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Saturday, January 29, 2011

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • EGYPT: Army Loyalty to Mubarak Will be Crucial
    Columns of tanks and armoured personnel carriers moved in to take up position vacated by weary riot police on Friday night as Egypt's embattled president attempted to restore order to his nation's capital.
  • EGYPT-U.S.: Washington Struggles to Catch Up
    With tens of thousands of demonstrators still milling around the streets of Cairo and other Egyptian cities Friday night, the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama was struggling to come up with a policy response to an uprising that may be on the verge of ousting Washington's most ...
  • U.S.: Spate of Trade Deals Move Toward Passage
    On the heels of U.S. President Barack Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday in which he focused squarely on resuscitating the economy, pressure is mounting in the nation's capital to move forward with free trade agreements (FTAs) whose passage would promote exports and create jobs.
  • EGYPT: Mubarak to Dissolve Govt in Wake of Mass Pr ...
    After a day in which thousands of protesters called for his ouster and clashed with security forces, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak announced on state television after midnight Friday that he was dismantling the current government immediately and will announce a replacement cabinet on ...
  • US: Lethal Drug Shortage Creates Ethical Quagmire
    As the domestic and overseas sources that U.S. states relied upon for sodium thiopental (ST), a key drug used in lethal injections, have stopped producing or exporting the drug, state governments are scrambling to find another way to carry out planned executions.

Scoop - NZ

  • UK climate-proofing plans unveiled
    Roads built to the same standards as the scorching south of France; fish moved from the overheated Lake District to cooler waters in Scotland; lighthouses threatened by rising seas. From measures in use already to seemingly far-fetched scenarios for the future, these are some of the findings in t ...
  • Hone: They want me gone - Northland Advocate
    Cracks in Maori Party unity are widening with leaders deciding to start disciplinary action against MP Hone Harawira.He has been called to an urgent meeting of the Maori Party's disciplinary and disputes committee on Tuesday. Fellow MP Te Ururoa Flavell, who laid a formal complaint backed by co-lead ...
  • Australasian satellite radar ?
    Satellite radar can do what our weather satellites, equipped with only optical cameras, cannot - penetrate cloud, smoke and haze and take images day and night to track how quickly water is moving. For researchers it's also a vital tool to benchmark and verify flood-prediction models. The benefits ...
  • Bollard warns of risks to NZ recovery
    "If the market were to form the view that the Government deficit was increasingly structural and hard to correct, and if the New Zealand Government were forced to consolidate faster, this could generate a contractionary effect on consumption, which would be difficult to counter with monetary policy. ...
  • It never happens, but it did happen | Inside Story
    Responding to this would mean an overhaul of the insurance industry, a revolution in the real estate culture (what price waterfront?) and new approaches to urban planning, housing design and ownership. Social infrastructure and community networks would become a primary investment, with a stronger fo ...

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Picturing Alzheimer’s
    The numbers tell a startling story.   According to a 2009 study by the Alzheimer Society of Canada, 500,000 Canadians are living with Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia. Of those, more than 71,000 are under 65, and approximately 50,000 are under 60. And 72 percent are women. An estimated 1.3 ...
  • Quitting time
    Despite the best intentions of a 34-year-old National Non-Smoking Week, which starts on Jan. 16, one of the most disheartening things for anyone trying to quit smoking is the extremely high likelihood that his or her efforts will end in failure. “Even with proper treatment, around 70 to 80 percent o ...
  • Discoveries of the deep
    Oceans cover more than 70 percent of the planet. Hidden beneath them is an entire world we know very little about, a world of undersea mountain ranges and ocean basins that play host to hundreds of thousands of underwater species. In the late 1990s, marine scientists expressed their concern with thi ...
  • Shakin' all over
    At the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) in Kingston, Ont., Richard Bathurst is a mover and a shaker. Literally. Over the past 20 years, Bathurst, a civil engineering professor who is cross-appointed to Queen’s University, has become an internationally recognized authority on earthquake-resista ...
  • The year in review
    Welcome to 2011! Before we launch into a new year of covering cutting-edge Canadian research, we’re going to rewind and look back at some of the success stories we featured on InnovationCanada.ca in 2010.  Some recurring themes in Canadian research this year were: biodiversity, aboriginal culture, a ...

Signs of the times

  • Canyonitis: Seeing evidence of ancient Egypt in th ...
    Is there, within the Grand Canyon, an enigmatic system of tunnels that is evidence of an ancient Egyptian voyage to America? Is it all bogus? Or is the truth most likely somewhere in between? On April 5, 1909, a front page story in the Arizona Gazette reported on an archaeological expedition in ...
  • Coming at you in 3D: Legendary filmmaker Werner He ...
    Covered in ancient dots and lines, it's thought to be where man made his first attempts to write. Since its (re)discovery in 1994, the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in southern France has offered scientists a veritable treasure trove of perfectly preserved paintings. Alongside these are and evidence of ...
  • Thousands in Jordan protest, demand PM step down
    In 3rd day of protests, opposition supporters take to streets in Amman to express anger at rising prices, inflation, unemployment. Amman, Jordan - Thousands of Jordanian opposition supporters took to the streets Friday in the country's capital demanding the prime minister step down and venting t ...
  • Republican senator favors cutting US aid to Israel
    Wasington - Tea party-backed Republican Sen. Rand Paul favors cutting U.S. aid to Israel as part of a deficit-driven effort to slash government spending by $500 billion this year, drawing criticism from Democrats and Republicans who argue the U.S. must be unwavering in its support for the longtime M ...
  • Kuwait ruler gifts money and food coupons to all h ...
    Kuwait's ruler is giving 1,000 dinar ($3,559) grants and free food coupons for every citizen of his nation. The state news agency KUNA reported Monday that Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah has decided to hand out the gifts for all the 1 million Kuwaiti citizens. According to the AP, the decision cove ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Perspectives . . .
    Very DEMOTIVATIONAL, very good.
  • Precedents?
    If the judge rules in favour of Lukacs, does this mean that any old prof can challenge a PhD they aren't associated with? A judge in Winnipeg has reserved decision in the case of a math professor who is challenging the granting of a PhD to a student who suffers from exam anxiety. The case pits th ...
  • Melissa's moment . . .
    WHILE EGYPT IS IN TURMOIL, the American dream trudges on. According to these reports from The Smoking Gun in the Home of the Brave and the Land of the Free:"Woman Utters Line Never Previously Recorded In A Police Report"That's Melissa, over on the right. She doesn't take "No" for an answer, apparent ...
  • Obama's moment
    What Obama does here will mark his legacy as an international president. Egypt has just gone web-dark. The ruler, a US backed dictator in power for 30 years, is facing mass and popular uprising. He has dissolved his government but so far shows no sign of accepting his fate and stepping down. He did ...
  • If you aren't angry, you haven't been paying atten ...
    Ian Welsh lays it out just about right. And David Lindorff further discusses the monsters in our midst. The Skipper has been criticized by a few under the Godwin's Law argument, but I agree with him and with Welsh that we too often fall into the trap of reasonableness, that by going along to get alo ...

Media Matters for America

  • "Taking Liberties," Indeed: Fox Presents Parental ...
    Fox News has debuted a new segment called "Taking Liberties" in which it purports to investigate "challenges to the individual's constitutional rights." In its first installment, Fox took the side of a right-wing activist group that is representing a mother in a divorce dispute, repeating its false ...
  • WSJ Falsely Claims Cap And Trade Is An "E ...
    In her Wall Street Journal column, Kimberly Strassel claimed "the public now understands that cap and trade is an economy killer." In fact, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said the cap and trade bill passed by the House in 2009 would have had a "modest" impact on GDP and "only a small ...
  • Right-Wing Civil Rights Commission Trumps Up Repor ...
    On January 27, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission released a report on the Department of Justice's investigation into the New Black Panther Party case. USCCR's report largely adopts the right-wing media's bogus allegations that President Obama's Justice Department engaged in racially charged corrupti ...
  • Varney Fearmongers About Social Security's Solven ...
    On Fox & Friends, Fox Business host Stuart Varney bizarrely claimed that the Social Security "trust fund is empty" because it "is full of IOUs from the Treasury" that won't be "IOUs any longer, by the year 2037." In fact, without any changes, Social Security will be fully funded through 2037, a ...
  • Who is Fox's Latest Global Warming Expert Brian Su ...
    As Media Matters�has previously�noted, recently�Fox & Friends�presented right-wing radio host Brian Sussman as a climate expert so that he could peddle misinformation to cast doubt on global warming. However, Sussman, a former radio show meteorologist, has a history of making inflammatory comments ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Bigotry As Comfort
    I like Michael's description of Beck as "rationalizing" bigotry. There's a video of Beck discussing the infamous Father Charles Coughlin and dismissing comparisons between him and the two. In the video, he notes that Coughlin viewed poverty and inequality as a chief issue, which differentiates hi ...
  • Paranoia Doesn't Mean They're Not Out To Get You
    As Michael Wolraich argues here, that some people no doubt enjoy feeling persecuted. Being downtrodden has the downside of all the trodding but the upside of moral superiority. It also allows the true believer to escape taking responsibility for personal failings or even to deal with the ugly ...
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  • Challenging Right-Wing Paranoia
    Thank you, Barry, for your great comment. I think your description of perplexity when facing someone arguing that unicorns lived on the on the ark eloquently captures that feelings that many of us have in response to some of the insane ideas circulating around the right wing. I applaud and encour ...
  • Persecution Politics: How Glenn Beck Rationalizes ...
    I'd like to thank Michael, Michael, and Michelle for their excellent articles. We actually had a fourth Michael slated for the book club, but he had to cancel due to personal circumstances. In the meantime, I'd like to use these two articles to further clarify the nature of what I've called perse ...

TruthOut

  • Rachel Maddow | Gay Activist Beaten to Death in Ug ...
    Uganda Murder of Gay Activist Draws International Attention Also See: Prominent Human Rights Activist Murdered in Uganda read more
  • FBI Serves 40 Warrants in Search of WikiLeaks "Hac ...
    Washington - The FBI said Thursday that it had served more than 40 search warrants throughout the United States as part of an investigation into computer attacks on websites of businesses that stopped providing services in December to WikiLeaks. read more
  • Bush, Obama, Wiki and the CIA
    At his first prime-time press conference in February 2009, President Barack Obama was asked for his view on a proposal by Sen. Patrick Leahy for a "truth and reconciliation" commission to investigate whether the predecessor Bush administration had committed crimes in its handling of suspected terror ...
  • Mohamed ElBaradei: "If Not Now, When?"
    If Western leaders, who have backed the dictator Mubarak for 30 years, cannot stand before the Egyptian people today and say unequivocally, "we support your right of national self-determination," when can they do it? That's the question that Egyptian democracy leader and Nobel laureate Mohamed ElBa ...
  • Guyanese President Leaves a Tattered Legacy
    Stagnation, violence, corruption, arch-sectarianism, and unfettered crime—this is the heritage that President Bharrat Jagdeo will bequeath to his country.read more

Planetsave

  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable). Dear Mo ...
  • The Challenger Disaster: What Happens When Politic ...
    (Cross-posted from Red Green and Blue) We’re seeing more and more science overruled by politics – in climate change, in clean energy, in high-speed rail. But that’s a formula for disaster – like the Challenger disaster that took the lives of seven astronauts and irretrievably damaged the American sp ...
  • Guerilla DIY Bike Lanes in Guadalajara, Mexico
    Want some bike lanes in your neighborhood? Put them in yourself. That’s what some people in Guadalajara, Mexico have done. Here’s more from TreeHugger: A group of citizens in Guadalajara, Mexico, was fed up with the inaction of the local authorities. Their city has a big traffic problem (350 new car ...
  • Link Found Between Ancient Climate Change and Mass ...
    New research led by researchers at the California Institute of Technology, Caltech, have discovered new details that support the idea that the mass extinction that took place approximately 450 million years ago, known as the Late Ordovician mass extinction, was linked to a cooling climate. During th ...
  • Humans Exited Africa Earlier Than Thought
    Artefacts that have recently been unearthed in the United Arab Emirates have cast doubt on the timeframe with which early humans exited Africa into the Arabian Peninsula, suggesting that humans could have arrived as early as 125,000 years ago, over two times that which had previously been supposed. ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Egypt tense after bloody protests - World
    Capital Cairo resembles warzone after night of protests, as President Mubarak's midnight address fails to douse anger. A tense calm has descended on the Egyptian capital, Cairo, following a night of deadly protests, but anger against Hosni Mubarak's 30-year-old presiden ...
  • How to balance a national budget - Featured
    The author recognizes that most nations, particularly the United States and Canada, are not forward thinking enough to understand that a country does not need to be in debt. The steps outlined below are not in order of priority – they are all equally necessary and should be undertaken simultaneo ...
  • Curfew fails to stop Egypt protests - World News
    Military deployed onto the streets of Cairo amid continued protests across the country. Protesters in the Egyptian cities of Cairo, Alexandria and Suez have defied a nighttime curfew and continued with demonstrations demanding an end to Hosni Mubarak's 30-year presidency. Speaking on national ...
  • Thousands protest in Jordan. Protesters gather acr ...
    Editor's Note: It's interesting to note that the western media (including Al Jazeera, emphisize economic problems as the source of the revolt in Egypt and Jordan. But few mention the widespread outrage of the people against these two governments for their complicity with the Israeli genocide being c ...
  • Mubarak dismisses government. International Protes ...
    Editor's Note: In the photo caption below, Al Jazeera (getting softer by the day) states, "Egyptian President says he will not allow protests to jeopardise reforms."  Who does he think he's fooling. He's being run out of the country - and in favor of revolution - not "reforms." He also states...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    2 a.m. in Cairo, and hundreds are still in the streets protesting against Mubarak. Al Jazeera is still the only news organization reporting from the ground, updating its liveblog. "3:06am: A senior Muslim Brotherhood official tells Al Jazeera that Mubarak must resign immediately and that it's time f ...
  • More Tales Of The Vampire Squid
    If you weren't convinced yet that Goldman Sachs drinks human blood and craps squid turds, here ya go. �Wanna bet how many indictments of major figures we'll see out of this one? �Clue: �About the same number we've seen so far in the "landmark" financial reform saga. Goldman Sachs Got Billions From A ...
  • Mohamed Elbaradei: If Not Now, When?
    The Nobel Prize recipient is being held in apparent house arrest in Cairo, but he continues to speak truth to power. From Truthout: If Western leaders, who have backed the dictator Mubarak for 30 years, cannot stand before the Egyptian people today and say unequivocally, "we support your right of na ...
  • This Is Simply Unacceptable
    From a link at Crooks & Liars. Maybe average humans just aren't meant to be fodder in forever wars. More U.S. Soldiers Killed Themselves Than Died in Combat in 2010 For the second year in a row, more American soldiers-both enlisted men and women and veterans-committed suicide than were killed in t ...
  • Events Moving Fast in Egypt - Follow Al Jazeera's ...
    Mubarak just appeared on state television to announce he has fired his cabinet. It won't work - the protesters want him gone. Forget CNN or even BBC - the source for this-minute updates on the revolution in Egypt is Al Jazeera's Live Blog direct from Cairo and Suez. Cairo is eight hours ahead of cen ...

Care 2

  • Tell Samsonite that You Don't Want their Bloody Su ...
    Samsonite has been airing ads in the U.S. that glorify bullfighting. League Against Cruel Sports has contacted them to no avail. Contact Samsonite and tell them to stop exploiting tortured animals!Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Philippine crocodiles released to fight extinction
    Nineteen of the world's most critically endangered crocodiles were released Thursday into the wild in the Philippines as part of efforts to save the species from extinction, conservationists said.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • House Republicans Consider Privatizing Medicare
    House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is testing support for his idea to replace Medicare with a fixed payment to buy a private medical plan from a menu of coverage optionsSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Aerial Hunt Targets Unimak Wolves Under Guise of P ...
    Alaska�s wolves are being lined up for death again by aerial hunting and gassed dens. The target in this latest round of wolf massacres is the wolves of Unimak Island. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Washington State Activists Push for Ban on Battery ...
    The initiative to ban battery cages in the state has been proposed by a group called Washingtonians for Humane Farms, and is backed by the Humane Society of the United States and Farm Sanctuary. Washington state's egg producers currently confine about 6Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Cairo Caged (& Open Thread)
    Editor’s Notes: Below, John has penned a terrifying section on Obama. I shudder. (The section includes references to Obama’s father.) – Bronwyn At 8:12 p.m. ET, I heard this on NBC News: The Cairo protestors are picking up the tear gas canisters and noting the insignia, “Made in the U.S.A.” – Bronwy ...
  • And We Thought Carter Sucked! Obama’s Iran Moment
    This is bad and it is going to get worse. I am not just referring to the apparent collapse of the Mubarak regime in Egypt. Barack Obama and his not ready for prime time National Security team have done the equivalent of fumbling the ball in the end zone. Hell, we didn’t have to wait [...]
  • So It Continues – Racism And Sexism In 2012!
    All in one post! Whee!! Ahem. Yes, once again, racism is being touted as the cause for the landslide shift in the 2010 election, according to Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA). Good grief. Yes, Rep. Moran made this ludicrous charge in an interview with an Arab TV station (honestly, I am having a hard time writi ...
  • Burns [Update]
    4 p.m. ET Update: Shepherd Smith on Fox News just said, “Jennifer Griffin, our longtime Middle East correspondent, now our Pentagon correspondent, who worked in that region for years and years and years and whose husband is a correspondent in that region as well for the New York Times, has just mess ...
  • WTF SOTU — Line Item Opine #1
    All I heard was a few minutes of the speech and it confused and angered me so that I wanted to vent my frustration by tearing it apart line by line. Not very togethery, I know. Here we go: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans: Tonight I wan ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Many Faces of Phone Booths Around the World
    Cellphones are a major part of our lives now, but will you miss the sight of the lonely phone booth when it's gone for good? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Most Beautiful Places to Visit in Israel
    Take a look at Israel from the inside and witness some of the most spectacular landscapes in the world. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Where Does Drinking Water Get Its Taste?
    Does your water have a horrible taste? Then it's time to contact your local water department. Find out why. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Kelburn Castle: The Medieval Scottish Home Painted ...
    A colorful and imaginative way to bring the graffiti culture to a heritage castle in Scotland. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Pompeii: Buried Sin City of the Roman Empire
    The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD completely destroyed Pompeii. The ruins people were preserved – turned to rock – but who knew what an erotic place Pompeii was? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the articl ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Arctic Waters Warmer Than in 2,000 Years
    The findings are another indication that recent global warming is atypical in the context of historical climate fluctuations, a paleoclimatologist says.
  • New York Floats Rules for Cleaner Heating Oil
    Proposed regulations would phase out the most polluting oils, No. 6 and No. 4, yielding health and environmental benefits.
  • Oil Equipment Foes Stand Down, for Now
    After months of wrangling, opponents of planned shipments of massive oil equipment through rural Idaho are resigned to the fact that at least some of those shipments will go forward. But they say the fight is not over.
  • Brazilian Dam Clears Hurdle
    The dam will produce electricity for about 23 million people in major cities but flood roughly 200 square miles of land in the Amazon, displacing indigenous peoples.
  • Pledge on Sharks Proved Hollow, Report Says
    A new analysis shows that a decade after a United Nations declaration on protecting sharks was approved, only 13 of the top 20 shark-catching nations have developed plans of action.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

  • Survival, How Hard Can It Be?
    People who work pay taxes, which fund the government.  Sounds simple doesn’t it.  Cut spending to reduce government debt.  On the face of it, this sounds simple too.  Add into the mix that the government is the largest employer in the country and even the dimmest of us can begin to see that it is [. ...
  • Podcast: Martin Luther King family civil trial: US ...
    source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com Dr. James Fetzer interviewed me on his radio show and podcast, The Real Deal, in discussion of the Martin King, Jr. family civil trial that found the US government guilty for Dr. King’s assassination. The article explaining the evidence (with video) is copied below. ...
  • ‘Social justice hedge fund managers’ and ‘social j ...
    â”For the truly humanist educator and the authentic revolutionary, the object of action is the reality to be transformed by them together with other people — not other men and women themselves. The oppressors are the ones who act upon the people to indoctrinate them and adjust them to a reality whic ...
  • How much more are you going to take…
    Spending cuts, jobs, taxes, health care, education, infrastructure, banking, housing, energy, defense, and climate are all very important right now and all inter-related.  But they are just noise.  They are a giant smokescreen to hide the GRAND THEFT that has been and is going on right now. Illegal ...
  • False Media: Deconstructing Corporate Media
    http://www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news/2011/01/27/false-media-desconstructing-the-corporate-media-in-america If you cannot Listen Live you can always Listen on Archive by Clicking the Link Above Please join us this episode (Wednesday January 26th at 8:00 PM EST) as we pay particular attention ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

Institute for Policy Studies

  • A Deficit of Ideas
    In the SOTU, President Obama missed out on the opportunity to advocate for a progressive vision of the United States and to take on a real leadership role.
  • Interview with John Esposito
    In a new special focus on Islamophobia, Foreign Policy In Focus interviews prolific author and professor John Esposito about prevailing political and media myths about Muslims and the Muslim world.
  • SOTU: Smoked Salmon on Wonder Bread
    Obama's second State of the Union address sandwiched crummy policies between slices of inspiration.
  • A Short Response to the Tragedy in Tucson
    Phyllis Bennis and Karen Dolan offer a few words about the tragic shooting of nineteen people in Tucson, AZ that left six dead and United States Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition.
  • SOTU: Glossing over the Pervasive Suffering Caused ...
    The freeze on the funding of discretionary domestic programs would choke off vital assistance to a shrinking middle class and growing numbers of poor and low-income families.

Equality Trust

  • The Wrong Cure - alternatives to the cuts
    The False Economy website is an excellent and still-developing resource exploring the alternatives to cuts. False Economy includes: a discussion of why the cuts are not progressive details of campaign actions a comprehensive further reading list ... and this short film [youtube:ynUCYohPsb ...
  • Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
    A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details...
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    Don't forget to sign up to our email newsletter to receive quarterly updates about our work and next week's response from Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett to questions about the Spirit Level analysis.
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    Please visit our new Media section for the latest details.
  • VAT rise would hit the poorest
    Bill Wilson's VAT motion to the Scottish Parliament reads as follows: That the Parliament notes the warning issued by Save the Children in Scotland that raising VAT to 20% could mean a £31 a week bill for the poorest families in Scotland and that the poorest 10% of the population currently spend ...

PDA AMERICA

  • Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money O ...
    Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.â–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
  • IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
    Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. IntroductionsâDr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer MovementâKatie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchio, Healthcare ...
  • PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
    Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
  • War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
    WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Shahid ...
  • An American Suicide Terrorist
    William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...

Marler Blog

  • Marler Clark Donates $25,000 to IAFP for Public He ...
    The International Association for Food Protection turns 100 years old this year.� Of all the organizations dealing with the safety of our food supply, we have really enjoyed our involvement with it over the last decade (although IAFP was a bit reluctant at first).� In 2010, we showcased Food Safety ...
  • Carpe Cheese - Bravo's Raw Milk Cheese Seized by t ...
    In late 2010, the CDC reported that thirty-eight persons infected with E. coli O157:H7 were reported from five states. The number of ill persons identified in each state was as follows: AZ (19), CA (3), CO (11), NM (3) and NV (2). There have been 15 reported hospitalizations, 1 case of hemolytic ure ...
  • Washington State Legislature may consider loosenin ...
    It seems a nearly everyday occurrence that the raw milk lobby tries to change some state law related to raw milk production and consumption. The new bill in Washington (a state that already allows for certified raw milk dairies to sell raw milk products on farm and retail) would be “AN ACT Relating ...
  • Taco Bell - "Thank you for suing us" - How come th ...
    A class action lawsuit was filed a few days against Taco Bell. The claim is that its claims that its products contain "seasoned ground beef" or "seasoned beef" are "false and misleading" because the beef is in fact "taco meat filling." According to Beth Weise of U.S.A. Today, "Taco beef filling" a ...
  • Minnesota Considers Expanding Raw Milk Sales
    In a state that is becoming famous for the “Raw Milk Poster Boy,” the Senate is considering a bill, H.F. 255 that would now permit direct farm-to-consumer sales of raw milk, including sales at farmers markets and at private homes. Current law allows sales of the product only at the farm, which produ ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 01.28.11
    GM on DOE loan withdrawal: "It says a lot about the financial health of the company." DC 2011: Ford Focus Electric wins Green Car Vision Award Follows in the tire treads of the Leaf and the Volt. Hertz rents f ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.27.11
    Obama: U.S. can reach 1 million plug-ins by 2015, will stop subsidizing "yesterday's energy" The State of the Union is alternatives. John McCain says ethanol is "a joke" In this, he's like Al Gore. Smart USA ...
  • GM to double Volt production to 120,000 units in 2 ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Plants/Manufacturing, Chevrolet, GM, Electric Was General Motors caught by surprise with the success of the Chevrolet Volt? According to two people "familiar with the matter" who spoke to Bloomberg, the number of Volts that GM wants to build in 2012 is now, wait for it ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.26.11
    Chevy Volt ads accidentally air on MTV's Skins; PTC calls reality show child porn That's what we call an "oops." Prediction: Tesla shares could hit $50 by 2014 All of a suddern, that T looks a bit like a bull. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.25.11
    GM thinking of doubling Chevy Volt production to 120,000 units in 2012 Will demand last until the feds $7,500 runs out? Henrik Fisker: Plug-in vehicle sales will take off like iPhones, flat-screen TVs Why electric cars will go from too-ex ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

  • No title
  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so fre ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and the ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces of ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion in ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigorous ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmine's ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of pro ...

Democracy Now!

  • Democracy on Trial: The Imprisonment of Indian Hum ...
    An Indian high court is hearing arguments to release the nationâs most famous political prisoner on bail and suspend his conviction. Last month, a trial court sentenced renowned physician and human rights activist Dr. Binayak Sen to rigorous life imprisonment on the basis of an archaic colonial-era ...
  • Sundance and the Art of Democracy
    PARK CITY, Utah—This small, alpine mountain town is transformed every winter during the Sundance Film Festival into a buzzing hive of the movie industry. While much of the attention is focused on the celebrities, Sundance has actually become a key intersection of art, film, politics and dissent. It ...
  • Part II...Fifty Years After Eisenhower’s Farewell ...
    This week marks the 50th anniversary of President Dwight D. Eisenhowerâs famous farewell speech to the nation, in which he warned against the rise of a "military-industrial complex." We speak with William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation, who trace ...
  • Tucson, Juarez and an Assault Weapons Ban
    The Glock 19 semiautomatic pistol that Jared Loughner is accused of using in his rampage in Tucson, Ariz., is, according to Glock’s website, “ideal for versatile use through reduced dimensions” and is “suitable for concealed carry.” The site continues, “Compact and subcompact Glock pistol model mag ...
  • Amy Goodman on CNN's John King USA
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman appears on CNN’s John King USA on Friday, January 14 at 7pm EST.

Digg Green

  • Researchers Call For Creation of Standardized ...
    Since the first binary code sent from Puerto Rico in 1974, our messages to aliens have been increasingly complicated and cryptic, possibly so much that extraterrestrials won’t get what we’re saying. A trio of astrophysicists from the US and France hope to change that by building an extraterrest ...
  • The Great Sphinx...and a Bird (pic)
  • Pigeons Use Right Nostril to Sniff Their Way ...
    Homing pigeons have the uncanny ability to always find their way home, and it turns out that its sense of smell may be the key. Researchers in Italy report in the "Journal of Experimental Biology" that pigeons develop their sense of direction through familiar odors. They found that when pigeons ...
  • Fox Tries To Debunk Global Warming, Fails Mis ...
    In an article titled, Five Reasons the Planet May Not Be Its Hottest Ever, FoxNews.com sought to debunk the fact that Earth has warmed over the past 30 years, as well as the notion that human activity has contributed to the warming. But Fox largely ignored climate science and botched basic fact ...
  • New Vu1 Light Bulb Technology Tries to Suppla ...
    Vu1's upstart boasts "Electron Stimulated Luminescence" (ESL) bulbs. But do they really compete?

Invisible Opportunity

  • We’ve Made our Bed and we’re Sleeping ...
    By Les Visible Alright people, if you can’t see it you’re not looking very closely. The dominoes are starting to tumble. All around the world, that unrest we have been expecting is rearing its revolutionary head. What will the outcome be? It’s going to be something different than the corpse feeding ...
  • No Private Central Banks (Michael Rivero)
  • Are We Witnessing the Start of a Global Revolution ...
    By Andrew Gavin Marshall An uprising in Tunisia led to the overthrow of the country’s 23-year long dictatorship of President Ben Ali. A new ‘transitional’ government was formed, but the protests continued demanding a totally new government without the relics of the previous tyranny. Protests in Alge ...
  • Video – Drug catapult discovered on border
  • The 25-Year ‘Foreclosure From Hell’ &# ...
    Patsy Campbell could tell you a thing or two about fighting foreclosure. She’s been fighting hers for 25 years. The 71-year-old retired insurance saleswoman has been living in her house, a two-story on a half acre in a tidy middle-class neighborhood here in central Florida, since 1978. The last time ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Official Release of “Zeitgeist: Moving Forward” by ...
    An important part of thinking about building a sustainable future for ourselves is considering that some of the premises and paradigms which brought us to this point need to be discarded. Maybe even most of them. But because we don’t talk about that, we can’t get out of the trap we find ourselves in ...
  • Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin’s lifeguard
    Ronald Reagan killed the Fairness Doctrine, thus spawning the one-sided, fear-mongering, bs-fest that is Rush Limbaugh and inevitably, FOX News. Now I think I see why Palin called him “America’s lifeguard” (referring, of course, to Sarah Palin’s America). Wondering what the Fairness Doctrine has to ...
  • The Republican triple threat
    Look who’s behind the people you support… What to read From Grist: We canât beat China at cleantech as long as GOP keeps kissing fossil-fuel ass From Ecopolitology: Koch BrothersâTilting at Clean Energy From The Inspired Economist: Koch Industries Exploits Unemployment Rate to Support Big Oil Agenda ...
  • Chefs Alice Waters and Dan Barber Back Bluefin Tun ...
    Two of the United Statesâ leading chefs have joined the Center for Biological Diversityâs (CBD) campaign to save bluefin tuna, one of the worldâs most imperiled fish. Alice Waters, owner of Chez Panisse, in Berkeley, Calif., and Dan Barber, owner of Blue Hill in Manhattan, have signed a pledge not t ...
  • The World According to Monsanto – Full Documentary
    The World According to Monsanto is an in-depth Documentary that looks at the domination of the agricultural industry. Related posts:Monsanto News Roundup – A Frankenfood Extravaganza of GMO News Articles Food Inc. – Full Documentary Stop Monsanto Again–GM Alfalfa Threatens to Contaminate Or ...

Inhabitat

  • ECO EWOK TREEHOUSES: Finca Bellavista Rainforest V ...
    If you been dreaming of picking up roots, living on the edge, or literally going out on a limb in terms of eco-lifestyle possibilities, then Finca Bellavista: A Sustainable Rainforest Community might be just the thing for you. Located on the base of an almost 6,000 foot primary rainforest mountain o ...
  • Iffy Table is a Modern Surface Made of Salvaged Ur ...
    The brainchild of head furniture designer Sean Gorham at Urban Tree Salvage, this minimalistic table is made from a reclaimed hardwood live edge slab measuring 48”w x 120”L x 4” thick. Called the Iffy Table, the piece was intended to better allow for proper seating without the invasive knee knocking ...
  • The Coffee Fellow Recycled Bean Bag Chair Is Perfe ...
    For anyone who’s felt a bit weary and wished they could take a dive into a giant cup of coffee, we’ve got the next best thing for those caffeine junkies. Designed by Johanna Hansson, the Coffee Fellow is a fun, recycled design that turns eight used coffee bags into a comfy bean bag chair. Keeping [. ...
  • NYU ITP Students Develop Bioremediating Aquaponics ...
    This past semester the Interactive Telecommunications Graduate Program at NYU’s Tisch school conducted its first ever course in living systems, which encouraged students to take on projects related to ecology, environmental data management, and, obviously, living systems. After six months of field t ...
  • Love Sign Made of Matches and Reclaimed Wood Sets ...
    With Valentine’s Day right around the bend, we thought it was the perfect time to feature artist Pei San Ng‘s amore-themed matchstick art. Ng arranged approximately 2,500 match sticks with red tips on a base of reclaimed art board and plywood to form the word “Love.” “Love on fire represents romance ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Scopes Weeps: Evolution Still Struggling in Public ...
    Despite 80 years of court battles ousting creationism from public classrooms, most public high school biology teachers are not strong advocates for evolution. While vocal advocates of intelligent design and similar non-scientific alternatives to evolution are a minority, more than half the teachers ...
  • That Ain’t No Jackal: New African Wolf Species Ide ...
    By Duncan Geere, Wired UK Conservationists in Egypt have discovered a new species of wolf, which shares DNA with Indian and Himalayan cousins. The “Egyptian jackal”, as it’s known, is not in fact a jackal at all, despite the visual similarities it bears to another local species, the golden jackal. ...
  • Hidden Fractals Suggest Answer to Ancient Math Pro ...
    Researchers have found a fractal pattern underlying everyday math. In the process, they’ve discovered a way to calculate partition numbers, a challenge that’s stymied mathematicians for centuries. Partition numbers track the different ways an integer can be divvied up. The number 3, for example, ha ...
  • Genetic History of Pneumonia-Causing Superbug Unra ...
    Sometimes natural selection gets a helping hand from humans. A new study tracing the genetic history of a nasty strain of pneumonia-causing bacteria shows that antibiotics and vaccines helped shape the microbe’s evolution. In a technical tour de force, an international team of researchers decip ...
  • Seahorse Shape Explained as Stealth-Attack Adaptat ...
    According to a new explanation of seahorse shape, those distinctive S-curve bodies let them reach further than straight-bodied ancestors. Compared to tube-shaped pipefish, their closest relatives, seahorses extend their snouts an extra 30 percent. The difference is only a few millimeters, but for an ...

PakAlert

  • Egypt: U.S. Puppet Regime On Verge of Collapse
    Since Tuesday, Egypt has witnessed widespread protests against poverty and corruption, and calls for democratic changes. Authorities suspended Internet and mobile phone service, according to news reports and mobile operators, in an attempt to block media coverage and communications between protester ...
  • Millions Of Chinese Stunned After Government Makes ...
    Hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens remain stunned after China’s official government television news station Xinhua made their unprecedented January 4th announcement that the American President, Barak Obama, was preparing to announce to the world the existence of extraterrestrial races currentl ...
  • 20 Warning Signs That Should Be Of Great Concern
    Do you see all of the warning signs that are flashing all around you? These days it seems like there is more bad economic news in a single week than there used to be in an entire month. 2011 is already shaping up to be a very dark year for the world economy. The price of food is shooting through ...
  • Video: Is This What The Whole America Is Going To ...
    What in the world is happening to America? The things that you are about to see in the videos posted in this article are so disturbing and so violent that it is hard to believe that it is actually Americans that are doing this to one another. Once upon a time, Americans generally conducted themsel ...
  • Top 5 Most Sinister Corporate Logos
    Big corporations pay millions in public relations to make customers associate their brand with a warm and fuzzy feeling. It is imperative that the soulless and inherently greedy nature of the corporation be hidden behind a family-friendly facade. But some companies just don’t give a hoot. They hate ...

Andy Worthington

  • Torture and Despair: The Psychic Roots of the Revo ...
    The roots of the popular uprising in Tunisia that toppled President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, after 23 years of dictatorship, which has now spread to Egypt like wildfire (click to enlarge photo), and has begun manifesting itself in other countries as well, are, of course, many and varied. Statistical ...
  • Prisoners’ Lawyers David Remes and Sabin Wil ...
    In the debate about the closure of Guantánamo, I have made my position abundantly clear, in, for example, my recent articles, Guantánamo Forever?, The Political Prisoners of Guantánamo and Obama’s Collapse: The Return of the Military Commissions. Lacking courage, President Obama has allowed a cynica ...
  • Compromise on Control Orders Is Inadequate; Failur ...
    On Wednesday, Theresa May, the Home Secretary, informed the House of Commons about the results of the government’s extensive counter-terrorism review,  overseen by Ken Macdonald QC (Lord Macdonald), whose report, and the government’s response, is available here. The review confirms that, on many gr ...
  • The Ricin Plot, and Why the Government’s Ter ...
    With fortunate timing, an event is taking place tonight at Amnesty International’s Human Rights Action Centre in London, which sheds light on an unjust, but largely unexplored corner of the government’s counter-terrorism policies that was not mentioned in the policy changes announced yesterday by Ho ...
  • First Major Student Protest of 2011 — in Lon ...
    Last November and December, three student days of action brought tens of thousands of students, schoolchldren, university staff, trade unionists and mobilized members of the general public onto the streets to demonstrate against the Tory-led coalition government’s horrendous plans to axe all funding ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • G! E! T! S! (bud) GETS! (bud) GETS! (bud) GETS!
    (Oh, was that too soon, Jets fans? Suck it up. Love, The Patriots Nation.) Forget football, it’s budget season again! And even though we paid all those pesky teachers last year, they want money again this year. So, of course, it will be controversial. There are several things in play this year. ...
  • A Real Public Option In Connecticut?
    And so it would seem.The other day for an open thread at ePluribus Media I commented on "the intended public option that should be Sustinet in Connecticut," and it would seem that is to be the case if the Sustinet Health Partnership Board of Directors get their way according to the report they hande ...
  • Dan Malloy scores first in Danbury
    Dan Malloy jumping off of the bench of the Danbury Whalers shortly after scoring the first goal in Whalers' history. [update] I have an interview from after the game at TK's. Let me say, in advance, that he was a bit reluctunt to give it since I am a political blogger... But as a hockey fan I prom ...
  • Still All That I Want
    Something that gets lost in the news about the unemployed is the fact that much of what used to be the backbone of this nation's economic prowess, the middle class, is now the working poor: Imagine That: Working Poor On The Rise After the Republicans crashed to economy in 2008 one thing became imm ...
  • Choosing a New Police Chief: No Local Ties, Please ...
    Do you want your town to look like The Dukes of Hazzard? Then again, maybe New Milford has been run by Boss Hogg and Roscoe P. Coltrane for a while. If that's not your idea of how a quaint New England town should be run, then help make sure the next police chief has no local ties - political or fa ...

SPL Center

  • Neo-Nazi Indicted for Bombs is Son of Movement Sta ...
    A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted Jeffrey Harbin, 28, of Apache Junction, Ariz., on three counts of possessing explosive devices. Harbin, who has ties to the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement (NSM) and was formerly a member of the neo-Nazi National Alliance, had in his possession 12 grenade ...
  • AIM’s Kincaid Takes Up Banner for Racist Organizat ...
    Itâs one thing to falsely accuse an organization of connections that havenât been verified. Itâs another thing altogether to claim that an organization isnât what it is. In the immediate wake of the Jan. 9 Tucson shooting â in which six people died and 13, including Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle G ...
  • Professor: Leaders Should Condemn Extremist Rhetor ...
    Editorâs Note: After publishing a professorâs article Friday about the effect of heated rhetoric on political violence, Hatewatch was contacted by another professor who similarly argued that the toxic political environment was a factor in the attempted assassination of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. ...
  • AFA’s Fischer Doubles Down on Anti-Gay Lies
    Like a desperate gambler who simply can’t make himself fold an obvious losing hand and instead increases his bet, Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association apparently has concluded that the best defense for being caught in lies is to further inflate them. The Southern Poverty Law Center last ...
  • The Last Word: Hatewatch’s 4th Annual Smackdown Aw ...
    A skirt-chasing neo-Nazi huffs about the sexual mores of âthe Jews.â An infamous Fox News personality predicts that one quarter of Americans will be starving come New Yearâs Day. A Southern heritage group initiates a festive commemoration of the war that left more Americans dead than any other. A wo ...

change: org.

  • Victory: Belmont U Gives in to Protests Over Remov ...
    Early in December, I wrote about the Belmont University women's soccer coach removed from her position after sharing the happy news with her players that she was expecting a baby — with the woman she loves. Coach Lisa Howe's players were furious and rallied in her defense, but the Belmont University ...
  • Massachusetts: The Latest Battleground in Factory ...
    Hot on the heels of the recent news that an impressive coalition of animal welfare, family farming, food safety, and environmental groups is pushing a ballot measure to ban battery cages in Washington, a bipartisan bill has been introduced in the Massachusetts state legislature, too. The bill, calle ...
  • Will Total Toothpaste Go Triclosan Free?
    Triclosan is rapidly becoming the BPA of the consumer product world -- troublesome and best avoided. Just as some companies have reformulated their cans and water bottles get rid of the endocrine-disrupting  BPA, others are beginning to phase out triclosan, a widely-used antimicrobial that has its o ...
  • Washington State Activists Push for Ban on Battery ...
    Sometimes I wish I lived in Seattle. That city makes a mean vegan sandwich, brews a terrific cup of coffee, and now Washington animal welfare activists are pushing to ban battery cages in the Evergreen State. I've also heard that all Seattleites are good-looking, but maybe that's just a rumor. The i ...
  • DADT-Discharged Dan Choi Shouldn't Have To Pay Bac ...
    Dan Choi, forever the activist, set off a firestorm late Wednesday night when he tweeted, "To the U.S. Marshals who came to my friend's NYC apartment looking for me: I don't couchsurf there anymore. I'm at 6 Traymore Cambridge MA," which was then followed by, "Well, I do owe the Army a few thousand ...

Common Dreams -News

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Tunisia Calls on Interpol to Arrest Ousted Preside ...
    by James MeikleTunisian authorities have asked for international arrest warrants to be issued for ousted president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and members of his family following his flight abroad this month.The country's justice minister, Lazhar Karoui Chebbi, who also revealed that 11,000 prisoners, a ...

Lifehacker

  • Learn to Code Epilogue: Best Practices and Additio ...
    Congratulations, you've learned the basics of programming! That's wonderful, but you'd better not go out into the world and write crappy code. Before we set you free, here are some best practices and good things to keep in mind. More�� ...
  • From the Tips Box: Multi-Page Articles, Google Chr ...
    Readers offer their best tips for reading articles on the web, enabling Google Instant in Chrome, and depositing checks with your iPhone. More��
  • This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]
    This week we sang the praises of SSD limitations, installed OS X on a thumb drive, made better use of every nook and cranny in our living space, and much more. Here's a quick look back. More��
  • Save Your Smartphone's Battery with Dark Wallpaper ...
    There's been a lot of talk recently about whether phones with AMOLED screens, like the Samsung Galaxy S, can actually save battery by using darker wallpapers and themes. Reader Steve performed a few tests to find out if this was actually true. ...
  • sharkZapper Controls Grooveshark from Chrome's Nav ...
    Chrome: Music streaming services like Grooveshark are awesome, but having to control your music through a browser tab is annoying, and can intrude on your work. Simple extension sharkZapper lets you control Grooveshark right from Chrome's navi ...

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Anonymous Obama author named
    US press pins authorship on John McCain aide Mark SalterIt was only published this week, but already the mystery may be over. The author of the anonymously-written novel O, billed as offering the inside story of the current US president, has been widely identified in the US press as Mark Salter, a f ...
  • A new way to safari in Kenya
    Interactive: New safari camp aims to benefit both the Masai tribesmen and the wildlifeKevin Rushby
  • LinkedIn plans to float this year
    Social networking site aimed at business professionals to lead wave of IPOs at companies such as Facebook and GrouponLinkedIn, the online service for business professionals, is to go public this year, the first social networking company to float on the New York stock exchange.The nine-year-old websi ...
  • Mubarak defiant in face of Egyptian protests
    �� At least 25 killed on day of violent protest �� Mubarak stays but dismisses government �� Demonstrators defy nationwide curfewTanks moved on to the streets of Cairo and Alexandria as protesters in Egypt defied a nationwide curfew ordered by President Hosni Mubarak in an effort to quell the fou ...
  • National Trust's bid to save woods
    Biggest change in land ownership for more than 80 years described as 'watershed moment in the history of the nation'The National Trust is poised to offer to take over or buy much of the state-owned English woodland which the government is planning to sell off.The initiative, says the trust's directo ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Arctic canary looking sicker than ever
    If the Arctic really is the "canary in the coal mine" for climate change impacts, as it's often been labelled, then it's a canary about which we know a little more following a spate of scientific papers coming out over the last week or so. And looking at what they say, as well as readings from inst ...
  • Forests: REDD or dead?
    There's pretty strong criticism this week for the UN-backed initiative on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) - criticism timed for the opening, in New York, of the UN Forum on Forests. Forest destruction is a major cause of biodiversity loss around the world Reduc ...
  • H for 'human': The missing climate link?
    As many commentators have pointed out down the years, virtually all the hopes expressed by governments in terms of reducing carbon emissions ultimately hang on technology. It stems from the famous IPAT equation: Impact = Population x Affluence x Technology ...sometimes expressed as... Impact = ...
  • Summit misses the 'C-word'
    Some fascinating threads on energy and climate change are swirling around the heads of Presidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao as the two leaders convene in Washington DC. China's energy direction is assured - but is the US's? The "C-word" isn't being mentioned in despatches at all - but the E-word ...
  • Real world of climate: How scary?
    Earlier this week I posted on uncertainty in climate model projections, raising the question of whether lack of certainty made the future more or less "scary" - and what it should mean for policymaking. As would have been expected, I guess, your responses varied greatly - from Maurizio Maurabito's ...

The Wonk Room

thwap's schoolyard

  • Lindsey Graham - Afghanistan is all about the air ...
    Just want to point out that Repug senator Lindsey Graham vindicated what I've been (unoriginally) saying all along about Afghanistan. It's simply to provide air bases for the US to project power in Central Asia. Of course, Graham lies and tries to say that the US will provide these bases for the sec ...
  • The Arab Street
    I don't know anything about "the Arab street." I think I've read that it's a journalist cliche for an attempt to describe public opinion around the Middle East. But I've also heard the term used rather frequently following the Tunisian Revolution. This revolution involved the overthrow of a corrupt ...
  • Food in 2011
    Something else to watch for: "The Great Food Crisis of 2011" On the demand side, the culprits are population growth, rising affluence, and the use of grain to fuel cars. On the supply side: soil erosion, aquifer depletion, the loss of cropland to nonfarm uses, the diversion of irrigation water to ci ...
  • Tunisia - How bad it had to get
    There's another global food crisis in the works. The global economic crisis is hitting the poorest nations worst. But there are elites and there are the rest of us. In a sense "We are all Tunisians now." http://counterpunch.org/ridley01142011.html
  • Normalizing Horror
    I ... know it's been a long time ago, ... but bear with me. One of Hitler's claims to fame is that he killed SIX MILLION Jews. (That's like, ... if you were to walk up and down the streets of Toronto and shake hands with everybody you met, ... TWICE that amount of human beings. Toddlers with their ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Immigrant whistleblowers don't have to answer ques ...
    One of the most pernicious forms of exploitation today is the abuse of undocumented immigrant workers. It has been a long time since our immigration laws matched the aspiration of the Statue of Liberty, and millions of immigrant workers are forced into an undocumented status that leaves them vulnera ...
  • More interns working on whistleblower cases
    We are pleased to have even more interns joining us this semester. You can see our first group of interns (who are still with us) here. �Standing are Christopher, Jesse, David, David, Zach, Shane, Milan and Naoki. Seated are Sabeen, Karen, Ryan, Sabrina and Whitney. Thank you all for your dedica ...
  • Appeals Court to Rule Shortly on Constitutional At ...
    The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit is expected to rule shortly on the constitutionality of a key provision of America's most successful and powerful whistleblower protection law, the False Claims Act (FCA). ACLU v. Holder, Fourth Circuit Case No. 09-2086. The attack against th ...
  • DOL issues new final rules for environmental whist ...
    The U.S. Department of Labor has finally issued its responses to comments submitted in 2007 about its interim regulations for nuclear and environmental whistleblowers. Codified at 29 CFR Part 24, these regulations have been trendsetters for regulations affecting other whistleblower statutes. The Dep ...
  • Ninth Circuit protects social worker's court testi ...
    Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion holding that a social worker is protected from retaliation for his courtroom testimony about  a former client. The case is Clairmont v. Sound Mental Health and Wilson, No. 09-35856 (9th Cir. 2011). From 2005 to 2007, Sound ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Feature Film Made In GTA IV
    Nearly a decade ago, we talked about how the concept of machinima was becoming more mainstream, and plenty has happened since then. People have made all sorts of cool stuff within video games. Slashdot points us to a short blog post by someone pointing out how it's becoming cheaper than ever to ma ...
  • Has The Fourth Amendment Been Dismantled By Techno ...
    Michael Scott points us to a fascinating book chapter by Christopher Slobogin, in which he discusses how the courts have effectively stripped away the Fourth Amendment in a technological era by effectively saying that "virtual" technology-based searches don't fall under the Fourth Amendment and, thu ...
  • The Process Of Laying The Very First Transatlantic ...
    One of my favorite Wired articles ever is Neal Stephenson's insanely long, but wonderfully entertaining account of laying fiber optic cable across oceans from back in 1997. If you've never read it, set aside a few hours and dig in. While he mentions, briefly, the first transatlantic cable laid in ...
  • DailyDirt: Robot Helicopters
    Flying is a great mode of transportation. Technically, though, there are a few different kinds of flying. Gliding or soaring like a sparrow (African or European, it doesn't matter) is fine, but the capabilities of a helicopter are sometimes much more useful. Hovering and vertical take-offs are rea ...
  • Ironic That Xerox Wants Laws To Break The Copying ...
    We've already discussed the list of companies that have come out in favor of censoring the internet via domain name seizures and laws like COICA which extend the ability to censor the web through breaking the basic DNS system. As some pointed out, one of the names on the list that really stood out ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    First Tunisia and now Egypt.  Let’s hope this game of dominoes goes on for a while.  By the looks of it, the young people are feeling it. The Haiti news has been fascinating this last week.  Baby Doc has the nerve to return to Haiti.  Michele Montas (maybe you saw her in the Agronomist) is [...]
  • Borders, Scale and Mental Boxes
    Michael Lind recently put out a piece in Slate called Let’s Stop Pretending the Constitution is Sacred.  He won’t get any lip from me on that.  I don’t think anything is sacred.  But in making his argument, he ends up undermining one of the key understandings central to his argument.  And I’m ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Looks like Baby Doc got picked up by the police in Haiti today. Some people are wondering why he was allowed to fly in. Some people are wondering if they are really going to prosecute him. I’m wondering why the fuck that murdering bastard has been drinking wine and eating baguettes in France all thi ...
  • On Speech
    I can’t believe the number of articles I have seen about the violent rhetoric of the right and how it is responsible for the Safeway shooting.  (I’m not going to call it the Gifford shooting, because a hell of a lot of people got shot that day and they count too.)   And now rumor [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I feel like I should say something about the anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, but it is just a silent scream at this point.  Haitians are gathering all over Haiti to commemorate, grieve, and try to figure out what the hell to do.  I sincerely hope all white knights will get the hell out of the [ ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

treehugger

  • Get Back to the Basics of Cooking with Handle Me C ...
    Image: Angell Wyller Aarseth Kitchens these days are filled with more and more gadgets, designed to save time, to make things easier, from chopping to frying to cleaning. It's a trend that Norwegian design studio Angell Wyller Aarseth is fighting against with their debut project, the Handle Me ...
  • Your Ski and Snowboard Wax Could Be Seriously Harm ...
    Photo by bobaliciouslondon via Flickr.com. Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com. We're in the thick of ski and snowboard season, and if you've been hitting the slopes a lot, you've probably had to wax your skis or board at least once. But have yo ...
  • What is Biodynamic Gardening? (Video)
    You'll have to watch the video to find out what that is... Image credit: Permaculture Media When I asked how vegetarians can avoid animal-based fertilizers, I noted that some people suggested exploring biodynamics instead of organics. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. Biodynamic ...
  • With a Hybrid Diaper, a French Designer Greens Bab ...
    Photo: Alex Davies At the Meet My Project design exposition in Paris this week, French designer Florence Hallouin presented her latest work. Hallouin, a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Nationale Superieure de Creation Industrielle and a working mother with a passion for sustainability, decide ...
  • Pants & Bike Lights. Don't Leave Home Without Them
    Strategies for Getting Around Without Bike Lights (or Pants) from BICYCLE TRANSPORTATION ALLIANCE on Vimeo. Would you leave home without pulling on some pants? That's the question being asked by the Bicycle Transportation Alliance and the Portland Mercury (Oregon) in this video. Their simple argu ...

Biosingularity

  • Melanoma Drug Prolonged Patients’ Lives in Clinica ...
    Advanced melanoma patients taking an experimental drug aimed at a particular mutation in their tumors lived longer than patients who did not receive the drug in a decisive clinical trial, the drugâs manufacturer, Roche, said Wednesday. via Melanoma Drug Prolonged Patientsâ Lives in Clinical Trial – ...
  • Anders Ynnerman: Visualizing the medical data expl ...
    � Anders Ynnerman: Visualizing the medical data explosion | Video on TED.com.
  • Strawberries, Blueberries May Ward Off High Blood ...
    Eating just 1 cup of strawberries or blueberries each week can reduce your risk of developing high blood pressure, a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke. The new findings appear in the February issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The new study included 87,242 women who to ...
  • Putting up a struggle against cancer
    MIT scientists have discovered that cells lining the blood vessels secrete molecules that suppress tumor growth and keep cancer cells from invading other tissues, a finding that could lead to a new way to treat cancer. Elazer Edelman, professor in the MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and Tech ...
  • Woman’s voice restored after larynx transpla ...
    A woman in the US is able to speak for the first time in 11 years after a pioneering voicebox transplant.Brenda Jensen said the operation, which took place in California, was a miracle which had restored her life.Thirteen days after the surgery she said her first words: “Good morning, I want to go h ...

CFACT

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Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • Deadly Superbugs are Spread Miles from Farms by Ho ...
    Potentially deadly superbugs can be spread by flies from farms to people living miles away, scientists warned last night.Click here to read this article
  • 3 Senators Propose Legalizing Sale of Raw Milk
    WORTHINGTON, Minn. - Three state senators have proposed easing restrictions on the sale of raw milk in Minnesota.Click here to read this article
  • USDA to Fully Deregulate Monsanto's Genetically En ...
    USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack announced this afternoon that the agency will fully deregulate Monsanto's controversial genetically engineered alfalfa. The choice was favored by the biotech industry and one of three options identified in the USDA's Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) released las ...
  • Mexico Denies Request for Expansion of Monsanto's ...
    MEXICO CITY (AP) - Authorities in Mexico have denied an application from seed giant Monsanto Co. to expand to pilot planting projects of genetically modified corn in northern Mexico, arguing that more experimental planting is needed to ensure the GM crops won't affect native corn varieties.Click her ...
  • National Organic Coalition 'Gravely Disappointed' ...
    The National Organic Coalition (NOC) today is shocked and disappointed over the decision by USDA Secretary Vilsack to de-regulate Genetically Engineered (GE) Alfalfa. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XXXVI ...
    Una de las series que más les ha gustado a nuestros suscriptores y visitantes en general, es precisamente esta que he titulado 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes'. Por ello mismo, hoy le estoy entregando a usted la parte número 38 de esta fascinante colección. Para ver todas las imágenes ...
  • Las mejores imágenes de paisajes naturales XI (7 f ...
    Si usted desea ver más imágenes de paisajes naturales, escenarios campestres y paraísos terrenales, por favor escoja un número a continuación. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gu ...
  • Viaje por el fondo del mar IV (Animales Acuáticos)
    Si desea, ver más imágenes y fotografías de animales acuáticos, escoja un número a continuación (1)(2)(3)(4) y navegue por las profundidades del océano. Le aseguro que será para usted una experiencia inolvidable. ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga clic ...
  • Imágenes, frescos y pinturas católicas III (7 lien ...
    Así de rápido como pasa el viento, vamos ya en la tercera parte de esta colección titulada 'Imágenes, frescos y pinturas católicas'. Como siempre, esperamos que esta serie sea de su agrado y quedamos a su más completa disposición. No olvide usted mandarnos sus imágenes y fotografías al correo picays ...
  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XXXVI ...
    Si lo desea, puede revisar nuestras entregas anteriores sobre esta serie titulada 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas'. Sólo escoja un número a continuación y disfrute plenamente nuestro archivo con más de 1,000 fotografías gratis en alta resolución. [1][2][3][4][5]-[6]-[7][8][9] ...

Center for a Livable Future

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

Norwegianity

  • Guns-R-U.S.
    Really don’t have anything to say about Egypt, not quite yet. Weird-assed religious shit is involved so it’s really hard to say what the best outcome would be, not that I would miss the Mubarak government in the slightest. Let me know which side Israel is on, and I’ll take the other side. [Note: Joe ...
  • Npm (like public radio but less pee-em-essy)
    [image liberated from Barefoot and Progressive] Al Franken’s new mentee is saying we have to rethink our bottomless barrel approach to subsidizing Israel’s pissantry. President Barack Obama in late 2009 approved an additional $2.77 billion for Israeli foreign aid in 2010, and another $30 billion ove ...
  • Buttockicizing Michele
    No catchy hook to start the day, the Wolves having sucked that out of me last night. Newsie links: DC in the dark, jokes to follow Conoco demands tax cuts to go with record profits Kucinich sues cafeteria vendor (jokes already in progress, but had a GOoPer broken his tooth, I’m betting they would ha ...
  • Scammin D. Phish calling
    Checked the blog stats and saw about two dozen hits from some site I never heard of so I checked to see what scam they were hyping and got taken to this page: If you were totally blotto, I could see how you might get sucked in. Somehow they swiped the Safari browser’s log in [...]
  • The Maroon Chronicles
    I am a maroon. That or I have some rare syndrome the possession of which should make you feel sorry for me. Increasingly I’m assuming things and then forgetting to verify them. Buddy Mike emailed me that he was reading poetry at Trotter’s Cafe tonight. I looked at the address, thought, I bet I know ...

Public News Service

  • Federal Cash Available to Low-Income AZ Families
    Federal Cash Available to Low-Income AZ Families Phoenix, AZ – Today (Friday) is Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day, a reminder to low-income families that they may be eligible to receive up to $5,600 by simply filing a federal tax return. Volunteers are available at sites across the state to de ...
  • Arizona Facing Lawsuit Over Constitutional Amendme ...
    Arizona Facing Lawsuit Over Constitutional Amendment Phoenix, AZ – The State of Arizona is facing a lawsuit from the National Labor Relations Board over a constitutional amendment approved by voters last fall. Comments from Rebekah Friend, executive director, Arizona AFL-CIO.
  • Federal Laws May Help AZ Schools Deal With Bullies
    Federal Laws May Help AZ Schools Deal With Bullies Phoenix, AZ - Bullying remains a problem in many Arizona school districts and elsewhere. Some say more anti-bullying policies are needed, but others say federal laws already on the books may be enough to handle much of the problem. Comments from Jen ...
  • Will Medicaid Cuts Cripple Arizona’s Health ...
    Will Medicaid Cuts Cripple Arizona’s Health Care System? Phoenix, AZ – Arizona is expected to formally request a waiver from the federal government to drop 280-thousand people from the state’s Medicaid program known as AHCCCS (Access). If the waiver is granted, medical providers are worried the resu ...
  • Stalking Moving Into Cyber-space
    Stalking Moving Into Cyber-space Phoenix, AZ – January is National Stalking Awareness Month and new technology can play a big role in stalking cases. Comments from Cindy Southworth, founder of the Safety Net Technology Project at the National Network to End Domestic Violence, and Jeff Greipp (GRIPE) ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Fighting a Common Enemy on the GMO Battlefield
    Yesterday’s announcement by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that it will once again allow unlimited, nation-wide commercial planting of Monsanto’s genetically-engineered (GE) Roundup Ready alfalfa, despite the many risks to organic and conventional farmers, is deeply disturbing, but not su ...
  • USDA Decision On GE Alfalfa Leaves Door Open For C ...
    ROGUE AGENCY CHOOSES “BUSINESS AS USUAL” OVER SOUND SCIENCE CENTER ANNOUNCES IMMEDIATE LEGAL CHALLENGE TO USDA’S FLAWED ASSESSMENT  The Center for Food Safety criticized the announcement today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that it will once again allow unlimited, nation-wide commercia ...
  • Tell Sec. of Agriculture Vilsack to Adopt a Morato ...
    In a precedent-setting final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the planting of Monsanto’s genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) acknowledges for the first time that GE contamination of organic and conventionally grown crops presents a huge problem in the ...
  • Feds Yank GE Crops From All Northeast Refuges
    Settlement of Bombay Hook Suit Makes Southeast Refuges Next Legal Target    The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has agreed to stop planting genetically engineered (GE) crops on all its refuges within a dozen Northeastern states, according to a settlement agreement in a lawsuit brought by conservation a ...
  • In Wake Of Pending FDA Approval Of GE Salmon, Cali ...
    Bill Would Require Labels on All Genetically Engineered Salmon   Dissatisfied with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) current review of the first-ever proposed commercialization of genetically engineered (GE) salmon, today California State Assemblymember Jared Huffman introduced an Assemb ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • John John: The View From Occupied Canada #229
    The Day - Groton Guard detachment is heading to Egypt | News from southeastern Connecticut Groton - Connecticut National Guard Detachment 2, Company I, 185th Aviation Regiment of Groton has mobilized and will deploy to the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, to support the Multinational Force and Observers. Th ...
  • The Rescuers
    I was recently roaming through the airport duty free bookshop in one of the Gulf States which used to have strict censorship on reading material. Up until a year ago, I was unable to find some books or magazines on the shelves of any of the bookstores, and I was told by the managers that the go ...
  • allAfrica.com: Uganda: Can We Talk Honestly About ...
    allAfrica.com: Uganda: Can We Talk Honestly About Homosexuality?: "David Kato, a gay rights activist who campaigned against the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, and who sued a local tabloid last year after it named him as being homosexual, was killed in his home this week. Police say they are investigating ...
  • وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Ramallah PA gang takes ...
    The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Ramallah PA gang takes it out on Aljazeera Abu Mazen-Fayyad gangs are not pleased with Aljazeera. (thanks Sousan) Palestinian protesters vandalize Al-Jazeera offices in Ramallah - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News: "About 250 Abbas loya ...
  • Tamar Manasseh: America's Violent Past and the que ...
    America's Violent Past and the question of Race America's race problem [www.finalcall.com] Whether we like it or not, any time this country is confronted with the question of race, it responds violently. In 1865 with passage of the 13th amendment, slavery was abolished. Then came the 14th amendmen ...

Pensieve

  • Magnificent
    This movie brought me to tears. It is the story of a man whose lack of limbs from birth relegated him to life as a circus side-show freak. It tells of how he was recognized by the owner of a rival circus as “magnificent”. After overcoming his bitterness, the man transformed from freak to hero. [...] ...
  • Departure
    Photo by PeWu Iâm at the train station; no one knows Iâm there. Iâm standing in line, debating with myself. Should I buy a ticket or just walk away? Am I a coward for leaving? Is it brave to lie? I recognize the hurt that others are going through their lives crumbling to dust. Am [...] Related pos ...
  • Muddy Metaphor
    I went to the La Silla River this morning. A year ago It was once more of a swamp than a river, with brackish water and muddy banks. But, a few months ago, hurricane flooded it; many houses were filled with mud, and cars were swept away. But soon after the storm passed, the river [...] Related pos ...
  • Confused about the Amendments
    The constitutional amendments keep coming. It appears though that these still have to be ratified. The changes are only “initiatives”, and are not yet binding. The article I am using as a basis first said the “reform was approved”, but that it still needs to be “ratified” once the next legislature b ...
  • More Constitutional Amendments!?
    The Honduran Congress has introduced more constitutional amendments last night, apparently to reform the judicial branch of government. I hope the Supreme Court declares them unconstitutional quickly; I suspect the reforms are “punishment” for the Supreme Court not bending to Manuel Zelaya’s will in ...

Green Times

  • Queuing for a Fashion Sale
    The annual summer sales seduce many people into buying unnecessary amounts of plastic bags full of cheap goods. Unfortunately, not many people consider the ecological impact of their actions. Landscape destruction caused by mass production of cotton, fair trade issues and the use of toxic chemicals ...
  • Street art imitating nature
    If forests and jungles keep getting destroyed around the world, street art like this will be the only memories of their unreplaceable beauty. Many people still consider exotic wood furniture to be a special sign of luxury but don’t consider the ecological impact of destroying the forests where th ...
  • Environmental News 27/01/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Rusting Rail Line
    Transport evolution from locomotives to the latest inventions like the magnetic levitation hover-train project is amazing and make the history of transport fascinating. While the first steam engines worked with in the form of coal and emitted an enormous amount of carbon dioxide (glossary/catego ...
  • Factory Ruins
    Is there an eco friendly way to close down a factory? Most companies try to avoid to remove all environmentally unsafe substances in order to save money. The complex disposal of industrial pollutants (climate-change/pollutants.html) like heavy metals can become very expensive. In some cases i ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • 'Police open fire as protesters re-gather in Cairo ...
    ShareThis'Police open fire as protesters re-gather in Cairo' --Eyewitnesses claim that security forces shot at protesters in Egyptian capital angry at President Mubarak's refusal to step down; Mubarak sacks gov't, defends police crackdown on protesters. 29 Jan 2011 Hundreds of Egyptians gathered in ...
  • Anonymous: UK arrests are a 'declaration of war'
    ShareThisAnonymous: UK arrests are a 'declaration of war' 28 Jan 2011 Anonymous has issued a warning to the UK government after five young men suspected of being connected to the group were arrested on Thursday. The group, which has claimed responsibility for a series of distributed denial-of-servic ...
  • Suicide bomber kills Kandahar deputy governor
    ShareThisSuicide bomber kills Kandahar deputy governor 29 Jan 2011 A suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed the deputy governor of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province on Saturday, a NATO official and the governor's spokesman said. Deputy Governor Abdul Latif Ashna was killed inside Kandahar city ...
  • Minot police: 'Multiple homicides' at 2 residences
    ShareThisMinot police: 'Multiple homicides' at 2 residences 28 Jan 2011 Police say they're investigating "multiple homicides" [four dead] at two Minot residences in north central North Dakota. A Friday statement from police says the homicides appear to be related and that a "person of interest" is b ...
  • Bombings kill 4, injure 19 in Pakistan
    ShareThis*Blackwater:* Bombings kill 4, injure 19 in Pakistan 29 Jan 2011 Twin truck bombings in Pakistan's northwest have claimed the lives of at least four people, including two women, and left 19 others injured, Pakistani officials say. The attacks took place late Friday night in and outside a ke ...

Daily Loaf

  • Spring Arts Preview 2011: You Gotta See This!
    Spring is almost here. Well, it feels like it, anyway. Click here for the links to all the sneak-peeks and must-sees in film, visual arts, theater and music hitting theaters, spaces and stages in the upcoming season.
  • Can you be too healthy for multi-vitamins?
    Aside from the vitamins and minerals found in commonly consumed foods, fortified foods like vitamin waters and certain cereals are also finding a major market. With the influx of extra vitamins in everyday foods, there is a risk of getting too much of a good thing.
  • Mosaic execs cool with spending big money on Adam ...
    Why do this anyway? Putnam is on the record of being a strong supporter of the phosphate industry. Remember the exchange he had with his Democratic opponent, Scott Maddox, last fall at a Tiger Bay event?
  • Bill’s Sports Binge Friday freeway: Transplant tra ...
    Like getting Gasparilla beads: temporary cheap thrills followed by regret
  • The Gaily News: Kelly Osbourne and the other woman ...
    It’s come out that when Kelly Osbourne and her fiance Luke Worrall split up last summer it was because he cheated on her — with a transgendered woman. The woman in question is model Elle Schneider, who was born a man. A Facts of Life star has come out of the closet — and it’s not [...]

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • No more cancer: Israeli Army admits Jawaher killed ...
    By Jesse Bacon I In a triumph of the obvious truth over incoherent lies, the Israeli Army now admits that Jawaher Abu Rahmah was indeed killed by tear gas at a demo, not as their anonymous speculation would have it by cancer or an honor killing. These tales violated basic plausibility, but they did ...
  • When and where will Israel’s Tucson be?
    By Jesse Bacon By rights it should have been in 1995, when Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated. But the man who took over for him as Prime Minister after appearing at a rally where he was depicted as a Nazi is Prime Minister again. And Rabin’s party was just split into its final tiny segments. And the cu ...
  • Exclusive Interview: JNF demolishes village for th ...
    By Jesse Bacon Bulldozes from the Jewish National Fund demolished the Bedouin village for Al-Arakib for the ninth time yesterday and today. They also demolished the village’s olive groves the week of Tu Bshvat, which celebrates the flowering of trees so they can grow a forest named after a Fundament ...
  • More precious than oil: help rebuild destroyed cis ...
    From Ta’ayush’s appeal to help rebuild cisterns destroyed by the Israeli military. Dear Friends and Supporters, The situation of the Palestinian cave-dwellers in South Hebron Hills continues to be difficult. They suffer from permanent harassment carried out by the military and settlers. This y ...
  • Targetted professor stands up for human rights in ...
    By Jesse Bacon Neve Gordon, whose own academic freedom was threatened after his support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, writes in the Nation on the continued slide of human rights in Israel. This time at Ben Gurion Airport the site of much harassment of democracy activists as we ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Michael Vicks’ dogs make a comeback
    Sue and I do cat rescue and fostering. Currently we are fostering two kittens that were found abandoned by a road. They were traumatized and starving when we got them. Now they are happy and playful, as well as best friends forever. They are totally bonded. After all they’ve been through Hell and ha ...
  • Really Bad Idea of the Day
    Shining laser beams into the eyes of pilots landing at airports. Imagine the surprise of the pranksters doing it when they get arrested and discover it’s a federal offense. Kids: leave those laser pointers at home when you go near an airport!
  • Egypt, and the reaction of the US and Israel
    Wouldn’t it be nice if the U.S. could figure out whether it prefers the democracy it’s always talking about publicly or the “stability of dictatorships” it has always funded with military aid, though? The US (and Israel) are totally in favor of democracy except when they aren’t. In fact, Israel just ...
  • Egypt. No turning back
    Protesters will either topple the government or the resultant repression from the current government will be vicious. They only thing that really matters now is whether the police and military stay loyal. Continuing coverage at FDL , Juan Cole, and The Guardian.
  • Polizeros Radio. SOTU, Egypt, organizing tactics, ...
    Tonight’s discussion was free-ranging. The SOTU address seemed mostly banal. Also, Utah revamped their state pension plan in just one year, potentially saving 50%. Can this be a model for other states? It shows that change can happen, and quickly too. Egypt is erupting. Will the protests succeed in ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

  • GOP: Party of Forced Teen Birth
    The House Republican majority is trying to redefine "rape" in order to deny a large percentage of rape and incest victims access to Medicaid-funded abortions, Nick Baumann reports: "With this legislation, which was introduced last week by Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.),�Republicans propose that th ...
  • Sorry, Kids, You Can't Get High on Bath Salts
    Some lessons in media literacy are more painful than others. Listen up, kids. Despite what you read in the papers, you cannot get high on bath salts or plant food. "Bath salts" and "plant food" are just euphemisms that internet head shops use to sell real drugs. These amphetamine-like designer ... ...
  • Steve Jobs Bought Human Liver Like Foie Gras
    Will Saletan accuses Apple CEO Steve Jobs of "gaming the system" to get a liver transplant: Jobs lives in Northern California, but he got his liver in Tennessee. Why? Different parts of the country have different waiting lists, and the wait in Northern California was three times longer than the ...
  • Commodities Trader Arrested for Threatening to Kil ...
    Former New York commodities trader Vincent McCrudden was charged in federal court this week with threatening to kill 47 current and former federal regulators from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and other agencies. McCrudden ...Rea ...
  • It Gets Better, But Probably Not With a Boob Job
    Amanda of Pandagon points to a disturbing ABC News story about teens getting plastic surgery in a bid to escape bullying or, and/or to recover from the psychological scars of bullying. We meet Erica, who was mercilessly teased about her nose, became so distraught that she started skipping ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Roundup: Prineville, Zynga, Android, Veri ...
    Facebookâs Murphy Back, At Zynga, Too - Facebookâs first advertising sales chief Mike Murphy left the company in October to take time off, but now heâs back. Specifically heâll be doing part-time ad consulting with the Facebook and Zynga, according to AllThingsD. [Image via Facebook] Facebook Work ...
  • Facebook’s Redesigned Page Creation Flow Helps Adm ...
    Facebook has redesigned its Page creation flow to be more intuitive and user friendly. The different Page types are represented with images that when clicked reveal fields for required information and a drop-down menu of specific Page categories. The redesign should reduce the likelihood of new admi ...
  • Platform Update: Developers Site Reorganization, D ...
    Facebook announced it the Friday Platform update announced that it has reorganized the Developers site to make information easier to find. It has also posted a final reminder about January 31st being the termination date of several features and APIs. The Developers site was previously divided into d ...
  • Facebook Confirms Removal of Suggest to Friends Fe ...
    Facebook removed the Suggest to Friends link from Pages last week when a bug caused the feature to load incorrectly. However, an article in the Help Center confirms that the option will not be returned to users, and that they should now use the Share button to ask Friends to Like a Page. The closing ...
  • ISA 2011: Facebook CTO Bret Taylor on The 2011 Fac ...
    Facebook CTO Bret Taylor joined us at our conference Inside Social Apps InFocus 2011 to shed light on how Facebook is thinking about the core questions facing the future of the Platform. The full video of the discussion is available below. Highlights include his discussion of Facebook’s plans for mo ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • State of Our Union reality check: US rhetoric and ...
    Eileen Fleming compares President Barack Obama's lofty words during his 2011 State of the Union address with the reality of Washington's foreign policy in the Middle East, where the USA underwrites with tax dollars and state-of-the arts weapons Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity.
  • The Palestine Papers, Israel and Britain
    Gilad Atzmon argues that more than anything, the leaked Palestine Papers show that Israel is not in the slightest bit interested in peace, and they demonstrate British deceitfulness and hypocrisy. "...at the time that the British government was supposedly advocating 'democracy' in Palestine, the re ...
  • Palestine Papers: Don't get mad, Palestinians. Get ...
    Stuart Littlewood reflects on the scandalous revelations of the leaked Palestine Papers, which exposed the willingness of the Palestinian National Authority to concede to Israel inalienable Palestinian rights. He says that what Palestinians need now are "incorruptible unity leadership, tactical cour ...
  • Stuttgart Declaration for a One-State Solution in ...
    Lawrence Davidson views the inexorable march of history which underlines the Stuttgart Declaration for a One-State Solution in Palestine and which, he believes, will eventually end in the demise of Zionism and racism in Israel and lead to its replacement by a secular democratic state of all its citi ...
  • Sleeping giant wakes up in the Arab world
    Yvonne Ridley argues that the tide has turned in the Arab world now that the people have breached the fear barrier, and predicts that oppressive and corrupt Arab regimes, which have been propped up by the US and its European allies, will begin to tumble like dominos.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

Afro Spear

  • “DC a Sign of Our Nation’s Times&#8221 ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21  Our nation’s capital exemplifies what America can become, but not in a good way. Results from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey finds abysmally high percentages of single-parent households in underprivileged neighborhoods. As the District of Columbia is a ...
  • Samuel Yette and The Choice: Black Survival in the ...
    From Black Agenda Report (BAR): Samuel Yette and The Choice: Black Survival in the United States. “Samuel Yette died last week and the choice he wrote of, a choice long ago reached by this country, is a choice weâve still not caught up to. It is a choice of this nation to more or less [...]
  • Jazzuloo: inner rhythms of the jazz melodies in my ...
    It’s time to return to blogging from a more personal perspective on a consistent basis, so I have a new blog home: Jazzuloo. It won’t be AfroSpear-lite, so there will be little cross-posting. Click on the image below and come visit from time to time.
  • “Things fall apart in Tanzania” by Nkw ...
    What transpired in Tanzania on 5th January tells it all. The “Peace-and-tranquillity” mantra that rulers have always sold is no more. It was reported that three people were killed by police when they were quashing a peaceful demonstration orchestrated by Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (CHADEMA) i ...
  • Drapetomania…Catch it if you Can!
    “Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race,” by Dr. Cartwright DRAPETOMANIA, OR THE DISEASE CAUSING NEGROES TO RUN AWAY. It is unknown to our medical authorities, although its diagnostic symptom, the absconding from service, is well known to our planters and overseers… In noticing a disease not h ...

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

  • Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall
    Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall “We are sending the power of love, peace and compassion, which can change the world.” â Hugh MacDougall, Australia, SEN Honorary Advisor Hugh was more to Suzanne and I than SEN’s Honorary Spiritual Advisor. He was the beloved friend we called brother, and he was t ...
  • No to Monsanto and GMO: Action Central
    "SEN is greatly concerned that Monsanto and GMO give rise to a threat that if unchecked could eventually prove as catastrophic to mankind and the sustainability of all life on earth as global warming. We must scream bloody murder, and do so with facts." -- Gregory Hilbert, Co-Founder Sustainability ...
  • Bill Gates On Climate Change & Energy: We Must and ...
    Whether you know a little or a lot about Climate Change (aka Global Warming), SEN urges you to watch this one-hour video, because you will learn a great deal either way. Gates lays out a sweeping set of ideas for reducing CO2 emmissions to zero. Gates is no fool when it comes to matters of [...]
  • Week 2 – Worldwide Campaign to Save the Gran ...
    The Grand Canyon is one of the world's most pristine and majestic treasures. Mother Nature needs our help to save it. We all need to act to protect the Grand Canyon. Pledge to do your part. Help us by adding your signature to the petitions and ask everyone you know and who cares for earth to do the ...
  • Seize BP Demonstrations Nationwide
    SEN believes these demonstrations will help awaken politicians to outrage over inadequate regulation and control of international corporations, even if they do not succeed in gaining temporary seizure of BP on the basis of national emergency and evidence of criminal neglect and fraud by BP.

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

  • Secretariat the Horse, the Movie
    To be witness to history from afar is one thing, to be up close is another, and to have the wisdom to know the difference is the icing on the cake, of course, I am referring to great moments in history, of excelling in any endeavor, being human, or otherwise, of the bright spots and not of man’s dar ...
  • I understand and now you do, too!
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  • I understand, now you do too!
    A lot of people ask the question, why do they hate us so? This trailer from a new movie explains it in simple terms, it is a sociologist outlining the thinking that has emerge around the world in their views of the Empire. As with every Empire that has ever existed, conquered people will never [...]
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Unsuitable Blog

  • Nature Conservancy Embrace Dow Chemical Business M ...
    Below is a long list of chemical compounds and elements. This is not just an ordinary list, for it is special in all sorts of ways – not least of all to anyone who is a supporter of our old friends The Nature Conservancy. The list contains just those substances that the US Environmental Protection [ ...
  • Sudden Oak Death – It’s News Because I ...
    It’s commonly called Sudden Oak Death, so why the picture of a stand of larch trees? That’s a question well worth asking, but a far more important question is: why has Phytophthora ramorum, the name of the fungus responsible, become such big news in the UK? Ever since P. ramorum started blowing its ...
  • Mother Nature Network: A Hypocritical Crock Of Shi ...
    I make no apologies for the title of this post: I have just spent a short while reading the biographies of the Mother Nature Network Team, and have ended up in the kind of moral position that Immanuel Kant might have struggled with if he had had the internet to contend with in his philosophical [... ...
  • The Unsuitablog’s Worst of 2010
    Taking a cue from all the awards and “looking back on”s going on at the moment, it seems like just the right time to pick the very worst ethical hypocrites of 2010. Taking the year as a whole, there is a huge selection to choose from even when just looking at the pages of The [...]
  • Undermining in 2010: How Did I Do?
    There is something very human in looking back over a specific period of time and reflecting on what you have achieved, failed in or could just have done a bit better. It’s part of the learning process that civilization discourages, because if we really did look back and reflect upon what really matt ...

Subalternate Reality

  • “I Support Democratization, But…&#8221 ...
    The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (courtesy ...
  • All That Happens In The Middle East Can’t Be ...
    Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order.  âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on the ...
  • Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
    Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…”  Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constructi ...
  • Wealthy Far More Likely To Default On Mortgages
    crossposted at Political Correction For much of the past two years, Congressional Republicans have wasted few opportunities to blame poor and working class Americans for the financial meltdown and the subsequent recession. They’ve argued that through well-intentioned government initiatives, includ ...
  • GOP House Candidate: Mosque Near Ground Zero Is A ...
    Conservative activists and the Muslim-baiters among them are furious about a proposed Islamic community center to be built near Ground Zero.  The debate has become entirely unhinged and some of the more hateful folks are using the controversy as a rallying cry to oppose the construction of all futur ...

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • National Book Chains Like Borders were Built to Fa ...
    For those who think switching their allegiances between a bankrupt Borders that has refused to pay publishers, and the bigger Barnes and Noble which drove out countless independents, let me say this. Many of us in San Francisco consider it wrong-headed to even get a cup of coffee in a Borders or a B ...
  • Israel and Palestine - Did Israel Illegally Demoli ...
    Among Israel’s detractors is a widely held and circulated myth meant only to drive a wedge deeper between Israel and those she seeks for international support that claims Israel illegally demolished a Palestinian national landmark in East Jerusalem.The facts however, when presented—but even more, wh ...
  • Oil on the Edge - Gaping Holes in Saudi Arabia's O ...
    During the past three months, world prices for oil have steadily increased, leading to predictions that the $100 per barrel level will soon be breached. Although, in part, the increases reflect recovering demand in the world economy, the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) warned this week ...
  • Edge on Maternity - Israeli Scientists Find a Link ...
    Antioxidants are sold over the counter everywhere. They’re added to food, drink, and face cream. But according to Prof. Nava Dekel of the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Department of Biological Regulation, we still don’t have a complete understanding of how they act in our bodies. New research by P ...
  • Lebanon on the Edge - Hezbollah’s Coup in Lebanon ...
    On January 12, Hezbollah overthrew the Lebanese government. The constitutional coup, which effectively strips Prime Minister Saad Hariri of his powers, was timed with precision. As soon as news broke that he would meet President Obama in Washington, the group brought down Lebanon’s cabinet. Hariri’s ...

High Country News

  • War on The West: The sequel
    Life is going get even harder for Interior Secretary Ken Salazar as modern-day Sagebrush Rebels try to re-ignite a “War on the West.”
  • A marketing tune-up
    High Country News gets advice on marketing; holiday visitors; Lisa Song gets reporting job and Michelle Nijhuis wins grant; farewell, Bill Freudenburg.
  • The latest: Wyoming Range
    PXP will be allowed to develop 136 gas natural gas wells in the Wyoming Range.
  • The latest: Northern spotted owl
    According to scientific reviewers, Obama's new draft for managing the northern spotted owl is better than Bush's plan but still flawed.
  • Decades of drilling
    A graphic shows how Western states stack up against Texas and the Eastern U.S. when it comes to oil and gas drilling.

CounterCurrents

  • Fresh Protests Erupt In Egypt
    By AljazeeraProtests have erupted in cities across Egypt, with demonstrators demanding an end to Hosni Mubaraks presidency. Tens of thousands took to the streets across the country following Friday midday prayers
  • Egypt Leaves The Internet
    By James Cowie Confirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet
  • Egypt: Interview With Blogger Hossam el-Hamalawy
    By Mark LeVine Professor Mark LeVine interviews journalist and blogger Hossam el-Hamalawy on the situation in Egypt
  • Supplemental Blog On Arizona Shootings
    By Richard Falk Richard Falk reponds to the Lobbys vilification
  • The Palestinian People Betrayed
    By Saree Makdisi The leaked papers published by Al Jazeera show how craven Palestinian leaders are and how willing they were to sell out their peoples rights. Yet all they had to offer wasnt enough for Israel

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Hizballah Names Lebanese PM- And NY Times Has Hope ...
    By Barry Rubin The New York Times has an editorial that says this: "Lebanon's next prime minister, Najib Mikati, owes his job to Hezbollah. That is regrettable and dangerous. It will heighten Lebanon's divisions, antagonize Western donors (including the United States) and complicate the ...
  • Egypt--Just What The Heck is Happening??
    If somebody had asked me three weeks ago which mid-east regime would be in danger of being overturned Egypt would not have been at the top of the list. Yet that is what has happened and it is accelerating very rapidly. The reason I haven't written about it so far is that at this point, my head is st ...
  • A Note From Rabbi Steven Wernick One of The 400 Ra ...
    In response to the article I wrote yesterday,Latest Attack on Glenn Beck Shames The Rabbinical Profession and Desecrates God's Name I received a Facebook note from Rabbi Steven Wernick who was not only one of the 400 rabbis signing the "open letter" against Glenn Beck, but his was one of the lead s ...
  • New Study: 63% of All Doctors are Racist!-Newsbust ...
    A new study proves a fact long suspected by progressive thinkers, 63% of all doctors are racist, that is one of the interesting news items in today's Newsbusted, along with the real reasons behind the President's move toward regulation reform, why is is planning to spend a billion dollars for his re ...
  • Mainstream Media on the Middle East-Supporting The ...
    By Barry Rubin It seems to have become fashionable for some mainstream media outlets to become supporters of revolutionary Islamist movements recently. The Palestine papers case is an example but not the only one. The pro-Hizballah Lebanon correspondent of the New York Times first told ...

The Real Agenda

  • Fluoride: Impact on enzymes, endocrine system and ...
    Fluoride: A Statement of Concern by Paul Connett, PhD continues from part 1 26. Surely, if objective government scientists had been aware of this concern or prediction, they might have taken far more seriously the studies that followed. For example, in 1990 the National Toxicology Program (NTP) publ ...
  • Fluoride: A Statement of Concern
    by Paul Connett, PhD Introduction 1. I have been researching the literature on fluoride for just over three years. I approached this issue with an open mind. If I had any bias when I set out it was that those who were opposed to fluoridation were `crackpots’. 2. However, the more I have read the [.. ...
  • Mental Illness is ‘impossible to define&#821 ...
    Failure to disclose business relationships, badly performed tests and invented illness carried psychiatry to the edge of the cliff. By Gary Greenberg Wired.com Every so often Al Frances says something that seems to surprise even him. Just now, for instance, in the predawn darkness of his comfortable ...
  • Malaysia releases genetically modified Mosquitos
    12,000 mosquitos spark fears of uncontrollable new species Mail Online Malaysia has released 6,000 genetically modified mosquitoes into a forest in the first experiment of its kind in Asia aimed at curbing dengue fever. The field test is meant to pave the way for the official use of genetically engi ...
  • U.S. Military Men members of Knights of Malta
    By Stephen C. Webster January 21st, 2011 Veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh has broken some massive stories in his day, but uncovering secret societies within the highest echelons of America’s military would probably be the biggest of his career. Well, get ready for the media storm, becaus ...

Wind Watch

  • Blumenthal urges tough standards for siting of win ...
    Hartford – Attorney General Richard Blumenthal called on state officials to draft strict standards for the siting of wind power projects in Connecticut, including two that have generated local controversy in Colebrook and Prospect. Blumenthal, who was conducting what was likely his last press confer ...
  • US Interior urges Iberdrola to cut size of Califor ...
    The Obama administration is considering drastically reducing the size of a 200-MW wind project on federal lands near the Mexican border in San Diego County, California, in order to protect golden eagles. Regulators for the US Bureau of Land Management plan to publish Tuesday in the federal register ...
  • North Kingstown Town Council passes wind turbine m ...
    NORTH KINGSTOWN, RI — The Town Council unanimously passed a six-month moratorium on any new wind turbine proposals Monday night. The measure will not apply to two 427-foot turbines already proposed by Wind Energy Development LLC. One, at the North Kingstown Green housing development, has already bee ...
  • State probes company’s clear-cutting
    BNE Energy Inc. of West Hartford has faced stiff opposition in its efforts to operate the first commercial wind farms in Connecticut, with local residents fighting the company’s plans to build 400-foot turbines in scenic areas of the state. But now the windmill company faces what might be a bigger p ...
  • Lenches windfarm plans rejected
    A controversial application for a windfarm in The Lenches, near Evesham, has been refused by councillors at Wychavon this evening. Scottish Power Renewable�s proposal for five 2.3 mega watt turbines, measuring 126.5m from ground to blade tip, was rejected virtually outright during a special developm ...

Not My Tribe

  • Peewee Herman pimps ride for Sturgis
    Fat tires, custom motor, matte black frame and a wasp tail gas tank.
  • They never vote themselves off the lifeboat… ...
    There’s a Psych101 example that just about everybody who experiences college in America would find familiar, the Lifeboat Question. Setup for it is, you’re on a lifeboat, with absolutely no hope of rescue, You have passengers on board whose needs exceed the supply of fresh water and food. You have a ...
  • Protest of police state interests police
    COLORADO SPRINGS- Outnumbered! Though we comprised a perfectly respectable half-dozen on the hastily organized protest of FBI tactics meant to intimidate, scouting the city blocks which formed our periphery revealed motorcycle cops poised unseen behind corners. Is that merely obligatory, post-9/11, ...
  • There ARE some things you can blame on Mr Obama&#8 ...
    But this ain’t one of them. I mean, Gitmo is still open, torture is still happening, the murderous God-damned wars for profit are still happening…. and he hasn’t managed to fix 30 years worth of pure destructive “trickle down free market” economic policies which favor only people willing and able to ...
  • Now the shitkicker is on the other foot, will Bush ...
    This story is from the Yakima Herald. “YAKIMA, Wash. — Wyatt McNulty was listening to country music and waiting for a friend in the parking lot of the Social Security Administration building Monday morning when the magazine popped out of the gun concealed in his waistband.” OK, that’s the setup. For ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Obama Signs Bill to Compensate 9/11 First Responde ...
    Well, after 9 years those first responders who sacrificed their health to save others and to clean up the remains of the WTC are going to get compensated. According to this yahoo.com article: The James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act was named after a police officer who died of a respirato ...
  • Intellectual Rigor Mortis Sets In Early for 'Debun ...
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog stated today that physicist David Chandler "is hardly an exemplar of the highest standards of intellectual rigor." He points to a post from April 22, 2009 entitled "When Will David Chandler Fix His Errors?" that contains two broken video links from Chandler ...
  • Pat Curley--Still a Douche
    Pat Curley has noted Karen Johnsons involvement in Chemtrail research. Clearly he hasn't watched What In The World Are They Spraying?, since Karen appears in the film. So, for Pat's benefit... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf0khstYDLA#t=37m4s "Condemnation without investigation is the height of i ...
  • Zeitgeist-9/11: 2010 Update
    Part 2 of the film Zeitgeist concerning 9/11. Updated 2010 version. See the "Zeitgeist Sourcebook," which backs up the claims made in the film. The 9/11 section begins on page 101. As we have made clear several times on this blog, the evidence points to a plane hitting the Pentagon. Claims the fi ...
  • F U Brian Deer, Steven Novella, David Gorski, PZ M ...
    Sometimes it just needs to be said. :) Truth On Alleged Fraud In The Study Of Autism Cases Revealed These libelous accusations are based on the flimsiest possible construct. Deer claims fraud on the basis of differences between the case histories in the Lancet study and the children’s private med ...

Fooducate

  • Why the Happy Meal is a crime—and not just a culin ...
    This is a guest blog post by Michelle Simon. It originally appeared on Grist. When it comes to food, everybody’s got an opinion. Same goes for parenting. Mix the two together and you’ve got the makings of a culture war. Witness the recent scuffle between Sarah Palin and Michelle Obama over the White ...
  • Eating Habits We’ve Learned from Food Industry and ...
    This is a guest blog post by Carol Harvey, director of nutrition labeling at Palate Works. In today’s post – Habit No. 1: The Great Wall of Lunch Meat Make your own Ham & Swiss sandwich and it will be healthier, right? It depends on how you make it, of course, which depends on where [...]
  • The Anatomy of a Dorito
    Munching on savory snacks with the “Os” suffix (Tostitos, Doritos, Cheetos) goes hand in hand with playoff Sundays and the Superbowl. Would you like to know what you’re putting in your body each time you reach for a Doritos Cool Ranch? What you need to know: Question: How many Doritos do you eat in ...
  • How Fooducate Grades Products
    If you’ve been using the Fooducate iPhone App you may be wondering how products are graded. We’ve received inquiries on this matter from consumers, food manufacturers, and nutrition professionals. Fooducate’s philosophy is relatively simple, but the actual algorithmic implementation is quite complex ...
  • Oh No! Yet Another Front-of-Pack Nutrition Label t ...
    In a brash and preemptive move against the FDA and the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the 2 largest trade organizations representing the food industry have announced a new front-of-package label – Nutrition Keys. Here’s the pitch from the Grocery Manufacturers Association: In 2010, First Lady Michelle ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Anti-mining activist shot dead in Philippines
    Nickel mining threatens to devastate the Palawan tribe's land. © Dario Novellino An anti-mining activist has been murdered in the Philippines. Dr Gerry Ortega was shot dead four days ago on Palawan island. Local mayor Edward Hagedorn told journalists, ‘From the initial findings, we know that t ...
  • Cartoon book satirizing ‘development’ launched in ...
    Survival's 'There you go!' can be read in two minutes. © Oren Ginzburg/Survival Survival has launched in the United States a biting critique of how tribal peoples are being destroyed in the name of âdevelopmentâ. The critique is presented in a cartoon book called âThere you go!â that can be re ...
  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Will the military join the people in Egypt?
    The people of Egypt know the military is what matters, and it looks like they may win on this: Unconfirmed reports of fights between military and police according to Al Jazeera now. Military are moving toward Ministry of Defense and Radio and Television Building – no word yet of their plans as those ...
  • Could be an ugly day in Egypt today
    Three news items to flag: The Egyptian government is cutting off Egyptian internet connections. A large crackdown is occurring against the Muslim Brotherhood, the largest opposition group in Egypt. And from an Egyptian expert on the Egyptian army: Unlike Tunis, the army is probably quite willing to ...
  • Will the military join the people in Egypt?
    The people of Egypt know the military is what matters, and it looks like they may win on this: Unconfirmed reports of fights between military and police according to Al Jazeera now. Military are moving toward Ministry of Defense and Radio and Television Building – no word yet of their plans as those ...
  • Could be an ugly day in Egypt today
    Three news items to flag: The Egyptian government is cutting off Egyptian internet connections. A large crackdown is occurring against the Muslim Brotherhood, the largest opposition group in Egypt. And from an Egyptian expert on the Egyptian army: Unlike Tunis, the army is probably quite willing to ...
  • Egypt, Revolutions and Food
    Zero Hedge notes something interesting about food prices post-Tunisia: Dow Jones reports that wheat futures just hit a 29-month highs on “strong global demand.” Per the newswire, Algeria bought 800,000 tons of milling wheat, with traders estimating the nation’s purchases for January at about 1.8M. T ...

Age of Autism

  • Mark Blaxill on WITF PA "Smart Talk" Vaccines and ...
    Smart Talk, on WITF in PA ran a show on autism and vaccines featuring Mark Blaxill, Cynthia Demuth, AAP representative and Dr. Jeannette Ramer. Here's the direct link: WATCH HERE Watch the full episode. See more Smart Talk.
  • Gary Null Features Statement from Julia Ahier Wake ...
    From Gary Null's Website. January 28, 2011 We wanted to share this message from Julia Ahier, one of the "Lancet 12" parents whos child was treated by Dr. Andrew Wakefield.- Gary "I am absolutely convinced that the MMR triggered my...
  • Best of AofA: Lancet Boss Failed to Disclose Own C ...
    Managing Editor's Note: This post first ran in March, 2010. By John Stone Sir Crispin Davis, until recently chief executive of Reed Elsevier which owns the Lancet, failed to disclose his own conflicts while denouncing Andrew Wakefield to the House...
  • Best of AofA: Brian Deer and the Davis Brothers
    Managing Editor's Note: This post first ran in May of 2009. By John Stone I thought it might be insightful at the juncture to re-publish an extract from the chapter I wrote the book ‘Silenced Witnesses – The Parent’s Story’...
  • Listen to Dr. Andrew Wakefield, Clifford Miller an ...
    Click HERE to download The Gary Null Show which aired yesterday, featuring Dr. Andrew Wakefield, attorney Clifford Miller and Isabella Thomas, one of the "Lancet parents" in the controversial case study from 1998 that set off the firestorm of autism...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • USDA Vilsack Turns Unregulated GMO Alfalfa Loose o ...
    USDA's Monsanto poster boy Vilsack approved deregulated genetically modified (GM) Alfalfa today, January 27, 2011. This is a case precedent for the GM Sugar Beets case coming up next, as well as for all other biotech crops.
  • 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.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Australia’s human rights record scrutinised ...
    ABC – Australia has had its human rights record scrutinised in an international peer review at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. The Universal Periodic Review was initiated in 2007, with each of the 192 member states agreeing to have their record examined every four years. Australia ...
  • Doctors reject ‘fear campaign’ on gene ...
    ABC – Pharmaceutical company Nycomed says it has conducted a survey into pharmacy-recommended generic drugs which shows evidence of customer confusion which could lead to overdoses. Nycomed also says generic medicines might not always be cheaper than brand-name medications. But AMA vice-president St ...
  • Israel conducts massive controlled blast
    UPI — Israel conducted a massive controlled explosion to calibrate instruments at seismic monitoring stations worldwide, officials said. The Geophysical Institute of Israel detonated 100 tons of explosives at a site in the Negev Wednesday. It registered 2.7 on the Richter scale, and created a mushro ...
  • Inquiry into 1973 death of Chile’s Salvador ...
    BBC - Chile’s authorities are launching the first ever inquiry into the death of socialist President Salvador Allende. His body was found in the presidential palace after it was attacked by troops and planes during the 1973 coup that brought Gen Augusto Pinochet to power. The investigation will s ...
  • Dutch parliament approves new Afghanistan mission
    Deutsche Welle – Nearly one year after the Dutch government collapsed over disagreement on its mission in Afghanistan, lawmakers in the Netherlands have endorsed a decision to send police trainers to the war-torn nation. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s minority government obtained parliamentary ap ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Franciscan manzanita, once thought extinct, now re ...
    Cuttings from a native San Francisco plant once thought to have been extinct in the wild are now yielding hundreds of new seedlings. The Franciscan manzanita was rediscovered in 2009 when a botanist driving home from work spotted a shrub...
  • Californians to protest against Koch brothers in R ...
    Environmentalists, labor union members and liberal activists across Southern California are mounting a protest Sunday in Rancho Mirage against billionaire "tea party" funders Charles and David Koch and their semiannual confab of conservative activists. The brothers, who own oil refineries...
  • West Coast senators push Pacific shore drilling ba ...
    “One of the lessons learned from the disastrous BP oil spill is that without a fundamental transformation of the oil industry, another spill is possible, even likely,’’ said Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), one of the sponsors.
  • Federal agencies to align with California on new c ...
    DOT, California's CARB and EPA pair up on release date for clean car proposals
  • China leapfrogs U.S. wind power industry, American ...
    Chinese turbines are now harnessing more wind power than machines installed in the U.S., according to a trade group Monday. For the first time ever, the Asian giant’s capacity –- the amount of electricity that can be generated using wind...

water.org

  • Water.org ensuring the right to clean water (ABC)
    Ensuring the Right to Clean Water, One Bottle at a Time: Matt Damon and water.org team up to end the global water crisis (ABC News) – Water.Org gives grants in 14 countries (with Haiti most recently added) utilizing the innovation of a micro-finance model called âwater creditâ. Using the power of th ...
  • Votes are in from Lowe’s Giving Campaign (Bu ...
    The Votes Are in: America Shows Its Love for National Parks, but Everyone Wins in Loweâs First Online Giving Campaign (Business Wire) MOORESVILLE, N.C. – Loweâs and the Loweâs Charitable and Educational Foundation are distributing grants totaling $1 million to the four charities that participated in ...
  • Hult Global Case Challenge video (Hult)
    Official Hult Global Case Challenge video 2011 (Hult) - The Hult Global Case Challenge is an international case competition that is open to all university and college students from around the world. On March 5th 2011 in partnership with Water.org, we will hold Regional events in five major cities ac ...
  • Matt Damon recognized for Water.org (MTV)
    Matt Damon Recognized At Critics’ Choice Awards For Water.org Charity (MTV) – Damon was given the fourth annual Joel Siegel Award for Service to the Community. While Kimmel provided comic relief, joking that the Oscar winner is “the greatest guy in the world,” the actor received serious accolades fo ...
  • Matt Damon receives Joel Siegel Award (VH1)
    Joel Siegel Award – Matt Damon (VH1) – Video of Matt Damon receiving the Joel Siegel Critics Choice Movie Award. Video Link. Critics’ Choice |Movie Awards |Critics’ Choice Video |Celebrity News

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Not worth the paper they're printed on
    A series of core documents of the Palestine Papers shows just how far the Obama administration has been willing to go to satisfy Israel -- to the point of abandoning prior pledges, international agreements, and American principles.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! � ...
  • "We want the government to hang people who promote ...
    "Brenda is welcome in Uganda if she will abandon or repent her behaviour," Mr. Bahati tells the U.K. Guardian. "Here in Uganda, homosexuality is not a human right. It is behaviour that is learned and it can be unlearned.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Protesters march in attempt to force Yemen's presi ...
    Authorities arrested Tawakkol Karman over the weekend, accusing her of organizing anti-government protests in Sanaa. They let her go after more than 5,000 protesters gathered in her support.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • IDF commander involved in shooting bound Palestini ...
    Despite prosecution's request for active prison service, IDF court rules Lt. Col. Omri Burberg will not be eligible for an upgrade in military rank for two years and cannot serve in a commander position for one.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Israel will never get a better deal than the one i ...
    And yes to what? To continuing the occupation, perpetuating the conflict. From now on we can say to our children: For Har Homa we'll continue living on the edge of the volcano. That is the terrible truth. The settlers have vanquished Israel.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • IKEA Continues to Grow Solar
    Furniture manufacturing giant IKEA is known for providing affordable furnishing. Its global presence has been marked by big blue warehouse sized stores with yellow trim. The Swedish company is working to also be known for its sustainabl ...
  • Second Largest Solar PV Installation On U.S. East ...
    Fifteen months after signing a power purchase agreement with Duke Energy Corp., in August 2009, SunEdison LLC began construction on a photovoltaic (PV) solar farm in Davidson County, North Carolina. read more
  • U.S. DOE Campus Going Solar
    Over the last two weeks the United States Department of Energy (DOE) has been busy dolling out loan guarantees for renewable energy projects including its most recent loan guarantee offer of US$967 million for what will be the largest p ...
  • E•BOOM CAPITAL: Solar Stocks Continue to Leave Bro ...
    Solar tech company GT Solar International, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOLR) Solar power technology companies continued this week to lead the overall green indices and ETFs as well as t ...
  • U.S. Government Backs Largest PV Solar Installatio ...
    Last month NRG Energy Inc. (NYSE: NRG) conditionally agreed to acquire the Aqua Caliente Solar project in Arizona from First Solar Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR). read more

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