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IPS - Inter Press Services

• Torn Egypt Resigned to Sudan Split
  Egypt, now itself torn by strife, has worked since 2005 to promote the unity of Sudan, Africa's largest country that is its neighbour to the south. But after overwhelming support for independence for southern Sudan, Egyptians are now preparing to accept partition.
• Headscarf Returns to Trouble Turkey
  A ruling by an administrative court banning female candidates for academic posts from being veiled during an admission examination has brought the headscarf back to the front of Turkish politics, and reignited tensions between secularist and religious forces.
• TAIWAN: Media Fights Propaganda Masked as News
  A coalition of journalist and civic organizations is waging a campaign to rid the Taiwan media of government propaganda masquerading as news, and signs are that the campaign has taken "the first steps" towards victory.
• Serbs Turn Back to Arms for Money
  A long-running joke in Serbia goes that the country's most successful export products are berries, grains, maize, and world-renowned tennis players like Novak Djokovic and Jelena Jankovic.
• EGYPT: ‘Planned Anarchy' Playing Into Mubara ...
  The city squares where protesters battled riot police for four consecutive days were unexpectedly quiet late Sunday night, as Egyptians fighting to topple the Mubarak regime returned home to defend their neighbourhoods from looters and thugs.

Scoop - NZ

• CDS: The loneliness of Silvio B.
  Why, at 74 years of age, is the leader of a Western country embarrassing himself and his country and getting caught up in scandals that undermine his power and authority? And why haven’t the Italians given him the boot yet? The answer lies in a national penchant for exhibitionism whose roots go back ...
• Fabius Maximus on the riots in Egypt
  The events in Egypt are complex; accurate forecasting is not possible.  But we can look through the fog generated by the news media (remember Hurricane Katrina?) to see some simple and important facts, and make some likely guesses.  
• Egypt and Tunisia usher in the new era of global f ...
  Political risk has returned with a vengeance. The first food revolutions of our Malthusian era have exposed the weak grip of authoritarian regimes in poor countries that import grain, whether in North Africa today or parts of Asia tomorrow.
• AEP: S&P downgrades Japan
  Standard & Poor's has downgraded Japan for the first time in nine years, citing lack of a "coherent strategy" to control its monster deficits or grasp the nettle to reform.
• Out of Africa via Arabia
  An ancient toolkit unearthed in the United Arab Emirates suggests modern humans may have left Africa more than 100,000 years ago, much earlier than typically thought, say researchers.

Independent - London

• Suicide bomber kills Pakistan police chief
  A suicide car bomber attacked a vehicle carrying a senior Pakistani police official in the north-western city of Peshawar today, killing him and two others, said police.
• Pop star jailed over home-made sex tapes
  An Indonesian pop star who rocked the predominantly Muslim nation after several home-made sex tapes found their way to the internet was sentenced today to three and a half years in jail.
• Karzai choice for parliament accused of human righ ...
  The man who is held responsible by the UN and human rights activists for the massacre and rape of ethnic Hazaras during Afghanistan's civil war is leading the race to become the new speaker in the Afghan parliament - and has President Hamid Karzai's backing.
• Chirac lawyers to cite Alzheimer's in attempt to p ...
  Former French president Jacques Chirac may have Alzheimer's disease – raising doubts over his capacity to face a corruption trial next month – a Paris newspaper said yesterday.
• Burmese parliament spells out its new 'democracy' ...
  Beneath the tiered roofs of Burma's ornate new parliament building in its remote capital, Naypyidaw, lawmakers will gather today for their first taste of "disciplined democracy" as prescribed by the country's military rulers.

Rogue Government.com

• Egypt shutdown worst in Internet history: experts
  The scale of Egypt's crackdown on the Internet and mobile phones amid deadly protests against the rule of President Hosni Mubarak is unprecedented in the history of the web, experts said.
• How To Foil A Nationwide Internet Shutdown
• Blood Tests Show Chemicals In Gulf Citizens Blood, ...
• Great Pyramid May Hold Two Hidden Chambers
  A French architect campaigning for a new exploration of the 4,500-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza said on Thursday that the edifice may contain two chambers housing funereal furniture.
• Medical examiner: Homicide victim John Wheeler die ...
  Homicide victim John P. Wheeler III, a former Pentagon official and presidential aide whose body was discovered Dec. 31 in a Wilmington landfill, was beaten to death in an assault, the Delaware medical examiner’s office announced today.

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

• More snow? Next storm takes aim at Northeast
  There's more snow heading to the Northeast and it's expected to impact as many as 29 states. This new snow system is being called one of the more significant systems of the season. Some state averages and current measured snow fall measures: New York Average 22" currently has seen over 45 inches. ...
• Shinmoedake Peak in Japan Erupts Dramatically with ...
  Shinmoedake Peak in Japan erupted last January 26, 2011, and alert level was raised to 3 as of January 27, 2011. This is because the volcano spurted lava, 2.5 km into the air. The volcanic eruption was accompanied with powerful lightning display and lava ejections, sending residents within 1.2 mile ...
• What School Lunch in France Can Teach us Back Home ...
  Poached cod and potatoes with lemon butter, sautéed haricot verts, and fresh avocado -- sound like a meal from Heartland or Spoonriver? Well, that's what I had for lunch recently at College Simin de Palay, a junior high school in the town of Lescar, France. And as good as the meal sounds, the story ...
• Jordan's powerful Muslim opposition warns that Ara ...
  Amman, Jordan - The leader of Jordan's powerful Muslim Brotherhood warned Saturday that unrest in Egypt will spread across the Mideast and Arabs will topple leaders allied with the United States. Hammam Saeed's comments were made at a protest outside the Egyptian Embassy in Amman, inspired by mas ...
• Australia: Floodwaters arrive at Swan Hill
  The floodwaters moving through north-west Victoria are starting to arrive at Swan Hill. The State Emergency Service (SES) has moved its incident control centre to Swan Hill and says the flood waters started to reach the city late yesterday. The Murray River is expected to reach minor flood level ...

The Galloping Beaver

• And the world changed . . .
  JANUARY 26, 1983: Lotus begins selling its spreadsheet application for Microsoft DOS, called 1-2-3 and how business is run changed forever. The advent of 1-2-3 and cheap PC's allowed the re-organization of business world-wide. For example, their appearance allowed all the contracting-out that starte ...
• Advice for graduate students and those pondering t ...
  1. When looking for supervisors, look beyond any mutual interests an their publication records. Ask about their supervision record. If they are new or have no students, be cautious in how you approach them. Try to get a sense for how they might be as supervisors as much as you can before you commit ...
• Advice for graduate student supervisors
  Not exhaustive by any stretch but rooted in observations here over the past few years... 1. Don't ever lie to your student. Lying is not pedagogy or mentorship. When the student finds out about the lie, your relationship with that student is forever poisoned. They may not tell you they found out, ...
• Wanker!
  What Impolitical finds on the intertoobs.
• Perspectives . . .
  WARNING: Not politically-correct. May cause tighty-whitey-wedgie in the hard-of-thinking.

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

• The Middle East at a Strategic Crossroads: Threat ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Can the Palestinian Authority survive?
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Egypt's Rising Food Prices: The Economic Crisis Is ...
  EGYPT, DON’T BE GYPED:
• Egyptian Uprising Must Address U.S Interference an ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Washington's Plan B: Why Obama Fears Democracy in ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• How a Story Seduced the Right Wing
  The two other Michaels participating in this book club have offered two reasons for the growth of right-wing paranoia. Michael Maiello argued that economic frustration has led people to conclude that someone is stacking the decks against them, while Michael Orion Powell proposed that the decline of ...
• Omar Suleiman: Egypt's Own George Mitchell
  Al Jazeera's video of Egypt President Hosni Mubarak swearing in intelligence chief Omar Suleiman as the first vice president of Egypt in nearly three decades has many clamoring to learn whatever they can about this person who may actually succeed Mubarak. Suleiman, one of the long-serving nationa ...
• Can We Take Away Alan Greenspan's Pension?
  Joe Nocera gets most of the story right in his discussion of the Financial Crisis Inquiry's Commission's (FCIC) report today. There was gross negligence, greed, and outright fraud, but none of this would have lead to catastrophic consequences if we didn't have a housing bubble. (For that matter, hav ...
• Thank AIPAC For Placing USA On Wrong Side In Egypt
  If one needs additional proof that the "pro-Israel" lobby and the policies it dictates to US policymakers are bad for both the U.S. and Israel, look no further than what is happening in Egypt. The regime that the Israeli government and its U.S. lobby have depended upon to enforce the status quo i ...
• 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 ...

TruthOut

• TomGram: Robert Lipsyte, the Empire Bowl is Super!
  My father took me to Ebbets Field for my first football game -- in the snow -- in perhaps 1950. The Brooklyn Brooks of the old American Football League were playing some team I no longer remember. In fact, I have only the haziest memory of that moment. Still, I was hooked. The Brooks weren’t lon ...
• ElBaradei, Muslim Brotherhood Offer Political Path ...
  Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader Essam el-Eryan said today that Egyptian opposition groups have agreed to back former IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei to negotiate with the government, Al Jazeera�reports: Egypt's opposition groups have agreed to support opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei to negotia ...
• The Wrong Friends: The Uncomfortable Lesson of the ...
  In a region prone to religious violence and sorely lacking in democratic government, the thinking goes, it is secular regimes that hold the most promise for change, and have been the easiest for us to support. Though perhaps never stated in such simple terms, this thinking underlies much of our dipl ...
• The Right to a Future
  Are we tweeting while Earth burns? Is climate collapse our new collective Titanic? How do we best describe the survival struggle of seven billion in a way that connects with the public and with decision makers? The science on global warming is clear and compelling. Earth is in serious climate crisi ...
• Farewell to Modernity in the New Age of Surveillan ...
  As has been said, probably rightly, the 19th century did not end until 1914, when the First World War broke out; similarly, the 20th century did not end on New Year's Eve 2000 or New Year's Day 2001, as the calendar would suggest, but continued for another few months. I daresay that the 20th century ...

Planetsave

• 5 UK Supermarket Chains Want CCTV Cameras & Indepe ...
  I covered the utter cruelty on show in UK slaughterhouses a couple times a couple months ago when reporting on Animal Aid’s thorough investigation of the matter and their videos from secret fly-on-the wall cameras. From that investigation and increasing activism, more and more companies and people i ...
• Animal Cruelty Continues, 2 Men Watch Their Dogs M ...
  Truly, it is hard to understand the insensitivity, lack of compassion, and utter cruelty that allow or stimulate such human actions. How can we even call ourselves intelligent beings? Here’s a full repost from the League Against Cruel Sports on a horrible incident in the UK and commentary on what ac ...
• Greenpeace Crashes Koch Brothers’ Semi-Secret Part ...
  The Koch brothers were not very well known a few years ago, despite being two of the richest people in America (tied for 5th now). They liked it like that. They could pour money into politics and climate science disinformation campaigns without any notice. But that recently changed. More and more of ...
• 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 ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Yay, No Government Regulations: We love poison wat ...
  Yay, Alabama...Clean water...maybe. The Environmental Working Group releases the first nationwide st
• Probable carcinogen hexavalent chromium found in d ...
  Probable carcinogen hexavalent chromium found in drinking water of 31 U.S. cities via Probable carci
• Waterdog Training January 10th 2011
  Waterdogs Training Monday, January 10th, 2011 7:00-9:00pm Jersey Shore Middle School Library Registr
• Summary Report for Sub-Sea and Sub-Surface Oil and ...
  Operational Science Advisory Team, Unified Area Command; prepared for Paul F. Zukunft, RADM, U. S. C
• A Well-Earned MPA Victory!
  After years of debate, Point Dume has been designated as a Marine Protected Area by the state of Cal

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Exclusive: Why is there no peace in the peace move ...
  photo by Dandelion Salad by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) R
• Time Of Lone Wolf Is Over by Bruce Gagnon
  by Bruce Gagnon featured writer Dandelion Salad Organizing Notes January 3, 2011 Image by Dandelion
• "The Left Has Nowhere to Go" by Chris Hedges
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig January 3, 2011 Image by Dandelion Salad vi
• Re-creating Revolutionary Communities (Part I) by ...
  by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbo
• Pentagon And NATO Apply Afghanistan-Pakistan War M ...
  by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism J

Axis of Logic

• Turning the tide in Lebanon: Hariri's out, Mikati ...
  Background - Quote from Canada Free Press: "Last week, 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 Washi ...
• Opposition leader back in Tunisia - World News
  The leader of al-Nahda, a previously banned party in Tunisia, is back in the country after 22 years in exile. Hundreds of people were at the main airport in Tunis to welcome Rachid Ghannouchi as he arrived from London on Sunday. Al Jazeera...
• Mubarak gives army shoot-to-kill order - World New ...
  Editor's Note: Mubarak has given the orders, "shoot to kill" in the mounting protests against his regime but according to Axis of Logic's correspondent in Cairo, Anna Massry, the military is refusing to shoot their own people - the Egyptian people. As a result, Mubarak has recalled his police thugs. ...
• ElBaradei: No going back in Egypt - World News
  Nobel laureate tells defiant Cairo crowd that he has a mandate to negotiate with Mubarak government. Mohamed ElBaradei, a leading opposition figure, has joined thousands of protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square, in continued demonstrations demanding an end to Pr ...
• U.S. Former Pentagon Official & Presidential Beate ...
  Medical examiner: Homicide victim John Wheeler died of 'blunt force trauma'. Toxicology "didn't play a role" in his death, officials said. Homicide victim John P. Wheeler III, a former Pentagon official and presidential aide whose body was discovered Dec. 31 in a Wilmington landfill, was be ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• The Confederacy: In Their Own Words
  From Tristero: Digby's recent post debunking the latest bullshit from the right wing about slavery and the Founders reminded me that I wanted to let the hive mind know about a fantastic blog at the NY Times called Disunion which is a daily retelling of the Civil War 150 years later. There is a terri ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  150 dead, thousands wounded, still not giving up. "Leading Egyptian opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei has joined thousands of protesters in Cairo defying a curfew to demand President Mubarak stand down. Addressing the crowd in Tahrir (Liberation) Square, the Nobel peace prize winner urged patience ...
• New Day in Egypt; New Al-Jazeera Live Blog
  Click here to follow. 12:23am The atmosphere in central Cairo remains chaotic, according to a tweet from one of the Al Jazeera correspondents in Cairo: Tense in Tahrir Square tonight. Random gunfire nearby; some people in the square are blaming the army for it, verbally confronting soldiers. 12:14a ...
• How To Get Away With Murder? Be a Big Assed Energ ...
  Old Don Blankenship is gone as of some time last month, apparently forced out by a board of directors just as greedy and amoral as he was. � Surely you remember the former CEO of Massey Energy, a militant enemy of any form of government regulation and a fervent right wing "patriot" who loved and hon ...
• How Full Employment Depends on Strong Unions
  That union membership and the availability of secure, well-paid, good-benefit jobs have declined together over the last 40 years is not a coincidence. Strong unions mean lots of good jobs. Kevin Drum explains how that works, even today: Mike Konczal argues that strong labor unions and full employme ...

Care 2

• Obama seeks new path to environmental goals
  Facing a Congress that is more hostile to environmental regulation, President Barack Obama is moderating his environmental goals: a clean energy standard that mixes nuclear, natural gas and "clean coal" with renewable sources such as wind and solar. Submitted by Tammy Eiland to Green Lifestyle �|� ...
• After 2 Years, A Dog Still Waits for His Own Home
  St Louis, MO - Some dogs don't make it out of the shelter alive. Others are pulled and find their way immediately to a new family. Then there are the few that make their way to a rescue, but somehow get stalled there...forgotten. Baron is a forgotten dog.Submitted by Marilyn M. to Animals �|� �Note ...
• Ambam Gorilla - Walks On Two Legs
  Gorilla was a big hit on the Internet. The male, nicknamed Ambam part of a group of gorillas, endangered species. He is now contained in the wildlife park at Port Lympne, Kent, England. Submitted by . to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Bachmann eyes cuts to veterans health benefits
  Tea party hero Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) this week proposed a blueprint to eliminate $400 billion from the federal budget, which included billions in cuts to veterans' health care and disability benefits.Submitted by Melva H. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Evansville Police are looking for a suspect they b ...
  A witness told police the suspect swerved several times on U.S. 41 then tossed a white dog out of the drivers side window.the dog landed on the pavement and was immediately struck by another vehicle and killed. 1991 red Mazda, with an IN. plate 169809Submitted by Craig M. to Animals �|� �Note-it! � ...

Smirking Chimp

• Reagan's 'Tear Down This Wall' Myth
• The New Face of Big Brother?
• Atlas Shrugged, eyed nearest exit
• The imperial war presidency
• The Navy's Advertising Budget

Paul Krugman

• The Manila Parallel
  People power, redux?
• Transformational Technologies
  Lincoln's singularity.
• Recessions Under the Gold Standard
  They were big and ugly.
• The Kitchen Test
  The future isn't what it used to be.
• This Age of Rubber
  Where the big price hikes are.

No Quarter

• The Left’s Idiocy and Ignorance on Egypt
  Watching several left of center pundits and so-called experts grow misty eyed at the “people’s revolution” in Egypt and calling for the quick expulsion of Husni Mubarak from office is a tangible reminder of why these people can’t be trusted to hold any position where the security of America is at st ...
• Between The Sheets Open Thread
  I’m inserting tonight’s open thread in between the strong posts by Reverend Amy and Larry Johnson. Enjoy! I have a non-political video for you, although there’s a metaphor in it, albeit a truly corny one. Thanks to Reverend Amy for finding this video and sharing it with me! I loved it, since I love ...
• Looters And Vandals Break Into The Museum Of Egypt ...
  As the riots continue to rage in Cairo, and other parts of Egypt, one of their targets was the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities (aka, Cairo National Museum): I had the opportunity to go to the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities back in April, 2009 (I still have my ticket stub, too. It is beautiful.). It i ...
• How Much Do We Trust Our Banks, Media, and Governm ...
  If you do not trust an individual, a company, an industry, or any entity, how can you really do business with them? At the very least, how or why would you want to engage them? The simple fact is without trust, nobody really wants to engage. Why are banks, the media, and our government finding [...]
• Hillary on All Five Sunday News Shows
  I just heard that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will appear on all five major TV news shows Sunday. I hope that many of you can catch some of her appearances, and share what she says as well as your impressions. As they become available, we’ll add videos and/or transcripts/news stories of her a ...

Environmental Graffiti

• 5-ft Monitor Lizard Found Wandering the Streets of ...
  What if you find a 5-foot monitor lizard, hissing and walking like a king down the sidewalk near your house? Read more..... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 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

Foreign Policy in Focus

• As Egypt Protesters Look to U.S. in Vain, Remember ...
  U.S. support for dictators is nothing new, of course.
• Iran, the New York Times and the Laws of Physics
  According to the Times, Iran is on the threshold of producing weapons-grade fuel.
• Egypt Protests Shine Light on How U.S. Profits Fro ...
  Most U.S. foreign aid is not meant to address poverty.
• How Lebanon Got So Complicated
  Lebanon's complexity can be sorted out when viewed through the lens of history.
• Discouraging Civilian Cooperation With Counterterr ...
  The cure may be worse than the disease.

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K Gov ...
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will be c ...
• President European Commission Advocated World Gove ...
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International Affa ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Current C ...
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in the d ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of a G ...
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare progr ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’s p ...

Al Jazeera

• 'Mega protest' planned in Egypt
  Opposition movement calls for one "million people demonstration" on Tuesday in a bid to topple president Hosni Mubarak.
• 'Anxious' Israel backs Egypt regime
  As US and EU leaders urge Egypt to reform in face of popular uprising, Israel voices support for Mubarak's government.
• Egyptian financial crisis looms
  Investors transferred hundreds of millions of dollars out of the country since the start of the protests a week ago.
• Opposition leader back in Tunisia
  Rachid Ghannouchi, leader of the previously banned al-Nahda party, returns to native Tunisia after 22 years in exile.
• Blasts hit northern Pakistan
  Senior police officer among at least five killed in two separate attacks near the city of Peshawar, officials say.

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

• Sustain What?
  Why it's important to recall that sustainability is an adjective.
• Can the Asian Boom Save Room for Tigers?
  A new analysis of tiger conservation plans stresses the need to maintain corridor between refuges as Asia's building boom plays out.
• Obama's Climate Speech
  How Obama can build on his State of the Union message with a speech explaining why an energy quest is necessary.
• When a (CO2) Solution is Ahead of the Problem
  A businessman offers a real-world strategy for engaging the public on responding to the risks attending global warming.
• On Hollywood, HIV, Alcohol and Warming
  Can Hollywood do for global warming what it's done for diabetes and HIV?

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Rock the Casbah
  Been watching somewhat in awe, a bit suspicious of the usual suspects & color revolution schemes, but with warmest regards to Egyptians fighting for their rights & giving their lives on the streets. One song says it all: Rock the Casbah This vid is probably the winner though the music is schmaltzy ...
• 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 ...

Daily Censored

• Save our Schools schedules rally!
  Grassroots âSave Our Schoolsâ March on Washington & National Call to Action on July 28-31 This grassroots movement of teachers, parents, students, community activists, and âeveryday working peopleâ has been endorsed by educational voices like Diane Ravitch, Deborah Meier, Alfie Kohn, Joel Spring, Re ...
• There Must Be Something In The Water
  “Survival, How Hard Can It Be? Part 2″ was going to be the name of this installment.  However, I see that someone else on “Daily Censored” also appears to be calling for a revolution of sorts… Yesterday I wrote about the need to refocus our priorities on us.  Fighting wars, half way around the wor ...
• Open proposal for US revolution: end unlawful wars ...
  source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com âPassion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence.–Let those materials be moulded into general intelligence, sound moralit ...
• Egypt’s Struggle against US Funded Repression
  Egypt’s Struggle against US Funded Repression: Tales of US Sponsorship of Repressive Regimes By: Solomon Comissiong On January 25th, 2011 scores of Egyptians decided they were no longer going to tolerate widespread repression from the hands of their own government. This longstanding Egyptian governm ...
• Open proposal for US revolution: end unlawful wars ...
  source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com “Constitutional governments and aristocracies are commonly overthrown owing to some deviation from justice…the rich, if the constitution gives them power, are apt to be insolent and avaricious… In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Veterans Slam Rep. Bachmann’s P ...
• Black Fraternity Comes Out in Force for Their Undo ...
• Sundance film shows corporate influence on justice
• Top cleric urges 'blind, deaf, dumb' Mubarak to go
• Salary triples for Goldman CEO Blankfein

Institute for Policy Studies

• What if Jared Loughner Were a Muslim Arab Immigran ...
  What if the alleged gunman in Tucson were named Ali Mohammed instead of Jared Lee Loughner?
• Trade Agreements and Capital Controls
  It's time for the Obama administration to change course and allow governments to use capital controls as part of a broader menu of policy options to curb financial volatility.
• Economists Unite Around Once-Demonized Capital Con ...
  In our globalized financial system, chaos in one part of the world can be devastating for businesses and workers elsewhere.
• More than 250 Economists Call for Trade Reforms to ...
  While no panacea, they are legitimate policy tools for preventing and mitigating financial crises.
• 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.

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.
• LATEST* The Equality Trust in the News
  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

• FDA 483 Report of Sprouter's Northwest Salmonella ...
  Seven people in Oregon and Washington became ill with Salmonella in January after eating the Sprouter’s Northwest clover sprouts. The company subsequently recalled all its sprouts. A few days ago the FDA released 483 Inspection Report of the Sprouter’s Northwest facility. Failure to take necess ...
• FDA 483 Report of Sprouter's Northwest Salmonella ...
  Seven people in Oregon and Washington became ill with Salmonella in January after eating the Sprouter’s Northwest clover sprouts. The company subsequently recalled all its sprouts. A few days ago the FDA released 483 Inspection Report of the Sprouter’s Northwest facility. Failure to take necess ...
• 248 arrested in China for food safety violations i ...
  According to Chinese press reports, a total of 248 people were arrested in China last year for involvement in food safety cases, food safety authorities said Sunday. The country dealt with 130,000 cases involving food safety last year, including 115 criminal cases, according to a statement of the N ...
• Dubai International Food Safety Conference - Febru ...
  I just got my Visa back to attend this Dubai conference to give a speech entitled: “Reducing the Burden of Foodborne Diseases - Is the Food Industry Doing its Best?” I am taking a side trip through Istanbul on the way to Dubai.  You should download the brochure.
• Grocery Manufacturers Association - Emerging Trend ...
  On February 22, 2011, I will be headlining with Al Maxwell, Esq., Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial at the GMA Food Claims and Litigation Conference. According to the brochure - In this session, the top plaintiff and defense attorneys in the foodborne illness litigation arena will discuss r ...

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

• How to hitch a ride to space (for your satellite)
  Earth2Orbit will sell you the right to have your small satellite stow away on an Indian launch vehicle.
• The robotics route to medical renewal
  A demonstration day at Kaiser Permanente offers a look at robotic legs for those who can't walk, arms for those who can't lift, and forceps for surgeons who can't be in the operating room. ...
• TripIt finds buyer, moves up-market
  Handy traveler's helper app, never a standalone business, finds a good fit in its buyer.
• AR.Drone lesson: Don't dogfight in a Wi-Fi war zon ...
  A demo of an iPhone-controlled helicopter goes wrong as the drone smacks into a CES attendee's head. Originally posted at CES 2011
• Yahoo pumps up Connected TV; D-Link announces box ...
  Yahoo has updated its TV widget platform, but does it make sense for it to get its own set-top box?

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!

• Live From Egypt: The Rebellion Grows StrongerBy ...
  Cairo, Egypt—In the second day of defiance of a military curfew, more than 150,000 protesters packed into Tahrir Square Sunday to call on President Hosni Mubarak to step down. The mood was celebratory and victorious. For most, it was not a question of if, but when, Mubarak would leave. Military ta ...
• Live From the Egyptian Revolutionby Sharif Abdel ...
  Cairo, Egypt—I grew up in Egypt. I spent half my life here. But Saturday, when my plane from JFK airport touched down in Cairo, I arrived in a different country than the one I had known all my life. This is not Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt anymore and, regardless of what happens, it will never be again. ...
• Day 5 of the Egyptian Uprising: Ahmad Shokr Report ...
  Posted on Saturday at 7:07 p.m. EST In his second report today from Cairo, newspaper editor Ahmad Shokr recaps the latest developments in Egypt: the rising death toll, the continuation of mass street protests, and Hosni Mubarak’s decision to name Omar Suleiman, the head of the country’s intelligen ...
• Democracy Now!'s Sharif Kouddous on the Ground in ...
  new TWTR.Widget({ version: 2, type: 'search', search: ' from:sharifkouddous', interval: 6000, title: 'Democracy Now!'s Sharif Kouddous', subject: 'On the Ground in Egypt', width: 400, height: 800, theme: { shell: { background: '#990000', color: ...
• Audio Report From Cairo: Egyptian Protesters Renew ...
  Ahmad Shokr, an editor at the Egyptian daily newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm, files a report from Cairo on Saturday morning, day five of the largest anti-government protests in Egypt in decades. Download MP3 of report RUSH TRANSCRIPT AHMAD SHOKR : After a day of unprecedented mass rallies ...

Digg Green

• Scientists reveal key mechanism governing nic ...
  Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have identified a pathway in the brain that regulates an individual's vulnerability to the addictive properties of nicotine. The findings suggest a new target for anti-smoking therapies.
• APOD: 2011 January 30 - Gibbous Europa
  Although the phase of this moon might appear familiar, the moon itself might not. In fact, this gibbous phase shows part of Jupiter's moon Europa. The robot spacecraft Galileo captured this image mosaic during its mission orbiting Jupiter from 1995 - 2003. Visible are plains of bright ice, crac ...
• Model predicts 'religiosity gene' will domina ...
  (PhysOrg.com) -- In the past 20 years, the Amish population in the US has doubled, increasing from 123,000 in 1991 to 249,000 in 2010. The huge growth stems almost entirely from the religious cultures high fertility rate, which is about 6 children per woman, on average. At this rate, the Amish ...
• New Discovery: Prehistoric Body Clock in Huma ...
  The mechanism that controls the internal 24-hour clock of all forms of life from human cells to algae has been identified by scientists at the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh. The circadian clock arose early in the evolution of life....
• The power of spin
  Supermasssive black holes - objects with masses of millions or billions of suns - are found at the nuclei of dramatic galaxies like quasars where they are responsible for some of the most spectacular phenomena in the cosmos.

Invisible Opportunity

• You Can’t be There if You’re not Here
  By Les Visible Remember when you used to walk into a bus kiosk or a subway station and you needed to figure out where you were before you tried to go anywhere? There used to be these maps that had an arrow pointing at a spot, with a little dialogue box next to it that [...]
• 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

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

• Legalizing Pot -- Is It Just a Matter of When?
  Why California may have broken the prohibition barrier.
• Marijuana & Drug War Questions Dominate Obama' ...
  Obama advocated for "shifting resources" away from incarcerations of "nonviolent, first time drug offenders."
• Reagan Turning 100: Fawning Media Ignore His Disas ...
  Ronald Reagan's harsh drug policies not only exploded the prison population, he also blocked programs that could have prevented hundreds of thousands of AIDS deaths.
• U.S. Rejects Indigenous Rights in Favor of Failed ...
  Why is the United States formally objecting to Bolivia's request to the UN to allow its ancestral practice of coca leaf chewing?
• Reagan Turns 100: Fawning Media Ignore His Disastr ...
  Ronald Reagan's harsh drug policies not only exploded the prison population, he also blocked programs that could have prevented hundreds of thousands of AIDS deaths.

Twilight Earth

• 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 ...
• 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 ...

Inhabitat

• Lunar Cubit: Gigantic Solar Pyramids to Power Abu ...
  The motto of these sleek black pyramids is âRenewable Energy Can Be Beautiful.â No, the Luxor Casino in Las Vegas did not suddenly develop a green streak — the project, called Lunar Cubit, is a pyramid-shaped solar power complex designed to power thousands of homes in the Abu Dhabi desert. Read the ...
• Woolrich and Agion Will Launch a New Line of Odor ...
  Any outdoorsman (and woman!) knows that roughing it with Mother Nature can quickly give way to a curious stink synonymous with the wild. But if you’re an adventurer who’s hoping to save yourself from the overwhelming stench of outdoor sweat and toil, you’ll be happy to know that Woolrich (âThe Orig ...
• VIDEO: Grow a Treehouse with Terreform
  We love treehouses here at Inhabitat and are enamored with eco-architect Mitchell Joachim’s visionary ideas about how to grow living treehouses from ficus molded around frame structures. We’ve covered these playful architectural ideas before on Inhabitat, but now we have a video from Mitchell Joachi ...
• You Have Less Than 24 Hours to Enter the Wild Ener ...
  Hey green design super heroes! Want to make a positive green design difference to one of the last, great untouched and natural places of the world? The Wild Energy Competition is giving you twenty four hours to save New Zealand’s wild rivers and change the course of their power generation history fo ...
• Would You Wear the Same Jeans for a Year Without W ...
  College students are well known for their questionable hygiene, particularly when it comes to clean laundry their first year in. Not yet ready for the world of responsibility University of Alberta student Josh Le wore his tight-fitting raw-denim jeans every day for 15 months and one week, after jus ...

Pogue's Posts

• A Conclusion on Occlusion
  David Pogue gets a lesson on word usage.
• Appendix: Apps for Free Calls to Regular Phones
  There are indeed apps that let you make free WiFi calls to any domestic phone number from your cellphone-if you can live with a stack of footnotes.
• First, the Bad News
  Two announcements this week. Two big bummers. Two good things gone.
• The Arrival of the Verizon iPhone
  It'll be a wild ride now that the Verizon iPhone is here. Finally.
• C.E.S.: A Bad Time to Introduce a Tech Product
  Why do companies come to C.E.S. hoping for journalistic attention? There are just too many products announced at the show.

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

• Get Internet Access When Your Government Shuts It ...
  Does your government have an Internet kill-switch? Read our guide to Guerrilla Networking and be prepared for when the lines get cut.
• Video: Unknown Light Object Landed and Tookoff in ...
  Recent UFO video of strange unknown light in the sky over Jerusalem in Israel. This video was recorded on Friday, 28th January 2011 around 1 am. Witness report: This morning around 01:00 AM at the promenade of Armon Hantziv in Jerusalm, i was witness(with another guy), an amazing ufo aircraft over J ...
• Zeitgeist 3: Moving Forward (full length movie 201 ...
  Peter Joseph third movie in Zeitgeist. The official Zeitgeist Moving Forward takes on the human behaviour, the economic system and finally the solution with everything, the Venus project. Released on 27-28th of January 2011. The final full movie in the Zeitgeist documentary, conspiracy. The follow u ...
• The CIA’s Role in Egypt’s Regime Change? Who Is Om ...
  One of the “new” names being mentioned as a possible alternative to President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, Omar Suleiman, is actually not so new to anyone who has followed the American policy of renditions for terror suspects. After dissolving his cabinet yesterday, Mubarak appointed Suleiman vice-presid ...
• Planned Food Shortage In The US
  All indicators and market predictions point to April as the time when food prices rise so high here in the US few of us will be able to afford much of anything. With more than 22 million Americans out of work and only 1 job for every 5 applicants, home foreclosures still at an all time high and whi ...

Andy Worthington

• Andy Worthington Archived by the British Library&# ...
  I’m delighted to report that my website Andy Worthington has been chosen by the British Library as part of its UK Web Archive. As the curators explain: The UK Web Archive contains websites that publish research, that reflect the diversity of lives, interests and activities throughout the UK, and dem ...
• Press Conference on Guantánamo and Poland’s ...
  Event: Press conference with Moazzam Begg, Andy Worthington and Bartlomiej Jankowski, lawyer for CIA “ghost prisoner” Abu Zubaydah. Time: Tuesday February 1, 15:00 hrs. Venue: Kino Muranów, ul. Gen. Andersa 1 (Plac Bankowy, metro âRatuszâ), 00-147, Warszawa. Last week, it was announced that, from ...
• As Egyptians Call for Mubarak’s Fall, He App ...
  As the people of Egypt continue to show no willingness to tolerate any longer the 30-year dictatorship of President Hosni Mubarak, no one — least of all the Egyptian people — should be fooled into thinking that Mubarak’s response, appointing intelligence chief Omar Suleiman as his Vice President, co ...
• Video: “The Guantánamo Files” — ...
  On the last day of my recent US tour to raise awareness of the plight of the remaining 173 prisoners in Guantánamo on the 9th anniversary of the opening of the prison, I was invited to be the subject of a Press TV show entitled “The Autograph,” described as “a 25-minute weekly interview with academ ...
• 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• UFO-Like Clouds Linked to Military Maneuvers?
  Three "hole-punch clouds" recently appeared close together, sparking suspicions of a military connection—and they may not be all wrong.
• Gulf Spill Dispersants Surprisingly Long-lasting
  Massive amounts of chemical dispersants pumped into the Gulf of Mexico to break up the BP oil spill lingered in the deep ocean for months, new research shows.
• Humans Left Africa Earlier, During Ice Age Heat Wa ...
  An Ice Age heat wave gave early humans a route out of Africa much earlier than thought, an ancient tool kit and climate evidence suggest.
• Pictures: 40-Mile "Drape" to Cover U.S. River?
  NoneSee artist Christo's vision for a giant art installation over a Colorado river that has drawn opposition from a river-protection group.
• "Gooey" New Mud Volcano Erupts From Arabian Sea
  The "gooey" dot of land off the coast of Pakistan appeared in November but will likely wash away within a few months, experts say.

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

• Dearborn, Mich., Police Arrest Man in Apparent Mos ...
  A 63-year-old Southern California man who reportedly has “a long history of antigovernment activities” was arrested in a car laden with explosives outside one of the nation’s largest mosques, the authorities said Sunday. More than 500 members of the Dearborn, Mich., mosque were attending a funeral s ...
• White Supremacist Turned FBI Snitch Turner Sentenc ...
  The sentence wasn’t as harsh as he feared, but neo-Nazi blogger and shock-jock radio host Hal Turner will spend 25 months in prison worrying about white racists he believes will be eager to snuff him for having been an FBI informant. Turner, 48, whose vicious rhetoric was much admired among white su ...
• Bias-Crimes Cop Accuses Suffolk County Executive o ...
  Over the last several years, Suffolk County, N.Y., has been a hotbed of anti-Latino hate, a place that became infamous for the brutal murder of an Ecuadorian immigrant by a gang of white teens who were out for a night of âbeaner hopping.â County Executive Steve Levy has taken his share of criticism ...
• Investigators: White Power Guerrilla Manual Behind ...
  Two men charged with attempting to kill police officers in Hemet, Calif., used what prosecutors are calling a white power “guerrilla warfare manual” to guide a nine-month campaign of terror and violence against the police department, its buildings and vehicles. The anonymously written “White Resista ...
• Conspiracy Trial Opens for Pennsylvania Cops in Im ...
  WILKES-BARRE, Pa. â The federal trial of three police officers accused of trying to cover up the murder of an undocumented Mexican immigrant â a hate crime that drew the nationâs attention to violence against Hispanics two years ago â opened this week with a focus on the small Northeast Pennsylvania ...

change: org.

• No Citizenship for Nepali Orphans
  As I write this, Nepal is in the midst of a constitutional renovation which, the government contends, promises to grant more rights to its people. Yet the current draft of the Nepali constitution  contains draconian and dangerous birthright laws that threaten to strip thousands of Nepali children ...
• Victory for Lesbian Students in Minnesota
  That was quick. Just yesterday, I wrote about two lesbian students in Minnesota, who were selected as part of the "Royalty Court" by fellow students as part of the annual Snow Days pep fest, then told by the school that they could not walk together in the traditional procession as a couple, as roman ...
• News Wire Sensationalizes Corruption in AIDS Fund
  Where there’s corruption there’s probably a reporter to make it seem more pervasive than it actually is. Such is the case with a recent Associated Press (AP) report that claims “astonishing” levels of fraud in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS’s grantmaking. What’s astonishing, you may ask? To the AP, l ...
• Lab Monkeys on a Plane: Air Canada Supports Primat ...
  Last weekend, 48 monkeys were flown from China to Toronto via the cargo hold of an Air Canada jetliner. At Pearson Airport, they waited for more than 15 hours in their cramped wooden crates until a truck finally arrived to transport them to a research lab in Quebec. According to the Toronto Sun, the ...
• Guam Bill Could End Shark Fin and Manta Parts Trad ...
  Guam Vice Speaker BJ Cruz and Guam Natural Resources Committee Chair Senator Rory Respicio have introduced a bill that could make it illegal to possess or sell shark fins and manta parts in Guam. The bill is similar to the measure passed in the Northern Mariana Islands and follows Hawaii's decision ...

Common Dreams -News

• Revolution Is in the Air but US Sticks to Same Old ...
  by Paul McGeoughEvents in the Middle East are moving too fast for the Obama administration to think it can get away with Plan A and Plan B reaction strategies according to the regimes or leaders it wants to keep in and out of power.Consider the response of the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, ...
• Arctic Defrost Dumping Snow on U.S. and Europe
  by Stephen LeahyUXBRIDGE, Canada - The world's northern freezer is on rapid defrost as large volumes of warm water are pouring into the Arctic Ocean, speeding the melt of sea ice, according to a new study.Surface temperatures in parts of the Arctic have been 21 degrees C above normal for more than a ...
• Dems, GOP Overhaul Senate Rules
  Democratic and Republican leaders in the Senate have reached an agreement to overhaul the chamber's procedural rules. Senators will no longer be able to stall legislation by placing anonymous secret holds or by forcing the reading of amendments in their entirety. Democratic leaders had previously vo ...
• WikiLeaks Cables Show Close US Relationship With E ...
  by Luke HardingSecret US embassy cables sent from Cairo in the past two years reveal that the Obama administration wanted to maintain a close political and military relationship with the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, who is now facing a popular uprising.A frank briefing note in May 2009 ahead o ...
• New Agricultural Agreement in Argentina: A Land Gr ...
  What are the implications when one of China's most powerful agribusiness firms starts acquiring thousands of hectares of land in the Province of Rio Negro, Argentina for the production of soyabeans, wheat, and oilseed rape to ship back to China? What are the consequences for the local communi ...

Lifehacker

• DIY Lazy Susan Supply Organizer Keeps Office Suppl ...
  If you want to keep office supplies organized and at hand, even if your desk lacks for extensive storage, this simple Lazy Susan hack keeps all your supplies at your finger tips. More��
• Harvest Rain Water to Water Your Garden for Free [ ...
  If you've contemplated setting up a rain barrel but weren't sure where to start or how to properly maintain it this handy guide will help you get a low-maintenance system. More��
• Use a Paint Roller to Create Perfect Light Circles ...
  We highlighted some pretty clever light paintings and how to create them earlier this month. If you're looking for a way to make them less free form and more geometric this clever and inexpensive hack will help you "paint" circles. More�� ...
• Find Time for Your Personal Life and Get a Handle ...
  If you feel like you're working long and grueling hours with no personal time, you're not alone. Carve out vital personal time and continue climbing the ladder with these tips from career management professional Penelope Trunk. More�� ...
• We're All Smiles in This Week's Open Thread [Open ...
  Been a long week? Take a load off and practice your relaxation muscles in this week's open thread. More��

Water Privatization

• Labor group assails new water price hike
  ANTIPOLO City, Jan. 30, 2011—Militant labor center, Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU), assailed the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System’s (MWSS) approval of the 12 per cent hike on the water services by the Consunji (D.M. Consunji)-Pangilinan (Metro Pacific Investments Corp.)-owned, Maynilad Water Ser ...
• Water infrastructure requires immediate repairs
  America's water infrastructure is failing.
• Alliance says National privatization plans will hu ...
  The Alliance Party says most New Zealanders are opposed to privatization, but National will sell off assets to benefit its "friends" – the super rich and overseas corporations.
• New residence would help lure students to Trent: p ...
  Trent University's plan to allow a private company to build and operate a student residence on its property on Water St. was the subject of a public meeting Wednesday night at Trent.[...]
• State auditor criticizes Pike Co. utility for cont ...
  Mountain Water District, a public water and sewer utility in Pike County, has paid more than $36 mil

Guardian

• Egypt protests: change is coming, says ElBaradei
  Thousands rally in Cairo to defy curfew as Hillary Clinton calls on Hosni Mubarak to allow 'orderly transition'The Egyptian opposition leader, Mohamed ElBaradei, tonight predicted change within "the next few days" as western leaders pointedly declined to throw their support behind the country's emba ...
• Teen hacker who became an information war insurgen ...
  The colourful lives and experiences that shaped underground rebel Julian Assange on the road to WikiLeaks luminary �� Buy WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy hereGlimpsed in the half-light of a London evening, the figure may just have passed for female. She emerged cautiously from a d ...
• Police use CS spray on tax protesters
  UK Uncut activists hospitalised after targeting Boots in Oxford Street as part of latest day of actionTax avoidance protesters needed hospital treatment today after police used CS spray to break up a demonstration on Oxford Street in central London.Hundreds of people staged peaceful sit-ins at high ...
• Charity under fire over firm's profits
  Exclusive: Directors of Kettering Textiles Limited have earned almost £10m since 2008 through deal to run recycling banksThe Salvation Army is facing calls to explain how it allowed a private businessman to build a multimillion-pound personal fortune with profits from its charitable clothes recyclin ...
• Osborne warns unions over strikes
  �� Chancellor insists deficit-reduction strategy is right �� Ed Balls calls on government to think againGeorge Osborne today called unions the "forces of stagnation" and blamed them for holding back Britain's economic recovery.He warned that the government was preparing to draw up contingency plans ...

McClatchey

• Child of illegal immigrant caught in adoption figh ...
  In a small community in southwest Missouri, one little boy is torn between two families, two worlds.
• Missouri GOP tries to find opponent for Sen. McCas ...
  Call it musical chairs, Republican-style.
• S.C. lawmakers won't have special gun rights
  State lawmakers and other elected and appointed officials will not get special privileges to carry firearms while on state business.
• Kentucky immigration bill's practicality is questi ...
  FRANKFORT — A state lawmaker whose House committee this week will consider the Senate-passed bill designed to crack down on illegal immigrants said Sunday his panel will "give it a fair hearing, but we have a lot of questions about it."
• Egypt's Mubarak on the brink; ElBaradei demands 'n ...
  CAIRO, Egypt — Opposition figure Mohammed ElBaradei emerged from house arrest late Sunday to join throngs of protesters in central Cairo, echoing their demand that U.S.-allied President Hosni Mubarak resign and establishing himself as the face of Egypt's six-day pro-democracy uprising.

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

• Koch Industries: The 100-Million Ton Carbon Gorill ...
• Boehner Admits Failing To Raise Debt Ceiling Would ...
• Sponsor Of AZ Birthright Citizenship Seeks To Rede ...
• Rescuing Democracy Promotion From Cynics
• In Profound Denial, Chamber Of Commerce Lectures O ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Christie Belchforth's new book
  Saw a picture of Christie Belchforth the other day. Good god! She looks like the clearly demented hostess of an ancient children's program that's been running for decades too long. Anyway, apparently the idiot has produced a new book. In her own words, it's not about the merits of the Six Nations' ...
• Leftists are Nicer Than Rightists
  Just my contribution to our political tribalism! I'm sure that deluded right-wingers will take issue with this, but the reason why David Neiwert is able to find so many documented instances of far-right violent whack-jobs and why there have been so few documented left-wing, murderousl ...
• The Release of Alex Hundert
  He plead "guilty" to attending a panel discussion and there was other various and sundry dirty details but have no fear: I’ve had a long time to think about it, and I realised that I don’t really care how panel discussions are classified by the courts. What I care about is that we are able to defe ...
• New Site Added to Blog-roll
  I've added a few over the last week or so actually, and I intend to add s'more from people gracious enough to comment here. But I've been doing some research on Ipperwash and Caledonia and I very much like the site: Solidarity with Six Nations. Check 'em out!
• Mark My Words II
  Just a quick thought. If there turns out to be a massacre in Egypt, the fall-out will be similar to that which followed the Tiananmen Square massacre in the PRC: "Human Rights enhancement" marches on in parallel. In Part I, I reviewed Clinton's steps to evade congressional efforts to impo ...

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

• Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week
  Unlike last week, where we had one user dominate the favorite comments of the week (for both funny and insightful), this week it's back to a bit more normal, with the tops in each being separate. Leading the "insightful" crew (by a wide margin) was The Infamous Joe, whose comment on the story of Ph ...
• JohnJac's Favorite Posts Of The Weeks
  Last week JohnJac totally dominated the favorite comments, so we figured we might as well let him do the favorite posts of the week this week. I really, really, wanted this post to be funny and�optimistic.�However as I read Techdirt, it became clear this week had a theme: governments over-react ...
• 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 ...

VacTruth

• US Airman Developed Inflamed Heart After Smallpox ...
  In 2003, an airman proceeded to go to the emergency room eight days following the administration of a smallpox vaccine. It was determined the airman developed myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart, as a consequence of the smallpox vaccination.Vactruth.com
• The Saga of Andy Wakefield Continues…
  The recent attacks against Dr. Andrew Wakefield are the latest battles in a failed attempt to preserve the international vaccine agenda.Vactruth.com
• FDA Duped Into Approving Fake Product for Human Te ...
  An Independent Review Board approved fake product. How did this happen?Vactruth.com
• Vaccine Damaged Kids and the Media Attack on Dr. A ...
  How do you reveal and trace the REAL source behind the Dr. Any Wakefield witch-hunt? Follow the money.Vactruth.com
• Vaccine Induced Child Abuse Exposed
  Many parents falsely accused of child abuse are convinced that their child has been injured by a routine childhood vaccination.vactruth.com

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

• The California Sink-Hole: Budget Cutting Doesn’t W ...
  By Harley Schlanger Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 21, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 3
• ‘Economist’ Announces: A Big Mideast War Coming in ...
  By Jeffrey Steinberg and Michele Steinberg Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 21, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 3
• LaRouche: ‘Who’s Eating You?’ The World Food Crisi ...
  By Marcia Merry Baker Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 21, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 3
• Berwick, Blair, Hitler & Obama: The Death of Londo ...
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 21, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 3
• The January 22 Address (Notes): The State of the U ...
  EIR News Service press release. By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

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

• By: Top 50 Global Food Security Blogs
  [...] Food and Water Watch: Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable. [...]
• By: Online Degree 30 Best Water Conservation Blogs
  [...] Food & Water Watch: The Food & Water Watch site advocates strong conservation measures, promoting policies that'll result in quality drinking water for everyone. [...]
• By: Food and Water | Roland's Ramblings
  [...] would also like to suggest you go over to read the blog of Food & Water Watch. You should find that to be very [...]
• By: Ecocentric’s Best of the Ecoblogosphere ...
  [...] Food and Water Watch: The latest info about food and agriculture policy from our favorite beltway insiders. [...]
• By: FutureEmergency.com
  [...] elected officials across the region. He’ll be blogging from the road every day of the trip, so check back in with us to find out what’s he’s up to each [...]

treehugger

• Would You Drink Milk from a Papier-Mache Bottle?
  Photo: facebook/greenbottle Since the average plastic bottle takes 500 years to decompose, more solutions to this rapidly growing landfill crisis are needed, quickly. An English inventor has come up with a sturdy papier-mache bottle that can be recycled or composted. Local Suffolk dairies a ...
• Sustainable Stuff: Gift Fair Showcases Green and H ...
  Mango wood: the new bamboo? Fast-growing sustainable hardwood used for bowls to tables. Mentos wrapper bowls, mango wood tables, upcycled hydrogardens, Haitian textiles, and 2,800 other exhibitors' products are on display at the International Gift Fair this weekend at New York City's Javits Cen ...
• Lower the Thermostat to Lower 60s, Lose Weight!
  Photo: Flickr/C Jill Reed Super-sized meals and sedentary living don't seem to be the only contributing fat-factors present in American and UK lifestyles. New research published in the journal Obesity Reviews points to a link in increasing average indoor temperatures over the last several decad ...
• Power Drill Or Hand Drill, Which Is Better?
  Image credit:Amazon, for about US$120. My Milwaukee 12V, 3/8" electric drill (pictured) is extremely handy for infrequent home repairs and bench-top projects. This and similar rechargeable drills have light weight Li-Ion batteries that hold a charge for weeks. My Milwaukee has the entire juic ...
• Feed Your PC Granola (the Software) to Cut Energy ...
  Photo Credit: Average Jane, Flickr. Granola can be a good source of fiber, and granola can be used as another word for Treehugger. Then there's grano.la. Notice the dot. It's a software program developed by a Virginia Tech prof with a TV star name and a graduate student with a fantastic mustache. ...

Biosingularity

• Diets Low In Omega-3 Linked to Depressive Behavior ...
  Although most people in developed countries get plenty of calories each day, their diets are often lacking in key nutrients that their bodies have evolved to expect. Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, such as those found in fish and walnuts, are one category of crucial ingredients that the body ca ...
• 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 ...

CFACT

• National Geographic's sea level rise projections w ...
  National Geographic made a serious error when it said that a 1-m sea level rise could occur if the polar ice caps melted.
• Is the world food chain stretched to the limit?
  The U.S. could ease the current global food price spike with one administrative action--limiting the amount of U.S. corn that gets turned into corn ethanol.
• A step-change in Earth's climate outlook?
  As Britain suffers through its third straight harsh winter, a British watchdog group is calling for an inquiry into the failed recent long-range weather forecasts of the British Meteorological Office.
• Driving US families into fuel poverty
  Will America learn in time from the price being paid by British companies and families?
• EPA’s Texas power grab
  Hollywood climate monsters are a lousy basis for energy and economic policy.

Ria Novosti Online News

• Egypt's Mubarak has no plans to flee country - pap ...
  Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak does not intend to go abroad for "a medical examination" amid public unrest in the Islamic country, a newspaper quoted the presidential administration as saying on Monday.
• Renault-Nissan-AvtoVAZ to open assembly line in Fa ...
  The Renault-Nissan-AvtoVAZ motor alliance is considering opening a vehicle-assembly factory in Russia's Far East, Primorye Governor Sergei Darkin said Monday.
• Russian court reviews Novatek shareholder suit aga ...
  A Moscow court continued on Monday to review a libel suit against outspoken Kremlin critics Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Milov, filed by Russian businessman Gennady Timchenko.
• Kazakhstan to hold early presidential elections - ...
  Kazakhstan will hold presidential elections earlier than scheduled, the country's long-serving president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, said.
• Kazakhstan to hold early presidential elections - ...
  Kazakhstan will hold presidential elections earlier than scheduled, the country's long-serving president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, said.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Ukraine needs fewer universities - education minis ...
  Ukrainian Education Minister Dmitriy Tabachnyk has criticized the country's higher education system, saying that the number of universities in Ukraine should be decreased.
• Russian space freighter Progress M-09M docks with ...
  A Russian cargo spacecraft, Progress M-09M, docked on Sunday with the International Space Station (ISS).
• Russian space freighter Progress M-09M docks with ...
• State companies should boost hi-tech investment - ...
  Russian state-run companies should increase investment in hi-tech technologies and step up cooperation with the scientific research sector, a presidential aide said on Friday.
• Russian cargo spacecraft Progress M-09M blasts off ...
  A Russian cargo spacecraft, Progress M-09M, lifted off toward the International Space Station (ISS) at 4:32 Moscow time [1:32 GMT] on Friday.

Pruning Shears

• This Week in Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for these soldiers. I wonder how many US troops have to die in a single incident for it to receive saturation ...
• 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

• World Economic Forum: UN Chief Calls for 'Clean En ...
  "Revolutionary action" is needed to achieve sustainable development, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today told the government and business leaders at World Economic Forum in Davos. The UN chief issued an urgent warning that the past century's heedless consumption of resources is "a global suicide ...
• USDA Deregulates GE Alfalfa; Opens Door to New Era ...
  "Revolutionary action" is needed to achieve sustainable development, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today told the government and business leaders at World Economic Forum in Davos. The UN chief issued an urgent warning that the past century's heedless consumption of resources is "a global suicide ...
• 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 ...

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

• Again Ethanol and Food are in Conflict
  Corn prices have risen dramatically in the last 6 months and now food prices are following. This may be driving revolutions world-wide. And it will affect your grocery shopping soon.
• 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 ...

Norwegianity

• Spinning links
  Hillary’s not dumb. When she says the U.S. is not pushing for Mubarak’s ouster, that just encourages Egyptians to depose him. No sane people’s movement anywhere on this planet wants to do what the U.S. wants them to do. - Lost in the hubbub of Republican caterwauling over the budget, Gov. Moonbeam c ...
• Screederific
  Shorter takes: Gary Fine on Egypt: If you stonewall peace forever and let your intelligence services run amok, you will eventually destabilize all your neighbors thereby proving you were right not to trust them with peace. Katherine Kersten on young men: it’s not their fault when they act out in unC ...
• Experts on what you should have done
  I’m not terribly fond of drive-by comments. You know the kind, someone who’s never been to your blog before reacts vehemently to something you’ve written. My drive-by commenters all too often offer no facts and are overreacting to casual remarks, but I do try to respond to them when they’ve put some ...
• Did you know?
  I’ve been floundering between ignoring politics and getting sucked back in, but what I really meant to say all along has just neatly been enumerated by Barbara Ehrenreich. The most important step? Number one: #1 Donât talk, write or argue about Obama, who has proved himself irrelevant to the progres ...
• 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 ...

Public News Service

• Western States Elk Hunters See Advantages to BLM " ...
  Western States Elk Hunters See Advantages to BLM "Wild Lands" Policy Phoenix, AZ – The U.S. Department of Interior's revised policy on wild lands is drawing mixed reactions - but at least one group of hunters sees it as a positive move. Comments from Jim Gonzales, spokesperson for the Rocky Mountain ...
• Groundbreaking Progress in Helping MS Patients
  Groundbreaking Progress in Helping MS Patients Phoenix, AZ – It's being called 'promising research in neurological diseases' that may offer hope for multiple sclerosis patients in Arizona and across the nation. In research funded by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, scientists may have uncove ...
• A Weighty Message for Arizonans: Obesity Linked to ...
  A Weighty Message for Arizonans: Obesity Linked to Cancer Phoenix, AZ – Up to one-third of Arizona’s 11,000 annual cancer deaths could potentially linked to obesity, according to the American Cancer Society. During this week's National Healthy Weight Week, the ACS is encouraging people to manage the ...
• AZ Food Banks: Demand Remains at Record Levels
  AZ Food Banks: Demand Remains at Record Levels Phoenix, AZ – 2010 saw another record increase in demand for emergency food boxes from the state’s food banks. But because of federal aid and generous donations, the food banks are mostly keeping up with that demand. Comments from Ginny Hildebrand (HILL ...
• Vigil for Civility Held as AZ Legislature Begins S ...
  Vigil for Civility Held as AZ Legislature Begins Session Phoenix, AZ – Politics took a back seat at the State Capitol Monday, as Governor Brewer and most lawmakers concentrated on offering their condolences and prayers for the victims of Saturday’s Tucson shootings. Outside, a vigil to restore civil ...

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

• The Crisis in Haiti
  'Baby Doc' Duvalier charged with corruption in Haiti | World news | The Guardian Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier was charged with corruption and the theft of his country's meagre funds last night after the former Haitian dictator was hauled before a judge in Port-au-Prince Two days after his return ...
• 75-Year Prison Sentence for Taping the Police? The ...
  75-Year Prison Sentence for Taping the Police? The Absurd Laws That Criminalize Audio and Video Recording in America | Civil Liberties | AlterNet: "Likewise, Moore, a 20-year-old Southside resident, did not know it was illegal to record a conversation she had with two police officers last August, an ...
• NYC Local of the Socialist Party USA: A Socialist ...
  NYC Local of the Socialist Party USA: A Socialist Response to the State of the Union: "A Call for More Corporate Globalization The President’s focus on “out competing” other countries, such as China and India, is a thinly veiled attempt to appeal to national patriotism made in order to disguise his ...
• Sick Sick Sick & OUTRAGEOUS- Fraternity Throws Pil ...
  Sick Sick Sick & OUTRAGEOUS- Fraternity Throws Pilgrims & Ndn party at UCIrvine on BJ Tuininga's TwitWall The American Indian Student Association at University of California Irvine (UCI) is asking for your support and solidarity with us in regards to an event that occurred on November 23, 2010. In l ...
• W.E. A.L.L. B.E.: "War Is A Racket" By Gen. Smedle ...
  W.E. A.L.L. B.E.: "War Is A Racket" By Gen. Smedley Butler: "Take our own case. Until 1898 we didn't own a bit of territory outside the mainland of North America. At that time our national debt was a little more than $1,000,000,000. Then we became 'internationally minded.' We forgot, or shunted asid ...

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

• Chinese New Year Celebration
  Australia’s Chinese inhabitants celebrate the Chinese New Year with various parades, markets and even a Dragon boat race. In 2011, the Year of the Rabbit, celebrations take place between the 28 January and 13 February. Everyone, regardless of nationality, is invited to join in the public ce ...
• Environmental News 28/01/2011
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• Slow Food - an antidote to fast food and fast life
  Slow Food, a network between grower and eater, agriculture and market, community and world…
• Go Green – Reuse Coffee Grounds
  Green Tips on how to reuse those spent coffee grounds – you’ll be surprised at how many uses there are!
• Environmental News 24/01/2011
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Fighter jets swoop over Cairo protests in show of ...
  ShareThisFighter jets swoop over Cairo protests in show of force 30 Jan 2011 Fighter jets swooped low over Cairo Sunday in what appeared to be an attempt by the military to show its control of a city beset by looting, armed robbery and anti-government protests. Minutes before the start of a 4 p.m. c ...
• Two El-AL planes carrying 400 Israelis return from ...
  ShareThisTwo El-AL planes carrying 400 Israelis return from Cairo 31 Jan 2011 Two El-Al planes containing 400 Israelis arrived at Ben-Gurion Airport from Cairo on Monday morning. The Israelis waited in the Cairo airport for over 16 hours, before their flight was able to depart safely. Egypt’s most p ...
• Guantanamo inmates stage sit-ins, demos
  ShareThisGuantanamo inmates stage sit-ins, demos 28 Jan 2011 Guantanamo detainees prisoners have been holding daily peaceful protests against the jail's continued existence, despite pledges from US President Barack Obama to shut it down, a lawyer said Friday. Lawyer Ramzi Kassem said he had learned ...
• Charter flights to carry thousands of US citizens ...
  ShareThisCharter flights to carry thousands of US citizens out of Egypt 30 Jan 2011 Charter flights that begin Monday will ferry the first of thousands of US citizens away from the escalating crisis in Egypt, the State Department said. "We will keep running the charter flights until we get [all] peo ...
• Minot killer of four at large: police
  ShareThisMinot killer of four at large: police --'There are many things we still don't know.' 30 Jan 2011 A man whose killing spree left a mother, her two teenage children, and her boyfriend shot to death in Minot, North Dakota, Friday afternoon, remained at large on Sunday, authorities said. "This ...

Daily Loaf

• Cynical And Southern: 950 albums that made a diffe ...
  I never believed in God but I’ve always believed in music. From the moment I heard “Heart Of Glass” by Blondie when I was three years old I was hooked. In my spare time I've reviewed 950 albums that made a difference in my life.
• Do It Today: Spatial Agnosia at Centre Gallery
  Centre Gallery's latest exhibit, Spatial Agnosia, makes us think about the spaces between, within and around us.
• Amanpour ahead of her Sunday morning brethren in r ...
  This story will continue to be the biggest in the world for at least the next few days, perhaps until Hosni Mubarek realizes he can't stay on any longer and resigns - or digs in, which means there could be considerable bloodshed ahead.
• Eat Less Chikin: The LGBT Chik-fil-A boycott
  I choose where to spend my money. And when it comes to fast food, I've got plenty of options. So now I can cross one of those options off my list.
• The Green Community week in review: SOTU clean ene ...
  Read what you might have missed last week in CL's Green Community.

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

• Do The Creep, it’s sure to impress the ladies!
  Some Sunday night silliness by The Lonely Island Featuring Nicki Minaj. Intro by John Waters
• How to filter State Department propaganda
  What Hillary says vs. what she actually means. A useful primer indeed. Israeli, Saudi and American leaders say Arabs are not ready for democracy It goes without saying that the hostility of the State Department and our “allies” in the War on Terror Israel and Saudi Arabia towards democracy in Egypt ...
• Financial links 1/30
  How can the architects of the crisis investigate it? Food speculation: ‘People die from hunger while banks make a killing on food’ Bailout watchdog probes suspected tarp fraud at 64 banks New York prosecutor Vance seeks mandatory jail terms for securities frauds Bank Of America stops issuing notices ...
• Headline of the Day
  Protests in Egypt cause market to take it in the Sphinxter
• Egypt cries freedom
  It has long been axiomatic that revolutions occur when the ruling class cannot continue to rule in the old way and the masses refuse to live in the old way. Events currently taking place throughout the Arab world bear this out. At time of writing Hosni Mubarak’s regime is teetering on the brink, but ...

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

• This Day In History – January 31
  1606 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England. 1848 – John C. Fremont is court-martialed on grounds of mutiny and disobeying orders. 1849 – Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom (following legislation in 1846). 1865 – The United Stat ...
• ‘Loose Change’ filmmaker charged with ...
  ONEONTA — “Loose Change” filmmaker Korey H. Rowe, 27, of Oneonta, was one of two people arrested in Oneonta on Thursday and charged with sale of heroin, Oneonta police said. Rowe and Daniel Marte Jr., 19, of the Bronx, were arrested after the two allegedly sold seven packets of heroin in the city to ...
• Lastest Edition of “Blood & Guts” (Jac ...
  1/26/11 Blood & Guts with Meria Heller & Jack Blood Free Show here DOWNLOAD HERE Issues fly fast on furious on this Monthly show! On this latest edition we discuss: SOTU or STFU? Using the shooting in Tucson to the bi-partisan theatrical presentation; Obama-will he make us pine for a Jeb for Preside ...
• Cousin Barry / The Obama Fraud: Welcome Back to Re ...
• Overthrow: CT Guard detachment is heading to Egypt
  Theday.com 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. The unit left Connecticut Jan. 15 for Fort Benning, Ga., for further training and v ...

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

• ISA 2011: Photos from Inside Social Apps InFocus 2 ...
  We held Inside Social Apps InFocus 2011 — our conference on growth and monetization in the social apps ecosystem — this past week in San Francisco. The event saw a great turnout by attendees and speakers from around the world, and featured some lively on-stage discussion. Check out some photos from ...
• This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games
  Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games â tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Monday, January 24th, 2011 Pinball and Social Games Ravenwood Fair, Boyaa’s Texas Hold’Em on This Week’s List of Top Gainers by MAU Fa ...
• Highlights This Week from the Inside Network Job B ...
  The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Meteor Games and Facebook. 2d Artist w/ Flash Experience (Beverly ...
• 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 ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: TomGram: Robert Lipsyte, the Empire Bowl ...
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• truthout: ElBaradei, Muslim Brotherhood Offer Poli ...
  truthout: ElBaradei, Muslim Brotherhood Offer Political Path Out of Egyptian Confrontation http://bit.ly/ebdxdc #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: Clinton Urges Diplomacy With Mubarak, Ne ...
  truthout: Clinton Urges Diplomacy With Mubarak, New Government http://bit.ly/fMvtvK #Truthout #p2 #p2b

ReDress News

• US ammunition tells its own story in Egypt
  Yvonne Ridley reminds us that it is US support, and US politicians putting Israel's interests above those of their own country, that has allowed dictators such as Hosni Mubarak of Egypt to desecrate the Arab world with their existence for so long.
• USA must free itself from Israel or face the conse ...
  Gilad Atzmon looks at how the US’s Israel-driven policy in the Middle East is unravelling with the impending fall of its key vassal, Egypt’s Husni Mubarak. He argues that the only way forward for the USA is to start pursuing its own national interests, not those of Israel – which it can do only if i ...
• US ambassador’s bid to get Richard Falk sacked fro ...
  Stuart Littlewood exposes the US Israel lobby’s role in the campaign against the UN Human Rights Council's special rapporteur in the Palestinian territories, Richard Falk, and takes a look at the relationship between one of Falk’s leading detractors, US ambassador to the UN Susan Rice, and Israel.
• 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 ...

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!
  Why do they hate us? Is it really that hard to understand? 1st collector for I understand and now you do, too!Follow my videos on vodpod
• I understand, now you do too!
  A lot of people ask the question, why do they hate us so? This trailer from a new movie explains it in simple terms, it is a sociologist outlining the thinking that has emerge around the world in their views of the Empire. As with every Empire that has ever existed, conquered people will never [...]
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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

• Egypt in Revolt - The Egypt Crisis in a Global Con ...
  It is not at all clear what will happen in the Egyptian revolution. It is not a surprise that this is happening. Hosni Mubarak has been president for more than a quarter of a century, ever since the assassination of Anwar Sadat. He is old and has been ill. No one expected him to live much longer, an ...
• Egypt in Revolt - Egypt’s Security Forces are the ...
  The current wave of protests in Egypt has pitted thousands of demonstrators against the police and Central Security Forces (CSF). The performance of these forces is key to the outcome of the crisis. If they can contain the demonstrations without excessive violence, the protests will likely burn them ...
• Crisis in Egypt - Days of Rage in Egypt and an End ...
  Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak remains the target of the demonstrators, who still number in the tens of thousands in downtown Cairo and in other major cities, albeit on a lesser scale. After being overwhelmed in the January 28 Day of Rage protests, Egypt’s internal security forces — with the anti- ...
• The Edge of Fracking - Philadelphia is Latest City ...
  As the federal government continues to study a controversial gas drilling technique and the states tinker with their own regulations, some cities and towns are trying to halt local drilling. Philadelphia became the latest to do that on January 28, when city officials called for at least a temporary ...
• Inside Africa - 2011 May Be the Year of Africa
  January, 2011, has seen Africa in the world headlines more than usual; but these are not just “news events”, here today, forgotten tomorrow.The countries affected by the “Jasmine Revolution” unfolding in North Africa: Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt –and Yemen just across the sea- have something in common, ...

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

• A Manifesto For Change In Egypt
  By Mohamed ElBaradei In Egypt, as in Tunisia, there are other forces than just the president and the people. The army has been quite neutral so far, and I would expect it to remain that way. The soldiers and officers are part of the Egyptian people. They know the frustrations. They want to protect ...
• Egyptian Youth And New Dawn Hopes
  By Firas Al-AtraqchiFor young Egyptians, long-dormant patriotism and pride have been finally awakened
• A People Defies Its Dictator, And A Nations Future ...
  By Robert FiskIt might be the end. It is certainly the beginning of the end. Across Egypt, tens of thousands of Arabs braved tear gas, water cannons, stun grenades and live fire yesterday to demand the removal of Hosni Mubarak after more than 30 years of dictatorship
• Middle East Intifadas
  By Stephen Lendman Initially in Tunisia, popular revolt spread regionally across North Africa and the Middle East, erupting in Algeria, Jordan, Egypt and Yemen
• Worsening Food Crisis Is Leading To Political Uphe ...
  By Devinder SharmaIn the midst of the chaos being witnessed across the Arab world -- Tunisia, Algeria and now Egypt -- what is being missed out is the role food inflation has played in triggering these protests

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

• Flash: Egyptian "Moderate Democratic" Leader al-Ba ...
  �By Barry Rubin As I've been warning, Muhammed al-Baradei, seen as the leading "moderate, pro-democratic" leader in Egypt is negotiating with the Muslim Brotherhood to form a national unity government. That doesn't mean the negotiations will succeed but it gives a clear glimpse of what a post- ...
• Media Matters Blames Jews For Egyptian Crisis, Run ...
  The George Soros funded Media Matters has been waging a months-long attack on Glenn Beck trying to brand the commentator as a card carrying anti-Semite. Perhaps before making false charges against Beck, Media Matters should examine its own house of cards.� In a column published today on Media Matt ...
• Special Report: The Revolt in Egypt and U.S. Polic ...
  By Barry Rubin There is no good policy for the United States regarding the uprising in Egypt but the Obama Administration may be adopting something close to the worst option. This is its first real international crisis. And it seems to be adopting a policy that, while somewhat balanced, is�p ...
• 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 ...

The Real Agenda

• Fluoride: A Worldwide Campaign to End Exposure
  Fluoride: A Statement of Concern by Paul Connett, PhD continues from part 2 51. In 1995, Dr. Phyllis Mullenix resisted an enormous amount of political pressure to publish her investigation of the impact of fluoride on rat behavior (61). In her work she found that fluoride concentrated in the brain a ...
• ‘Order’ out of Chaos in Egypt
  United States-backed globalist puppet ready to become the hero of the revolution Paul Joseph Watson infowars.com January 29, 2011 The revolt in Egypt is an organically driven people-power movement to oust a dictator, restore universal freedoms, and wrestle the country free from the clutches of the U ...
• U.S. Secretely Backs Rebel Leaders in Egypt
  Egyptian uprising and “regime change” has been in the works for the past three years with the support of the U.S. Government Telegraph The American Embassy in Cairo helped a young dissident attend a US-sponsored summit for activists in New York, while working to keep his identity secret from Egyptia ...
• 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 [.. ...

Wind Watch

• Proposed wind restrictions would be strictest in n ...
  The head of a wind industry trade group and a lobbyist for the Wisconsin Realtors Association squared off over Gov. Scott Walker�s wind farm siting proposals. Denise Bode, chief executive of the American Wind Energy Association weighed in Friday on Wisconsin�s proposed wind-siting rule, calling it � ...
• Windfarm would pose threat to rare bird, warns exp ...
  One of the UK�s rarest birds could be in jeopardy if a major windfarm development in a picturesque part of Inverness-shire is given the go-ahead, a public meeting has heard. About 150 people attended a meeting at Kiltarlity Village Hall to discuss proposals for a 28-turbine windfarm on land between ...
• Customers face huge bill for wind farms that don&# ...
  The failure of Britain�s wind farms to produce electricity in the extreme cold will cost billions of pounds, create an economic crisis and lead to blackouts, leading industrialists have warned. To cover up the ineffectiveness of wind farms the Government will be forced to build emergency back-up pow ...
• Wind turbines divide Dutch
  Residents of a small fishing village in The Netherlands are protesting a plan for building wind turbines that they believe would radically change the look of the community. The Dutch government has given permission for building 86 wind turbines on towers near the scenic village of Urk that would con ...
• Marin wind power test site gets blowback from envi ...
  The proposal was for two thin towers, 197 feet tall and 10 inches in diameter at their base, on two remote west Marin ridgelines, a mile and a half apart and northeast of Dillon Beach. With meteorological testing gear, digital transmitters and a small solar panel mounted to each tower, the temporary ...

Not My Tribe

• Babykiller in the docks…
  The first to come to trial over the murder of Raul and Briseña Flores. Briseña was 9 years old. Begged for her fathers life, then her own… IN ENGLISH. Yeah, Minute-pukes, Tea-Potties, she was an American child. Shawna Forde, the leader of the merry band of murderers, her hearing began yesterday. T ...
• Mad-ministration scared now…
  Tunisia, Lebanon, now Cairo. They’re said to be the lynchpins in “Middle East Peace” meaning Pox Americana. Somehow ONLY the U.S. is capable of determning peace terms WTF? Maybe there IS a huge disconnect in perception here in America. (Ok, “maybe” is just being polite) but going around conquering n ...
• Petition Sallie Clark not to groom Czeladtko campa ...
  Conflict of interest, anyone? County Commissioner is one of those “low paid” jobs in local government which pays off hugely in graft money, if one is so disposed to take advantage of that opportunity, by voting tax breaks, zoning laws (enforced at Public Expense) and other Pork-barrel subsidies for ...
• PA heads ain’t gonna roll themselves
• The sinking of Judea, aka the Palestine
  In his novel Youth, Joseph Conrad wrote about a doomed coal steamer named “Judea.”   A propos of nothing much (Conrad’s theme was not solely about hubris), the story was based on events in Conrad’s own life and his early maritime experiences on a ship which was actually called “Palestine.”

Debunking the Debunkers

• The Reading Comprehension of Debunkers...
  ...never ceases to amaze me. Youtuber "TheSkepticalIdealist" recently commented on my video "Demolition Expert Debunks the Debunkers" and tried to misrepresent the expertise of Tom Sullivan. I pointed out to him that Sullivan's position at CDI was not just a photographer, but also a Powder Carrie ...
• More predictive programming...
  Remember the 2001 Lone Gunmen pilot episode that predicted 9/11? Remember the 2004 BBC Panorama program that predicted 7/7? Remember the 2005 TV docudrama Oil Storm that predicted Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans? Remember the 2009 Nicholas Cage movie Knowing that predicted the G ...
• Eight NWO minions spouting the same twenty-year-ol ...
• Why do skeptics and debunkers passionately defend ...
  Just browsing through some old SLC posts, I came across this one from 2007: The Reichstag Fire Was Not An Inside Job!. I always thought the truth about the Reichstag fire was common knowledge, although I do remember scanning through a JREF post when LC:AAC was released which tried to debunk the bit ...
• Action! Support Professor Richard Falk
  Thanks to Fran Shure at colorado911visibility.org for passing this along. Call to Action! TO: Citizens of the World Working for Peace ACTION NEEDED: Protest the Condemnation of Professor Richard Falk, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian terri ...

Fooducate

• The Anatomy of a Dorito, Part 2
  Last week we talked about Cool Ranch Doritos and how with 34 ingredients, you can’t expect a healthy snack. Yesterday we got an email from Lindsey, who pointed out a discrepancy in another Doritos product – Nacho Cheese: How can the package say “0 Trans Fat” when the ingredient list contains partial ...
• M & M’s Deconstructed
  If you’ve visited New York’s Times Square lately, you may have encountered M&M’s World. It’s a three floor temple celebrating all things small, round, chocolaty, and brightly colored. The brand, owned by Mars, has been around since the early 1940’s and has become part of our childhood and popular cu ...
• 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 ...

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

• Unique new photos of uncontacted Brazilian Indians
  The photos reveal a thriving, healthy community with baskets full of manioc and papaya fresh from their gardens. © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival New photos obtained by Survival show uncontacted Indians in never-seen-before detail. The Indians are living in Brazil, near the Peruvian border, an ...
• 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 ...

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

• The PM's disappointing retreat on soaring fuel cos ...
  Telegraph View: Mr Cameron says a promised fuel tax stabiliser has turned into a 'difficult issue', but this is not so.
• Petrol prices to hit £6 a gallon
  Petrol could hit new record price as the price of oil on the world markets climbed higher following Alaska oil spill.
• Petrol price fear as leak closes oil field
  Global oil prices could rise sharply today after BP and other oil companies were forced to shut down almost all production from North America's biggest field.
• Tiny village in West Sussex sitting on 'black gold ...
  A tiny village could be sitting on a half a billion dollars' worth of oil after a petroleum company announced the results of exploration in the unlikely oilfield in West Sussex.
• 'Systemic failures' to blame for BP Deepwater Hori ...
  "Systemic failures" by BP and other companies contributed to Deepwater Horizon spill, damning US inquiry finds.

Ian Welsh

• Isolate and concentrate costs
  Time Magazine has a piece that is analytically bizarre on the recent suicide bombing in a Kabul supermarket that is primarily used by Westerners and Afghans who are part of the small technocratic/bureaucratic class that could conceivably govern the nation in a quasi-Western manner: A suicide bomber ...
• Some Points About Egypt
  1) the timing for Davos of both revolutions is… interesting.  One might think a message is being sent. 2) the Iranians have been putting money into the rural areas of Egypt.  Specifically into clinics.  Since the Egyptians are American clients, they can’t break drug patent laws, the Iranians are ...
• Isolate and concentrate costs
  Time Magazine has a piece that is analytically bizarre on the recent suicide bombing in a Kabul supermarket that is primarily used by Westerners and Afghans who are part of the small technocratic/bureaucratic class that could conceivably govern the nation in a quasi-Western manner: A suicide bomber ...
• Some Points About Egypt
  1) the timing for Davos of both revolutions is… interesting.  One might think a message is being sent. 2) the Iranians have been putting money into the rural areas of Egypt.  Specifically into clinics.  Since the Egyptians are American clients, they can’t break drug patent laws, the Iranians are ...
• 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 ...

Age of Autism

• Paul Offit and the “Original Sin” of Autism
  By J.B. Handley OK, let me be clear: I think Paul Offit is a blowhard liar, a vaccine profiteer and apologist, and every time he opens his mouth he disrespects my son. When the final chapter is finally written on...
• Autism One/Generation Rescue Conference Announces ...
  Managing Editor's Note: Big news from our friends at Autism One and Generation Rescue. Hope to see you in Chicago this May! Hello! We have a gift from our family to your family. The headline says it all. This year's...
• New Vaccine Approaches Clinical Trial Phase: NoThi ...
  By Donna Laken In an effort to combat the public's growing fear of vaccines, researchers at the East coast-based pharmaceutical company, SafeAsfar Azyouno, are in the final stages of developing a new vaccine against critical thinking. The vaccine inventors predict...
• Say Hello to James "I'm an Artist" Frye - 16 Year ...
  Managing Editor's Note: Please say hello to 16 year old James Frye and his family. James' art is available for sale and we hope you'll consider supporting his work, and sharing his story with friends and family. You can purchase...
• Thank you for Supporting Age of Autism
  We've updated our thank you gift for donating to Age of Autism. When you donate, if you will kindly give us your mailing address in the PayPal "info" area, we'll send you this indoor/outdoor 4 x 6" magnet for your...

Global BDS Movement

• On the Second Anniversary of Israel’s Bloodbath in ...
  Occupied Palestine, 27 December 2010 – On the morning of 27 December 2008 Israeli forces initiated a 23-day military offensive against the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip killing more than 1400 and injuring over 5000 Palestinians, predominantly civilians and refugees since 1948. read more
• Palestinian Civil Society reiterates call for a fu ...
  Occupied Palestine, 22 December 2010 - We, the undersigned Palestinian civil society organizations, including farmers’ unions, agricultural organizations and popular committees, reiterate the call of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) for a full boycott of Carmel-Agrexco due to its complic ...
• Derail Israel's Unlawful A1 Train Project– End Int ...
  Occupied Palestinian Territory, 16 December 2010 - Israel’s A1 high-speed train project designed to connect Jerusalem and Tel Aviv violates international humanitarian law and human rights law. The A1 rail project forms a component of Israel’s ongoing plans to cement its regime of occupation, colonia ...
• Australian BDS Movement Begins to Emerge
  By Phil Monsour read more
• Palestinian refugees and Israel's A1 rail project ...
  The A1 rail project constitutes yet another step in the i read more

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

• Protestors and government supporters clash in Yeme ...
  Google - SANAA â Dozens of activists calling for the ouster of Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh clashed on Saturday with the regime’s supporters in Sanaa, an AFP journalist reported. Plainclothes police also attacked the demonstrators who marched to the Egyptian embassy in Sanaa chanting “Ali, ...
• US National Guard detachment is heading to Egypt
  The Day – 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. The unit left Connecticut Jan. 15 for Fort Benning, Ga., for further training and validation. ...
• Egyptians Defiant as Military Does Little to Quash ...
  NYTimes – CAIRO â President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt struggled to maintain a tenuous hold on power on Saturday as the police withdrew from the major cities and the military did nothing to hold back tens of thousands of demonstrators defying a curfew to call for an end to his nearly 30 years of authori ...
• Afghans plan to end child police recruitment
  The Age – AFGHANISTAN was last night poised to sign a formal agreement with the United Nations to stop the recruitment of children into its police forces and ban the common practice of boys being used as sex slaves by military commanders, according to Afghan and UN officials. The effort by Afghanist ...
• UK consumer confidence suffers ‘astonishing ...
  Telegraph – Britons’ confidence in the economy and their finances has suffered its biggest drop in close to 20 years, raising fears that the Government’s austerity onslaught will set off a self-feeding downward spiral. The most closely-watched barometer of consumer confidence revealed an “astonishin ...

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Unirac, Canadian Solar To Build 30 Megawatts Of Renewable Energy In Ontario

TechCrunch

- Jan 31, 2011

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Ultimately, it's about taking the cost out of solar projects at any scale and making renewable energy competitive.” Unirac was backed by the Maryland-based, ...

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EU calls for double investment in renewable energy

Bloomberg

- Jan 31, 2011

- 2 hours ago

By AP BRUSSELS (AP) — Investment in renewable energy in the European Union has to be doubled to reach the target of having 20 percent of the region's ...

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Texas Wind, Solar And Renewable Institute Scheduled In February

The Metropolitan Coporate Counsel

- Jan 31, 2011

- 43 minutes ago

In the afternoon, Adam S. Umanoff of Chadbourne & Parke LLP will provide an update and report card on the federal renewable stimulus program one year later. ...

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Obama's Renewable Energy: What Happened to Global Warming?

The AtlanticWire (blog)

- Jan 31, 2011

- 53 minutes ago

This is a government mandate requiring that utilities produce annually a specific amount of their electricity from renewable sources—wind, solar, biofuels ...

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Officials report low levels of PCBs from derelict vessel

The Columbian

- Jan 30, 2011

- 13 hours ago

Washington State Dept. of Ecology received reports Thursday of a light, non-recoverable sheen at mile marker 115 on the Columbia River, the site of the ...

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Weis Ecology Center in Ringwood turning to outside consultant

NorthJersey.com

- Jan 30, 2011

- 8 hours ago

BY DONNA ROLANDO As Weis Ecology Center scales back to a three-season facility to tame a deficit, steps are underway to make this transformation as seamless ...

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Authorities work to clean up oil leaking from derelict ship in the Columbia River

OregonLive.com

- Jan 29, 2011

- Jan 29, 2011

The leak was discovered Thursday when the Washington Department of Ecology received reports of a light sheen extending into the Port of Vancouver, ...

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Games Host Broadcaster: Telepacifico

World Games Association

- Jan 31, 2011

- 38 minutes ago

... committed to stage 'green games' from 25 July through 4 August 2013, keeping their focus on the principles of ecology and sustainability at all times. ...

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Will increased water consumption flush excess sodium from the body?

Boston Globe

- Jan 31, 2011

- 7 hours ago

If I drink a lot of water, will that flush the sodium out of my system? A. “That would be nice, wouldn't it?'' says Jonathan Williams, a physician in the ...

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NH road to be repaved after water main break

Boston Herald

- Jan 31, 2011

- 1 hour ago

By AP SALEM, NH — Officials in the New Hampshire city of Salem say crews will be working on Tyler Road as they finish repairs needed after a water main ...

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China Shares End Up For 4th Session; Water, High-Speed Railway Firms Lead

Wall Street Journal

- Jan 31, 2011

- 5 hours ago

SHANGHAI (Dow Jones)--China's shares ended higher for the fourth consecutive session Monday, led by water conservation-related companies and high-speed ...

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Egyptians stock up on food, water as protests rage

The Associated Press

- Jan 31, 2011

- 5 hours ago

Now, like many other residents of the Egyptian capital, they're stocking up on bottled water and essential foodstuffs as chaos engulfs this sprawling city ...

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