright West Virginia Surface Owners Rights Organization. We’ve talked many times here on Coal Tattoo about the prospects for coal as it tries to compete with the rise of natural gas ...
  • Mine cited during TV show filming
    Here’s a new report from Vicki Smith over at The Associated Press: MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Federal inspectors cited a Canadian coal company for 19 health and safety violations during the nearly three months that a Spike TV crew was filming a reality show at its southern West Virginia mine, but shoo ...
  • What should President Obama say about the coal ind ...
    The pundit class of our country is, of course, in a frenzy about tonight’s State of the Union address, with everyone offering views about what President Obama will say and what he should say. David Roberts over at Grist, for example, wants President Obama to say: … I plan to vigorously defend the E ...
  • 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 ...

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
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    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
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    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

  • Thanks Seattle!
    Bill introduced to legalize, regulate, tax marijuana | Seattle Times As a 64-year-old woman with a grandchild, state Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson, D-Seattle, says she’s not the type of person you would normally associate with marijuana. And yet Dickerson has again introduced legislation that would legali ...
  • Who is Faith Doe?
    WWH- The year was 1983. The song was, Every Breathe You Take by the Police and there is irony here, as a little girl was strangled to death and the police have yet to identify her. So who is this little girl and why was she never reported missing? She has been named Faith Doe. In [...]
  • The Collapse of Capitalism, Part One: Planned Obso ...
    WWH-I have always believed that Capitalism is doomed to fail. Well, actually, I guess there are a few who think it’s a great success and the cat’s meow and all that, but if anyone thinks it is meant to be a system that satisfies people’s basic needs, it is a miserable failure. That’s OK. Capitalism ...
  • Don’t Bring Your Camera To Illinois
    When cameras are outlawed, only outlaws (and the police) will have cameras. Chicago Police: Tape Us, Get Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison | Daily Tech Class 1 Felony of recording a conversation is just below the prison time you’d spend for murder. We’ve often written on the disconnect between current ...
  • I’ll Take Minnesota Hotdish for $400, Alex&# ...
    The Salmonella Index: The Best and Worst States for Food Poisoning | The Atlantic As last year’s Salmonella outbreak and the unethical practices of egg mogul Jack DeCoster proved, our food supply is not always as safe as expected. One problem is that numerous systems exist for reporting foodborne il ...

reference frame

  • What experiment would disprove string theory?
    You may disprove string theory by many observations that will almost certain not occur, for example: By detecting Lorentz violation at high energies: string theory predicts that the Lorentz symmetry is exact at any energy scale; recent experiments by the Fermi satellite and others have showed ...
  • Hawaii governor: no Obama long-form birth certific ...
    World Net Daily and Yahoo Associated Content report that a former 2008 Hawaii election clerk, Tim Adams, has sworn that his supervisors told him that no long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate exists in Hawaii. He's not the only one. According to Examiner, Newser, and The Daily Cal ...
  • CzechGlobe began their AGW criminal activity
    Just two months ago, I warned that the EU econazis were buying 150 Czech crackpots and traitors for 25 million euros. The goal of the hired guns would be to spread fear and misinformation about the climate. Huge EU funds plan to corrupt Czech science and fabricate Czech alarmists As Viernes ...
  • BBC Horizon: President of Royal Society defends AG ...
    Phil Gibbs has told me about a new BBC Horizon program and also warned me that it's a cup of strong coffee. BBC Horizon: Science Under Attack, one hour in six parts Mr Paul Nurse - sorry, we abolished monarchy in 1918 so let me kindly avoid all the aristocratic rubbish in the ti ...
  • Edward Witten: 70 minutes of string theory
    If you have a spare hour and you want to see Edward Witten sitting in an IAS armchair and give you a lecture of modern physics from the 19th century all the way to string theory, continue to read this text. You will also learn some Italian along the way. Most importantly, "string theory" i ...

No Frakking Consensus

  • Is a Meteorologist a Drought Expert?
    Why does the media keep interviewing a meteorologist about droughts & floods instead of those with genuine expertise?
  • The Silent Treatment
    Should AGW proponents acknowledge critics? Or should they avert their eyes and block their ears?
  • Is the IPCC a Scrutiny-Free Zone?
    A senior author thinks the IPCC should take a stand by declaring Freedom of Information requests a form of harassment.
  • The Sad State of the Debate
    According to some people, only a "climatologist" can be a credible scientific voice in the climate debate. Why do we spend so much time trying to disqualify people - rather than addressing their ideas?
  • The Uses and Abuses of a Nobel Prize
    A news story tells us we should believe a report because a "Nobel Prize-winning climate scientist" is associated with it. But the Nobel turns out to be the same Peace Prize awarded to Al Gore - and the report's findings are highly improbable.
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